2025MNRAS.543.1584A


Query : 2025MNRAS.543.1584A

2025MNRAS.543.1584A - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 543, 1584-1601 (2025/October-3)

A comprehensive study of the old open cluster NGC 6791 using Gaia DR3 data and BV photometry.

AHMED N.M.

Abstract (from CDS):

NGC 6791 is a remarkable stellar system that stands out among Galactic open clusters due to its dual distinction as one of the oldest and the most metal-rich clusters. This cluster is among the most thoroughly investigated open clusters, boasting a mass of approximately 4000 ${\rm M}_{\odot }$, an age of about 8 billion years, and a high metallicity of [Fe/H] $\approx 0.4$, making it the most metal-rich cluster identified in the Milky Way. This paper aims to revisit its kinematic, orbital, photometric properties, and stellar populations by using Gaia Data Release 3 (DR3) and BV photometry. To assess membership, we employed the PYUPMASKPYTHON package with the HDBSCAN algorithm. The cluster's proper motions ($\mu _{\alpha }\cos \delta$, $\mu _{\delta }$) and parallax ($\varpi$) are -0.419 $\pm$ 0.12 mas yr$^{-1}$, -2.284 $\pm$ 0.21 mas yr$^{-1}$, and 0.192 $\pm$ 0.042 mas, respectively. Utilizing the PARSEC stellar isochrone fit, we derived the physical parameters of the cluster. The average cluster age and relaxation time are estimated to be 8.2 $\pm$ 0.5 Gyr and 153.9$\pm$ 12.54 Myr, respectively. For the Gaia data, the colour excess $E(G_{BP}-G_{RP})$ is determined to be 0.22 $\pm$ 0.04 mag, and the distance modulus is 13.1 $\pm$ 0.08 mag, corresponding to a distance of 4170 $\pm$ 262 pc. But for BV data, the distance modulus and the colour excess E(B - V) are 12.98 $\pm$ .08 and 0.17 $\pm$ 0.04 mag. The orbit of the cluster has been established. Finally, the mass function is well matched by the two Gaussian functions, which suggest that there are two stellar mass populations in NGC 6791 cluster.

Abstract Copyright: © The Author(s) 2025. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society.

Journal keyword(s): star cluster - Gaia DR3 - proper motion - distance - mass function - stellar populations

Simbad objects: 13

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Number of rows : 13
N Identifier Otype ICRS (J2000)
RA
ICRS (J2000)
DEC
Mag U Mag B Mag V Mag R Mag I Sp type #ref
1850 - 2026
#notes
1 NAME Magellanic Clouds GrG 03 00 -71.0           ~ 7988 0
2 NAME Gal Anticenter reg 05 46 +28.9           ~ 1024 0
3 M 3 GlC 13 42 11.62 +28 22 38.2     6.39     ~ 2593 0
4 Cl* NGC 6791 KU B1 BS* 19 20 40.3133227440 +37 53 50.749607364 16.55 16.98 16.963     B9: 15 1
5 Cl* NGC 6791 KU B3 HS* 19 20 45.1716372576 +37 49 31.272065724 16.65 16.4 17.809 18.3   sdB 29 0
6 Cl* NGC 6791 KU B6 HS* 19 20 45.3287478168 +37 48 19.262980080 16.77 17.80 18.005     sdB 19 0
7 Cl* NGC 6791 KU B2 HS* 19 20 49.9002045672 +37 41 38.829173388 16.13 17.25 17.475     sdO+F/G 23 0
8 NGC 6791 OpC 19 20 52.8 +37 46 40   10.52 9.5     ~ 1120 0
9 KIC 2437937 HS* 19 21 03.3493572696 +37 46 59.623553532           sdB 15 1
10 V* V523 Lyr CV* 19 21 07.3950071424 +37 47 56.271903940 17.70         ~ 36 0
11 Cl* NGC 6791 KU B4 HS* 19 21 12.8916906768 +37 45 51.138205956 16.73 17.69 17.873 17.910 18.02 sdB 46 0
12 Cl* NGC 6791 KU B9 HS? 19 21 45.0086484528 +37 44 02.475592368   18.023 18.176     ~ 9 0
13 SDSS J192156.12+375923.1 HS* 19 21 56.1292079136 +37 59 23.176918176           sdB 7 0

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