Revealing New Open Clusters with the GLIMPSE-360 Survey

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Jan 2012

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2012aas...21915121h&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #219, #151.21

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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We identify and investigate new and poorly studied open clusters in the recently obtained GLIMPSE-360 data. After identifying the clusters and candidates visually in the GLIMPSE survey images, we dereddened the 2MASS color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) using the RJCE method and performed isochrone fitting. We identified 22 candidates with convincing cluster CMDs and no existing identification in the literature, and we obtained follow-up photometry for a few selected candidates. The purpose of this project is to determine the basic parameters (age, reddening, metallicity and distance) of these open clusters where possible, thus contributing to the ongoing census of open clusters in the Milky Way.

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