NGC 2343

(MWSC 1119; FoF 2081; CMa18)

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0.92 UTI
0.83
CN
1.0
Cdens
0.75
CC3
1.0
Clit
1.0
Cdup
Stellar density (N50/rad) 43.8 [N/pc2]
  • CN 0.83 Rich
  • Cdens 1.0 Very dense
  • CC3 0.75 High quality
  • Clit 1.0 Very well-studied
  • Cdup 1.0 Unique

Overview

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NGC 2343 is a rich, very dense object of high C3 quality. Its parallax locates it at a relatively close distance, near the mid-plane, affected by low extinction. It is catalogued as a near-solar metallicity, intermediate-age cluster, but with a large variance across recent sources for the metallicity and mass parameters (see Parameters). It is very well-studied in the literature.

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

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 99999– 107.022 -10.629 0.903 0.236 -0.174 9.514
Li et al. 2025 107.029 -10.619 0.898 0.193 -0.195 –
Almeida et al. 2025 107.028 -10.612 – – – –
Hunt & Reffert 2024 107.027 -10.617 0.901 0.228 -0.172 9.092
Cavallo et al. 2024 107.008 -10.619 0.903 – – –
Hunt & Reffert 2023 107.027 -10.617 0.901 0.228 -0.172 9.092
Almeida et al. 2023 107.028 -10.624 – – – –
Just et al. 2023 107.011 -10.598 – – – –
He et al. 2022 107.015 -10.609 0.907 0.248 -0.165 –
Tarricq et al. 2022 107.0 -10.618 0.913 0.253 -0.169 –
Jaehnig et al. 2021 107.022 -10.624 0.936 0.262 -0.181 –
Santos-Silva et al. 2021 107.01 -10.62 0.91 0.26 -0.18 –
Rain et al. 2021 107.029 -10.619 0.898 0.193 -0.195 –
Dias et al. 2021 107.028 -10.612 0.898 0.209 -0.184 –
Cantat-Gaudin et al. 2020 107.029 -10.619 0.898 0.193 -0.195 –
SΓ‘nchez et al. 2020 107.025 -10.617 – 0.288 -0.413 –
Cantat-Gaudin & Anders 2020 107.029 -10.619 0.898 0.193 -0.195 –
Liu & Pang 2019 106.986 -10.636 0.92 0.206 -0.183 –
Bossini et al. 2019 107.029 -10.619 – – – –
Soubiran et al. 2018 107.029 -10.619 – – – 15.73
Cantat-Gaudin et al. 2018 107.029 -10.619 0.898 0.193 -0.195 –
Loktin & Popova 2017 107.025 -10.617 – 0.509 0.466 14.9
Kharchenko et al. 2016 107.011 -10.598 – – – –
Dias et al. 2014 107.025 -10.617 – 1.01 0.2 –
Kharchenko et al. 2013 107.017 -10.6 – 0.0 2.0 14.9
Gozha et al. 2012 107.025 -10.617 – – – –
Piskunov et al. 2008 107.019 -10.622 – – – –
van den Bergh 2006 107.025 -10.617 – – – –
Kharchenko et al. 2005 107.02 -10.62 – -0.55 2.07 –
Kharchenko et al. 2003 107.04 -10.63 – -0.87 0.11 –
Chen et al. 2003 107.052 -10.661 – – – –
Dias et al. 2002 107.025 -10.617 – -2.09 -1.41 14.89
Dambis 1999 107.025 -10.617 – – – –

πŸ’‘ 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 99999– 1.06 0.49 1.04 131 -0.030 194 0.52 0.0
Li et al. 2025 0.90 0.59 – 224 -0.367 – – –
Almeida et al. 2025 1.07 0.74 – 149 – 196 – –
Hunt & Reffert 2024 – – – – – 618(1) – –
Cavallo et al. 2024 1.13 0.66 – 155 0.110 – – –
Hunt & Reffert 2023 1.03 0.49 1.04 163 – – – –
Almeida et al. 2023 1.04 0.67 – 155 0.013 194(1) 0.52 –
Just et al. 2023 – – – 136 – 48 – –
He et al. 2022 – 0.85 – 79 – – – –
Tarricq et al. 2022 1.05 – – 91 – – – –
Jaehnig et al. 2021 1.06(1) – – – – – – –
Santos-Silva et al. 2021 1.02(1) 0.63(1) – 181(1) -0.030(1) – – –
Rain et al. 2021 1.08 0.46 – 85 – – – 0
Dias et al. 2021 1.07 0.74 – 149 0.063 – – –
Cantat-Gaudin et al. 2020 1.09 0.51 – 87 – – – –
Cantat-Gaudin & Anders 2020 1.08 – – – – – – –
Liu & Pang 2019 – – – 96 0.250 – – –
Bossini et al. 2019 1.03 0.49 – 86 0.030 – – –
Soubiran et al. 2018 1.08 – – – – – – –
Cantat-Gaudin et al. 2018 1.08 – – – – – – –
Loktin & Popova 2017 1.07 0.40 – 13 – – – –
Kharchenko et al. 2016 1.03 0.38 – 136 – – – –
Kharchenko et al. 2013 1.03 0.38 – 136 -0.300 – – –
Gozha et al. 2012 1.06 – – 13 -0.300 10 – –
Piskunov et al. 2008 1.06 0.37 – 170 – – – –
van den Bergh 2006 1.06 0.37 – 13 – – – –
Kharchenko et al. 2005 1.06 0.37 – 170 – – – –
Kharchenko et al. 2003 1.05 0.37 – – – – – –
Chen et al. 2003 1.06 0.37 – 10 -0.300(1) – – –
Dias et al. 2002 1.06 0.37 – 13 -0.300 – – –
Dambis 1999 0.81 0.51 – 126 – – – –

(N): Indicates that there are N extra values assigned to this parameter in the corresponding reference.

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