Riddle 6

(MWSC 3478)

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0.65 UTI
0.76
CN
0.98
Cdens
1.0
CC3
0.25
Clit
1.0
Cdup
Radius (P>50% members) 20.3 [arcmin]
  • CN 0.76 Rich
  • Cdens 0.98 Very dense
  • CC3 1.0 Very high quality
  • Clit 0.25 Poorly studied
  • Cdup 1.0 Unique

Overview

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Riddle 6 is a rich, very dense object of very high C3 quality. Its parallax locates it at a close distance, above the mid-plane, affected by moderate extinction. It is catalogued as a near-solar metallicity, very young cluster (see Parameters). It is poorly studied in the literature.

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

Close Moderate extinction Near-solar metallicity Very young

Cavallo et al. (2024)
Gold sample.

Dias et al. (2002)
Asterism (Kronberger, M. 2005, private communication)

Data

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Reference Year RA [deg] DEC [deg] Plx [mas] pmRA [mas/yr] pmDE [mas/yr] Rv [km/s]
UCC – 318.035 59.902 1.173 -2.527 -3.511 -23.218
Hunt & Reffert 2024 317.968 59.983 1.178 -2.497 -3.505 -22.366
Cavallo et al. 2024 317.923 60.058 1.177 – – –
Hunt & Reffert 2023 317.968 59.983 1.178 -2.497 -3.505 -22.366
Bica et al. 2019 317.931 59.968 – – – –

💡 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 – – – – – 105* – –
Cavallo et al. 2024 0.93 1.26 – 9 0.490 – – –
Hunt & Reffert 2023 0.81 1.37 1.67 9 – – – –

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

Cluster % RA DEC Plx pmRA pmDE Rv UTI
UBC 385 28.2 317.94 60.02 1.18 -2.53 -3.51 -17.86 0.0
CWNU 1192 18.5 318.54 59.41 1.16 -2.51 -3.5 -25.37 0.02
OC 0158 17.7 318.24 59.51 1.16 -2.54 -3.51 -24.65 0.02

💡 Note: The % column shows the percentage of members that Riddle 6 shares with each listed object.

Visualization

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