HSC 261

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0.50 UTI
0.5
CN
1.0
Cdens
1.0
CC3
0.0
Clit
1.0
Cdup
Radius (P>50% members) 2.0 [arcmin]
  • CN 0.5 Moderately populated
  • Cdens 1.0 Very dense
  • CC3 1.0 Very high quality
  • Clit 0.0 Rarely studied
  • Cdup 1.0 Unique

Overview

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HSC 261 is a moderately populated, very dense object of very high C3 quality. Its parallax locates it at a moderate distance, near the mid-plane, affected by high extinction. It is catalogued as a massive, near-solar metallicity, young cluster (see Parameters). It was recently reported in the literature.

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

Distant High extinction Massive Near-solar metallicity Young

Cavallo et al. (2024)
Wood sample.

Data

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Reference Year RA [deg] DEC [deg] Plx [mas] pmRA [mas/yr] pmDE [mas/yr] Rv [km/s]
UCC – 279.67 -5.398 0.218 -0.78 -2.795 25.574
Hunt & Reffert 2024 279.67 -5.402 0.226 -0.792 -2.813 5.97
Cavallo et al. 2024 279.676 -5.38 0.228 – – –
Hunt & Reffert 2023 279.67 -5.402 0.226 -0.792 -2.813 5.97

💡 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
Hunt & Reffert 2024 – – – – – 2104* – –
Cavallo et al. 2024 4.76 4.89 – 35 0.480 – – –
Hunt & Reffert 2023 3.65 4.73 2.88 128 – – – –

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

Cluster % RA DEC Plx pmRA pmDE Rv UTI
CWNU 3077 98.0 279.67 -5.4 0.2 -0.77 -2.81 25.57 0.18

💡 Note: The % column shows the percentage of members that HSC 261 shares with each listed object.

Visualization

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