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Dynamical model of Praesepe and its tidal tails
L. Weis, C. West, A. Just +5
Context. The dynamical evolution of open clusters in the tidal field of the Milky Way and the feeding of the disc field star population depend strongly on the initial conditions at…
Global survey of star clusters in the Milky Way III. 139 new open clusters at high Galactic latitudes
S. Schmeja, N. V. Kharchenko, A. E. Piskunov +4
An earlier analysis of the Milky Way Star Cluster (MWSC) catalogue revealed an apparent lack of old (> 1 Gyr) open clusters in the solar neighbourhood (< 1 kpc). To fill this gap w…
Global survey of star clusters in the Milky Way II. The catalogue of basic parameters
N. V. Kharchenko, A. E. Piskunov, E. Schilbach +2
Although they are the main constituents of the Galactic disk population, for half of the open clusters in the Milky Way reported in the literature nothing is known except the raw p…
Towards a complete stellar mass function of the Hyades. I. Pan-STARRS1 optical observations of the low-mass stellar content
B. Goldman, S. Röser, E. Schilbach +16
The Hyades cluster is an ideal target to study the dynamical evolution of a star cluster over the entire mass range due to its intermediate age and proximity to the Sun. We wanted…
Global survey of star clusters in the Milky Way I. The pipeline and fundamental parameters in the second quadrant
N. V. Kharchenko, A. E. Piskunov, E. Schilbach +2
Aims: On the basis of the PPMXL star catalogue we performed a survey of star clusters in the second quadrant of the Milky Way. Methods: From the PPMXL catalogue of positions and pr…
The evolution of luminosity, colour and the mass-to-luminosity ratio of Galactic open clusters: comparison of discrete vs. continuous IMF models
A. E. Piskunov, N. V. Kharchenko, E. Schilbach +3
(abridged) We found in previous studies that standard Simple Stellar Population (SSP) models are unable to describe or explain the colours of Galactic open clusters both in the vis…
Why Simple Stellar Population models do not reproduce the colours of Galactic open clusters
A. E. Piskunov, N. V. Kharchenko, E. Schilbach +3
(...) We search for an explanation of the disagreement between the observed integrated colours of 650 local Galactic clusters and the theoretical colours of present-day SSP models.…