New open cluster candidates discovered in the XSTPS-GAC survey  

作　　者：Jin-Cheng Guo Hua-Wei Zhang Hui-Hua Zhang Xiao-Wei Liu Hai-Bo Yuan Yang Huang Song Wang Li Chen Hai-Bin Zhao Ji-Feng Liu Bing-Qiu Chen Mao-Sheng Xiang Zhi-Jia Tian Zhi-Ying Huo Chun Wang 

机构地区：[1]Department of Astronomy,Peking University [2]Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics,Peking University [3]Key Laboratory of Optical Astronomy,National Astronomical Observatories,Chinese Academy of Sciences [4]South-Western Institute for Astronomy Research,Yunnan University [5]Department of Astronomy,Beijing Normal University [6]Shanghai Astronomical Observatory,Chinese Academy of Sciences [7]Purple Mountain Observatory,Chinese Academy of Sciences

出　　处：《Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics》2018年第3期77-90,共14页天文和天体物理学研究（英文版）

基　　金：supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC,Grant Nos.11473001,11233004,11078006,11633009 and 11273067);the Minor Planet Foundation of Purple Mountain Observatory;supported by the National Key Basic Research Program of China (2014CB845700);the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant No.2017M610695);supported by Special Funding for Advanced Users,budgeted and administrated by the Center for Astronomical Mega-Science,Chinese Academy of Sciences

摘　　要：The Xuyi Schmidt Telescope Photometric Survey of the Galactic Anti-center（XSTPS-GAC）is a photometric sky survey that covers nearly 6000 deg^2 towards the Galactic Anti-center（GAC） in the g,r,i bands. Half of its survey field is located on the Galactic Anti-center disk,which makes XSTPSGAC highly suitable to search for new open clusters in the GAC region. In this paper,we report new open cluster candidates discovered in this survey,as well as properties of these open cluster candidates,such as age,distance and reddening,derived by isochrone fitting in the color-magnitude diagram（CMD）.These open cluster candidates are stellar density peaks detected in the star density maps by applying the method from Koposov et al. Each candidate is inspected in terms of its true color image composed from three XSTPS-GAC band images. Then its CMD is checked,in order to identify whether the central region stars have a clear isochrone-like trend differing from background stars. The parameters derived from isochrone fitting for these candidates are mainly based on three band photometry of XSTPS-GAC.Moreover,when these new candidates are able to be seen clearly in 2 MASS data,their parameters are also derived based on the 2 MASS（J-H,J） CMD. There are a total of 320 known open clusters rediscovered and 24 new open cluster candidates discovered in this work. Furthermore,the parameters of these new candidates,as well as another 11 previously known open clusters,are properly determined for the first time.The Xuyi Schmidt Telescope Photometric Survey of the Galactic Anti-center（XSTPS-GAC）is a photometric sky survey that covers nearly 6000 deg^2 towards the Galactic Anti-center（GAC） in the g,r,i bands. Half of its survey field is located on the Galactic Anti-center disk,which makes XSTPSGAC highly suitable to search for new open clusters in the GAC region. In this paper,we report new open cluster candidates discovered in this survey,as well as properties of these open cluster candidates,such as age,distance and reddening,derived by isochrone fitting in the color-magnitude diagram（CMD）.These open cluster candidates are stellar density peaks detected in the star density maps by applying the method from Koposov et al. Each candidate is inspected in terms of its true color image composed from three XSTPS-GAC band images. Then its CMD is checked,in order to identify whether the central region stars have a clear isochrone-like trend differing from background stars. The parameters derived from isochrone fitting for these candidates are mainly based on three band photometry of XSTPS-GAC.Moreover,when these new candidates are able to be seen clearly in 2 MASS data,their parameters are also derived based on the 2 MASS（J-H,J） CMD. There are a total of 320 known open clusters rediscovered and 24 new open cluster candidates discovered in this work. Furthermore,the parameters of these new candidates,as well as another 11 previously known open clusters,are properly determined for the first time.

关 键 词：open clusters and associations general - Galaxy structure - methods data analysis 

分 类 号：P154[天文地球—天文学]