Astrometric star-cluster membership probability: application to the case of M 37 with Gaia EDR3 [GA]

http://arxiv.org/abs/2202.07942


In this work, starting from the well-accepted relations in literature, we introduce a new formalism to compute the astrometric membership probabilities for sources in star clusters, and we provide an application to the case of the open cluster M 37. The novelty of our approach is a refined — and magnitude-dependent — modelling of the parallax distribution of the field stars. We employ the here-derived list of members to estimate the cluster’s mean systemic astrometric parameters, which are based on the most recent Gaia’s catalog (EDR3).

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M. Griggio and L. Bedin
Thu, 17 Feb 22
21/60

Comments: 8 pages, 1 table, 7 figures (2 in low resolution). Accepted for publication in MNRAS on 2022, February 9