Young massive star clusters

SF Portegies Zwart, SLW McMillan… - Annual review of …, 2010 - annualreviews.org
Young massive clusters (YMCs) are dense aggregates of young stars that form the
fundamental building blocks of galaxies. Several examples exist in the Milky Way Galaxy …

Milky Way Star Clusters and Gaia: A Review of the Ongoing Revolution

T Cantat-Gaudin - Universe, 2022 - mdpi.com
The unprecedented quality of the astrometric measurements obtained with the ESA Gaia
spacecraft have initiated a revolution in Milky Way astronomy. Studies of star clusters in …

Improving the open cluster census-II. An all-sky cluster catalogue with Gaia DR3

EL Hunt, S Reffert - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. Data from the Gaia satellite are revolutionising our understanding of the Milky Way.
With every new data release, there is a need to update the census of open clusters. Aims …

A Gaia DR2 view of the open cluster population in the Milky Way

T Cantat-Gaudin, C Jordi, A Vallenari… - Astronomy & …, 2018 - aanda.org
Context. Open clusters are convenient probes of the structure and history of the Galactic
disk. They are also fundamental to stellar evolution studies. The second Gaia data release …

Updated parameters of 1743 open clusters based on Gaia DR2

WS Dias, H Monteiro, A Moitinho… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
In this study, we follow up our recent paper (Monteiro et al.) and present a homogeneous
sample of fundamental parameters of open clusters in our Galaxy, entirely based on Gaia …

BANYAN. XI. The BANYAN Σ multivariate Bayesian algorithm to identify members of young associations with 150 pc

J Gagné, EE Mamajek, L Malo, A Riedel… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
BANYAN Σ is a new Bayesian algorithm to identify members of young stellar associations
within 150 pc of the Sun. It includes 27 young associations with ages in the range∼ 1–800 …

Clusters and mirages: cataloguing stellar aggregates in the Milky Way

T Cantat-Gaudin, F Anders - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2020 - aanda.org
Context. Many of the open clusters listed in modern catalogues were initially reported by
visual astronomers as apparent overdensities of bright stars. As observational techniques …

Fermi large area telescope third source catalog

F Acero, M Ackermann, M Ajello, A Albert… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the third Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) source catalog (3FGL) of sources in
the 100 MeV–300 GeV range. Based on the first 4 yr of science data from the Fermi Gamma …

Kinematics in young star clusters and associations with Gaia DR2

MA Kuhn, LA Hillenbrand, A Sills… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The Gaia mission has opened a new window into the internal kinematics of young star
clusters at the sub-km s− 1 level, with implications for our understanding of how star clusters …

Hunting for open clusters in Gaia DR2: 582 new open clusters in the Galactic disc

A Castro-Ginard, C Jordi, X Luri… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
Context. Open clusters are key targets for studies of Galaxy structure and evolution, and
stellar physics. Since the Gaia data release 2 (DR2), the discovery of undetected clusters …