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most citedNew Open Cluster candidates Found in Galactic Disk Using Gaia DR2/EDR3 Data

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6 papers

astro-ph.SR2025

A catalog of new blue stragglers in open clusters with Gaia DR3

Songmei Qin, Jing Zhong, Friedrich Anders +6

The high-precision {\it Gaia} data release 3 (DR3) enables the discovery of numerous open clusters in the Milky Way, providing an excellent opportunity to search for blue straggler…

astro-ph.SR2025

Census of Blue Straggler Stars in Distant Open Clusters and Maximum Fractional Mass Excess of OC BSS

Qian Cui, Zhihong He, Shunhong Deng +4

We identified blue straggler stars (BSSs) in 53 open clusters utilizing data from Gaia DR3. Most of these clusters are situated in the outer regions of the Galactic disc, encompass…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 7 cited

Unveiling the Binary Nature of NGC 2323

Songmei Qin, Jing Zhong, Tong Tang +9

As a well-known open cluster, NGC 2323 (also called M50) has been widely investigated for over a hundred years and has always been considered a classical single cluster. In this wo…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 8 cited

A fast-rotating blue straggler star in the tidal tail of the open cluster NGC 752

Chunyan Li, Jing Zhong, Songmei Qin +3

NGC 752 is a famous Galactic open cluster of intermediate age. In recent works, a very long and asymmetric tail was newly revealed. A blue straggler star (BSS) at the periphery of…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 20 cited

The new detection of blue straggler stars in 50 open clusters using Gaia DR3

Chunyan Li, Jing Zhong, Songmei Qin +1

The particularly abundant presence of blue straggler stars (BSS) in Galactic open clusters offers favorable conditions for detailed studies on the statistical properties and the or…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 49 cited

New Open Cluster candidates Found in Galactic Disk Using Gaia DR2/EDR3 Data

Zhihong He, Chunyan Li, Jing Zhong +6

We report 541 new open cluster candidates in Gaia EDR3 through revisiting the cluster results from an earlier analysis of the Gaia DR2, which revealed nearly a thousand open cluste…