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most citedHunting for Neighboring Open Clusters with Gaia DR3: 101 New Open Clusters within 500 pc

68 citations · 75 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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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

Selected open cluster sample for validating atmospheric parameters: Application to Gaia and other surveys

Tong Tang, Songmei Qin, Jing Zhong +2

Reliable stellar atmospheric parameters are essential for probing stellar structure and evolution, and for stellar population studies. However, various deviations appear in compari…

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.SR2024

On the Determination of Stellar Mass and Binary Fraction of Open Clusters within 500 pc from the Sun

Yueyue Jiang, Jing Zhong, Songmei Qin +3

We investigated the stellar mass function and the binary fraction of 114 nearby open clusters (OCs) using the high-precision photometric data from Gaia Data Release 3 (Gaia DR3). W…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 68 cited

Hunting for Neighboring Open Clusters with Gaia DR3: 101 New Open Clusters within 500 pc

Songmei Qin, Jing Zhong, Tong Tang +1

We systematically searched for open clusters in the solar neighborhood within 500 pc using pyUPMASK and HDBSCAN clustering algorithms based on {\it Gaia} DR3. Taking into considera…