Stellar clusters in the Gaia era [SSA]

http://arxiv.org/abs/1707.01405


Stellar clusters are important for astrophysics in many ways, for instance as optimal tracers of the Galactic populations to which they belong or as one of the best test bench for stellar evolutionary models. Gaia DR1, with TGAS, is just skimming the wealth of exquisite information we are expecting from the more advanced catalogues, but already offers good opportunities and indicates the vast potentialities. Gaia results can be efficiently complemented by ground-based data, in particular by large spectroscopic and photometric surveys. Examples of some scientific results of the Gaia-ESO survey are presented, as a teaser for what will be possible once advanced Gaia releases and ground-based data will be combined.

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A. Bragaglia
Thu, 6 Jul 17
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Comments: 8 pages, 8 composite figures, uses pdflatex. To appear in the Proceedings of IAU Symp. 330 (Astrometry and Astrophysics in the Gaia Sky)