HSC 959

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0.38 UTI
0.3
CN
0.86
Cdens
0.75
CC3
0.0
Clit
1.0
Cdup
Radius (P>50% members) 1.5 [arcmin]
  • CN 0.3 Poorly populated
  • Cdens 0.86 Dense
  • CC3 0.75 High quality
  • Clit 0.0 Rarely studied
  • Cdup 1.0 Unique

Overview

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HSC 959 is a poorly populated, dense object of high C3 quality. Its parallax locates it at a large distance, above the mid-plane, affected by high extinction. It is catalogued as a massive, metal-poor, intermediate-age 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.

Very distant High extinction Massive Metal-poor 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 – 6.099 67.227 0.165 -1.966 -0.596 –
Hunt & Reffert 2024 6.083 67.224 0.179 -1.976 -0.622 –
Cavallo et al. 2024 6.062 67.223 0.18 – – –
Hunt & Reffert 2023 6.083 67.224 0.179 -1.976 -0.622 –

💡 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 – – – – – 1394* – –
Cavallo et al. 2024 4.94 4.66 – 72 -0.630 – – –
Hunt & Reffert 2023 5.40 4.45 2.15 177 – – – –

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

Cluster % RA DEC Plx pmRA pmDE Rv UTI
CWNU 2973 86.7 6.1 67.23 0.17 -1.99 -0.59 – 0.03

💡 Note: The % column shows the percentage of members that HSC 959 shares with each listed object.

Visualization

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