Open clusters as tracers of the Galactic disk

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Dec 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010sf2a.conf..335b&link_type=abstract

SF2A-2010: Proceedings of the Annual meeting of the French Society of Astronomy and Astrophysics. Eds.: S. Boissier, M. Heydari-

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Galaxy: Disc, Hertzsprung-Russell (Hr) Diagram, Open Clusters And Associations: General

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Open clusters are good tracers of the properties of the Galactic disk, of its formation, and evolution. There are about 2000 open clusters in catalogues, but we have a measure of age and distance only for about one half of them, and the situation is even worse for metallicity. We are still far from fully exploiting the potentialities of these objects to understand our Galaxy. To this end, the results of the Gaia satellite will be of paramount importance, coupled with complementary and follow-up observations from the ground.

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