3 papers
astro-ph.SR2026
The Montreal Open Clusters and Associations (MOCA) Database: A Census of Nearby Associations, Open Clusters, and Young Substellar Objects within 500 pc of the Sun
Jonathan Gagné, Leslie Moranta, Jacqueline K. Faherty +10
We present the Montreal Open Clusters and Associations database (MOCAdb), a public MySQL database with a Python interface. MOCAdb provides a census of memberships for 10259 associa…
astro-ph.SR2026
Measuring Rotation Periods in Crowded Star Clusters with TESS: A Proof-of-Concept with NGC 3532
Matthew S. Stafford, Jason L. Curtis, Marcel A. Agüeros
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has observed nearly the entire sky, producing full-frame images (FFIs) every 30 min (Cycles 12), 10 min (Cycles 34), and now…
astro-ph.GA2025
Evidence for a Catastrophically Disrupted Open Cluster
Alexis N. Miller, Kyle R. Tregoning, Jeff J. Andrews +5
Of the many discoveries uncovered by the Gaia astrometric mission, some of the most exciting are related to nearby dispersed stellar structures. We analyze one such structure in th…