Haffner 20
(VDBH 16; MWSC 1385; OCL 692; vdBergh-Hagen 16; ESO 430 04)
0.90
UTI
0.76
CN
1.0
Cdens
0.75
CC3
1.0
Clit
1.0
Cdup
Stellar density (N50/rad)
26.1 [N/pc2]
- CN 0.76 Rich
- Cdens 1.0 Very dense
- CC3 0.75 High quality
- Clit 1.0 Very well-studied
- Cdup 1.0 Unique
Overview
Haffner 20 is a rich, very dense object of high C3 quality. Its parallax locates it at a moderate* distance, near the mid-plane, affected by moderate extinction. It is catalogued as a near-solar metallicity, intermediate-age cluster, but with a large variance across recent sources for the absorption, age, and metallicity parameters (see Parameters). It is very well-studied in the literature.
(*): The parallax distance estimate (~4.79 kpc) differs significantly from the median photometric distance (~3.61 kpc).
Data
| Reference | Year | RA [deg] | DEC [deg] | Plx [mas] | pmRA [mas/yr] | pmDE [mas/yr] | Rv [km/s] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UCC | 99999β | 119.066 | -30.369 | 0.209 | -2.292 | 3.441 | 68.699 |
| Li et al. | 2025 | 119.061 | -30.369 | 0.178 | -2.294 | 3.407 | β |
| Almeida et al. | 2025 | 119.06 | -30.363 | β | β | β | β |
| Hunt & Reffert | 2024 | 119.065 | -30.369 | 0.217 | -2.286 | 3.436 | 68.67 |
| Cavallo et al. | 2024 | 119.062 | -30.356 | 0.206 | β | β | β |
| Hunt & Reffert | 2023 | 119.065 | -30.369 | 0.217 | -2.286 | 3.436 | 68.67 |
| Almeida et al. | 2023 | 119.06 | -30.364 | β | β | β | β |
| Just et al. | 2023 | 119.058 | -30.364 | β | β | β | β |
| Dias et al. | 2021 | 119.06 | -30.363 | 0.172 | -2.316 | 3.43 | β |
| Cantat-Gaudin et al. | 2020 | 119.061 | -30.369 | 0.178 | -2.294 | 3.407 | β |
| SΓ‘nchez et al. | 2020 | 119.062 | -30.367 | β | -2.434 | 3.389 | β |
| Cantat-Gaudin & Anders | 2020 | 119.061 | -30.369 | 0.178 | -2.294 | 3.407 | β |
| Soubiran et al. | 2018 | 119.061 | -30.369 | β | β | β | 69.48 |
| Bica et al. | 2019 | 119.072 | -30.359 | β | β | β | β |
| Cantat-Gaudin et al. | 2018 | 119.061 | -30.369 | 0.178 | -2.294 | 3.407 | β |
| Loktin & Popova | 2017 | 119.07 | -30.367 | β | 0.738 | -0.803 | β |
| Kharchenko et al. | 2016 | 119.058 | -30.364 | β | β | β | β |
| Dias et al. | 2014 | 119.062 | -30.367 | β | -0.9 | -2.04 | β |
| Kharchenko et al. | 2013 | 119.062 | -30.367 | β | 0.92 | -2.38 | β |
| van den Bergh | 2006 | 119.075 | -30.4 | β | β | β | β |
| Dias et al. | 2002 | 119.062 | -30.367 | β | -0.61 | -1.83 | β |
π‘ 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] | Bfrac | BSS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UCC | 99999β | 3.61 | 1.785 | 1.14 | 132 | -0.112 | 402 | 0.58 | β |
| Li et al. | 2025 | 2.11 | 0.42 | β | 3785 | 0.240 | β | β | β |
| Almeida et al. | 2025 | 3.67 | 2.23 | β | 87 | β | 426 | β | β |
| Hunt & Reffert | 2024 | β | β | β | β | β | 661(1) | β | β |
| Cavallo et al. | 2024 | 3.61 | 2.39 | β | 186 | -0.120 | β | β | β |
| Hunt & Reffert | 2023 | 4.02 | 2.12 | 1.14 | 203 | β | β | β | β |
| Almeida et al. | 2023 | 3.54 | 2.22 | β | 187 | -0.174 | 377(1) | 0.58 | β |
| Just et al. | 2023 | β | β | β | 114 | β | 268 | β | β |
| Dias et al. | 2021 | 3.67 | 2.23 | β | 87 | -0.103 | β | β | β |
| Cantat-Gaudin et al. | 2020 | 4.35 | 1.80 | β | 195 | β | β | β | β |
| Cantat-Gaudin & Anders | 2020 | 4.84 | β | β | β | β | β | β | β |
| Soubiran et al. | 2018 | 4.84 | β | β | β | β | β | β | β |
| Cantat-Gaudin et al. | 2018 | 4.84 | β | β | β | β | β | β | β |
| Loktin & Popova | 2017 | 3.19 | 1.72 | β | 141 | β | β | β | β |
| Kharchenko et al. | 2016 | 2.91 | 1.74 | β | 114 | β | β | β | β |
| Kharchenko et al. | 2013 | 2.91 | 1.74 | β | 114 | β | β | β | β |
| van den Bergh | 2006 | 3.12 | 1.77 | β | 132 | β | β | β | β |
| Dias et al. | 2002 | 3.12 | 1.76 | β | 132 | β | β | β | β |
(N): Indicates that there are N extra values assigned to this parameter in the corresponding reference.
MOCA


Almeida et al. (2025)
Mass determination: good fit. Isochrone match: good fit.
Cavallo et al. (2024)
Gold sample.