3 papers
astro-ph.SR2026
Open Clusters as Laboratories for Cool Star Evolution: Highlights from the Cool Stars 23 Splinter Session
Deepak Chahal, Beatrice Caccherano, Edward Gillen +16
Open clusters remain among the most powerful laboratories for calibrating how fundamental stellar properties such as rotation, magnetic activity, surface chemistry, and internal st…
astro-ph.SR2026
NGTS clusters survey - VI: Stellar rotation in seven young open clusters within the PLATO LOPS2 field
Alexander Hughes, Edward Gillen, Matthew Battley +18
We present NGTS measurements of rotation period distributions for FGKM stars in seven young open clusters spanning ~40--700 Myr within PLATO's first long-stare LOPS2 field. We meas…
astro-ph.SR2026
The Wonderful World of Binary Stars
Andrea Barone, Henri M. J. Boffin, Beatrice Caccherano +6
During the 2026 ESO La Silla Observing school, about twenty students attended lectures and performed observations to learn various aspects of observational astronomy. The school, w…