Abstract Details

Name: Swarali Patil
Affiliation: IISER Thiruvananthapuram, PRL Ahmedabad
Conference ID: ASI2020_144
Title : Unveiling distance and evolutionary status of six galactic embedded star clusters with GAIA
Authors and Co-Authors : Swarali Patil, Dr. Manash Samal
Abstract Type : Poster
Abstract Category : Stars, ISM and Galaxy
Abstract : Most of the stars are formed in star clusters. Therefore, young star clusters before they are dynamically relaxed, represent natural laboratories for understanding star formation and stellar evolution theories. However, determinations of distance and kinematic properties of star clusters are significantly hampered by the contaminating field stars along the line of sight, which in turn affects the cluster properties such as age, luminosity/mass function, and dynamical status. Recent GAIA measurements have provided parallax and proper motion measurements of 1.3 billion stars in our Galaxy. In this work, using GAIA measurements along with a sophisticated approach, we obtained distance and evolutionary status of six nearby embedded clusters. We argue that for these clusters, our estimates are more precise than other measurements tabulated in the literature and discuss that our method can be implemented to distant clusters to obtain precise cluster properties.