3 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
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…