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The subsystem of open clusters in the post-hipparcos era: Cluster structural parameters and proper motions

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The wide neighborhoods of 401 open clusters are analyzed using the modern, high-precision, homogeneous ASCC-2.5 all-sky catalog. More than 28000 possible cluster members (including about 12500 most probable members) are identified using kinematic and photometric criteria. Star counts with the ASCC-2.5 and USNO-A2.0 catalogs are used to determine the angular and linear radii of the cluster cores and coronas, which exceed the previously published values by factors of two to three. The segregation (differing central concentration) of member stars by magnitude is observed. The mean proper motions are determined directly in the Hipparcos system for 401 clusters, for 183 of them for the first time. The heliocentric distances of 118 clusters are determined for the first time based on color-magnitude diagrams for their identified members.

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  1. Main Astronomical Observatory, ul. Akademika Zabolotnogo 27, Kiev, 03680, Ukraine

    N. V. Kharchenko & L. K. Pakulyak

  2. Institute of Astronomy, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Pyatnitskaya 48, Moscow, 109017, Russia

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Translated from Astronomicheski\(\overset{\lower0.5em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\smile}$}}{l} \) Zhurnal, Vol. 80, No. 4, 2003, pp. 291–303.

Original Russian Text Copyright © 2003 by Kharchenko, Pakulyak, Piskunov.

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Kharchenko, N.V., Pakulyak, L.K. & Piskunov, A.E. The subsystem of open clusters in the post-hipparcos era: Cluster structural parameters and proper motions. Astron. Rep. 47, 263–275 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1568131

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