Journal
ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
Volume 564, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
EDP SCIENCES S A
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201323226
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open clusters and associations: general
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- Sao Paulo State Agency FAPESP [2013/01115-6]
- FAPEMIG [APQ-02030-10, CEX-PPM-00235-12]
- CNPq [478318/2007-3, 305420/2008-9, 482080/2009-4]
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We present a catalog of mean proper motions and membership probabilities of individual stars for optically visible open clusters, which have been determined using data from the UCAC4 catalog in a homogeneous way. The mean proper motion of the cluster and the membership probabilities of the stars in the region of each cluster were determined by applying the statistical method in a modified fashion. In this study, we applied a global optimization procedure to fit the observed distribution of proper motions with two overlapping normal bivariate frequency functions, which also take the individual proper motion errors into account. For 724 clusters, this is the first determination of proper motion, and for the whole sample, we present results with a much larger number of identified astrometric member stars. Furthermore, it was possible to estimate the mean radial velocity of 364 clusters (102 unpublished so far) with the stellar membership using published radial velocity catalogs. These results provide an increase of 30% and 19% in the sample of open clusters with a determined mean absolute proper motion and mean radial velocity, respectively.
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