New atlas of open star clusters
Due to numerous new discoveries of open star clusters in the last two decades, astronomers need an easy-touse resource to get visual information on the relative position of clusters in the sky. Therefore we propose a new atlas of open star clusters. It is based on a table compiled from the largest m...
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| author | Seleznev Anton F. Avvakumova Ekaterina Kulesh Maxim Filina Julia Tsaregorodtseva Polina Kvashnina Alvira |
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| description | Due to numerous new discoveries of open star clusters in the last two decades, astronomers need an easy-touse resource to get visual information on the relative position of clusters in the sky. Therefore we propose a new atlas of open star clusters. It is based on a table compiled from the largest modern cluster catalogues. The atlas shows the positions and sizes of 3291 clusters and associations, and consists of two parts. The first contains 108 maps of 12 by 12 degrees with an overlapping of 2 degrees in three strips along the Galactic equator. The second one is an online web application, which shows a square field of an arbitrary size, either in equatorial coordinates or in galactic coordinates by request. The atlas is proposed for the sampling of clusters and cluster stars for further investigation. Another use is the identification of clusters among overdensities in stellar density maps or among stellar groups in images of the sky. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8ed7a362e91f4641bfe68df379ee7e0d2022-12-21T21:36:05ZengDe GruyterOpen Astronomy2543-63762017-11-01261808710.1515/astro-2017-0023astro-2017-0023New atlas of open star clustersSeleznev Anton F.0Avvakumova Ekaterina1Kulesh Maxim2Filina Julia3Tsaregorodtseva Polina4Kvashnina Alvira5Astronomical Observatory, UrFU, Mira str. 19, Ekaterinburg, 620002, Russian FederationUrFU, Yekaterinburg, Russian FederationUrFU, Yekaterinburg, Russian FederationUrFU, Yekaterinburg, Russian FederationUrFU, Yekaterinburg, Russian FederationUrFU, Yekaterinburg, Russian FederationDue to numerous new discoveries of open star clusters in the last two decades, astronomers need an easy-touse resource to get visual information on the relative position of clusters in the sky. Therefore we propose a new atlas of open star clusters. It is based on a table compiled from the largest modern cluster catalogues. The atlas shows the positions and sizes of 3291 clusters and associations, and consists of two parts. The first contains 108 maps of 12 by 12 degrees with an overlapping of 2 degrees in three strips along the Galactic equator. The second one is an online web application, which shows a square field of an arbitrary size, either in equatorial coordinates or in galactic coordinates by request. The atlas is proposed for the sampling of clusters and cluster stars for further investigation. Another use is the identification of clusters among overdensities in stellar density maps or among stellar groups in images of the sky.https://doi.org/10.1515/astro-2017-0023open clusters and associations: general |
| spellingShingle | Seleznev Anton F. Avvakumova Ekaterina Kulesh Maxim Filina Julia Tsaregorodtseva Polina Kvashnina Alvira New atlas of open star clusters Open Astronomy open clusters and associations: general |
| title | New atlas of open star clusters |
| title_full | New atlas of open star clusters |
| title_fullStr | New atlas of open star clusters |
| title_full_unstemmed | New atlas of open star clusters |
| title_short | New atlas of open star clusters |
| title_sort | new atlas of open star clusters |
| topic | open clusters and associations: general |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1515/astro-2017-0023 |
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