Berkeley 81

(MWSC 3039; OCL 88)

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0.96 UTI
0.8
CN
1.0
Cdens
1.0
CC3
1.0
Clit
1.0
Cdup
Radius (P>50% members) 2.3 [arcmin]
  • CN 0.8 Rich
  • Cdens 1.0 Very dense
  • CC3 1.0 Very high quality
  • Clit 1.0 Very well-studied
  • Cdup 1.0 Unique

Overview

Berkeley 81 is a rich, very dense object of very high C3 quality. Its parallax locates it at a moderate distance, below the mid-plane, affected by high extinction. It is catalogued as a massive, near-solar metallicity, old cluster, but with a large variance across recent sources for the age parameter (see Parameters). It is very well-studied in the literature.

Note: This object contains blue stragglers according to at least one source.

Distant High extinction Massive Near-solar metallicity Old Contains BSS

Almeida et al. (2025): Mass determination: good fit. Isochrone match: intermediate fit. Silver sample.

Cavallo et al. (2024): Gold sample.

Data

Reference Year RA [deg] DEC [deg] Plx [mas] pmRA [mas/yr] pmDE [mas/yr] Rv [km/s]
UCC 285.418 -0.454 0.248 -1.153 -1.929 46.795
Hu & Soubiran 2025 285.426 -0.44
Almeida et al. 2025 285.417 -0.454
Hunt & Reffert 2024 285.417 -0.457 0.252 -1.145 -1.962 44.696
Cavallo et al. 2024 285.426 -0.44 0.247
Hunt & Reffert 2023 285.417 -0.457 0.252 -1.145 -1.962 44.696
Just et al. 2023 285.398 -0.462
Jaehnig et al. 2021 285.42 -0.454 0.275 -1.213 -1.864
Rain et al. 2021 285.419 -0.454 0.254 -1.204 -1.853
Dias et al. 2021 285.417 -0.454 0.255 -1.191 -1.85 49.891
Cantat-Gaudin et al. 2020 285.419 -0.454 0.254 -1.204 -1.853
Soubiran et al. 2018 285.419 -0.454 50.01
Bica et al. 2019 285.412 -0.456
Cantat-Gaudin et al. 2018 285.419 -0.454 0.254 -1.204 -1.853
Loktin & Popova 2017 285.42 -0.456 2.724 -8.142 13.0
Kharchenko et al. 2016 285.398 -0.462
Kharchenko et al. 2013 285.405 -0.46 -0.99 -8.59 13.0
Dias et al. 2002 285.417 -0.456 1.46 -0.7 48.1

💡 Note: The UCC values are estimated from its identified members.

Reference Year Dist [kpc] Av [mag] DAv [mag] Age [Myr] [Fe/H] [dex] Mass [Msun] Bfr BSS
Hu & Soubiran 2025 -0.070*
Almeida et al. 2025 3.69 3.04 769 1262
Hunt & Reffert 2024 4001*
Cavallo et al. 2024 2.78 3.34 1096 -0.070
Hunt & Reffert 2023 3.45 3.88 2.17 225
Just et al. 2023 1000 2037
Jaehnig et al. 2021 3.68*
Rain et al. 2021 3.53 3.10 1000 1
Dias et al. 2021 3.69 3.04 769 0.215
Cantat-Gaudin et al. 2020 3.31 2.75 1148
Soubiran et al. 2018 3.53
Cantat-Gaudin et al. 2018 3.53
Loktin & Popova 2017 4.73 2.78 589
Kharchenko et al. 2016 3.40 3.29 1000
Kharchenko et al. 2013 3.40 3.29 1000 -0.150
Dias et al. 2002 3.00 3.10 1000 -0.150

💡 Note: The parameters are sometimes transformed from their original values to match the format of the columns shown here, see FAQ. The columns DAv, Bfr, BSS correspond to differential extinction, binary fraction, and blue stragglers, respectively. BSS values can be listed as fractions or integers.
(*): indicates that this parameter is assigned more than one value in the corresponding reference.

Visualization

Galactocentric position diagram

💡 Note: How are the galactocentric plots generated? See FAQ.