FoF 273

(LP 273)

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0.70 UTI
0.77
CN
1.0
Cdens
1.0
CC3
0.38
Clit
1.0
Cdup
Radius (P>50% members) 3.6 [arcmin]
  • CN 0.77 Rich
  • Cdens 1.0 Very dense
  • CC3 1.0 Very high quality
  • Clit 0.38 Poorly studied
  • Cdup 1.0 Unique

Overview

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FoF 273 is a rich, very dense object of very high C3 quality. Its parallax locates it at a moderate distance, near the mid-plane, affected by moderate extinction. It is catalogued as a massive, near-solar metallicity, intermediate-age cluster (see Parameters). It is poorly studied in the literature.

Note: This object shares a large percentage of members with 3 later reported entries. See table with shared members information.

Relatively close Moderate extinction Massive Near-solar metallicity Intermediate age

Cavallo et al. (2024)
Gold sample.

Data

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Reference Year RA [deg] DEC [deg] Plx [mas] pmRA [mas/yr] pmDE [mas/yr] Rv [km/s]
UCC – 245.725 -50.178 0.386 -2.355 -4.123 -72.388
Li et al. 2025 245.723 -50.172 0.372 -2.322 -4.119 –
Hunt & Reffert 2024 245.725 -50.177 0.394 -2.383 -4.091 -69.164
Cavallo et al. 2024 245.72 -50.168 0.393 – – –
Hunt & Reffert 2023 245.725 -50.177 0.394 -2.383 -4.091 -69.164
Cantat-Gaudin et al. 2020 245.723 -50.172 0.372 -2.322 -4.119 –
Liu & Pang 2019 245.718 -50.174 0.362 -2.346 -4.109 –

💡 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
Li et al. 2025 2.41 2.52 – 700 0.058 – – –
Hunt & Reffert 2024 – – – – – 1656* – –
Cavallo et al. 2024 2.06 2.69 – 398 0.110 – – –
Hunt & Reffert 2023 2.29 2.69 2.21 238 – – – –
Cantat-Gaudin et al. 2020 2.40 2.05 – 380 – – – –
Liu & Pang 2019 – – – 1480 -0.750 – – –

(*): Indicates that this parameter is assigned more than one value in the corresponding reference.

Cluster % RA DEC Plx pmRA pmDE Rv UTI
UBC 543 95.4 245.73 -50.18 0.39 -2.36 -4.12 -71.96 0.1
CWWDL 1589 66.4 245.73 -50.17 0.39 -2.36 -4.12 -71.96 0.0
CWWDL 13867 25.7 245.73 -50.18 0.41 -2.41 -4.1 -72.39 0.04

💡 Note: The % column shows the percentage of members that FoF 273 shares with each listed object.

Visualization

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