Ruprecht 171

(OCL 50; MWSC 2944)

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0.95 UTI
1.0
CN
1.0
Cdens
1.0
CC3
0.87
Clit
1.0
Cdup
Stellar density (N50/rad) 91.0 [N/pc2]
  • CN 1.0 Very rich
  • Cdens 1.0 Very dense
  • CC3 1.0 Very high quality
  • Clit 0.87 Well-studied
  • Cdup 1.0 Unique

Overview

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Ruprecht 171 is a very rich, very dense object of very high C3 quality. Its parallax locates it at a relatively close distance, below the mid-plane, affected by low extinction. It is catalogued as a massive, near-solar metallicity, old cluster, but with a large variance across recent sources for the metallicity and mass parameters (see Parameters). It is well-studied in the literature.

Note: This object contains blue stragglers according to at least one source.

Palma et al. (2025)
Classified as optical pair P451, along with HSC_195.

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

Cavallo et al. (2024)
Gold sample.

Hunt & Reffert (2024)
Classified as open cluster. CMD class: 0.99 (50th percentile).

Data

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Reference Year RA [deg] DEC [deg] Plx [mas] pmRA [mas/yr] pmDE [mas/yr] Rv [km/s]
UCC 99999– 278.009 -16.061 0.635 7.715 1.079 5.407
Bijavara Seshashayana et al. 2025 278.041 -15.879 – – – –
Li et al. 2025 278.012 -16.062 0.62 7.677 1.091 –
Hu & Soubiran 2025 278.012 -16.074 – – – –
Wei et al. 2025 278.009 -16.064 0.636 7.71 1.082 –
Carrasco-Varela et al. 2025 278.257 -16.076 – – – –
Almeida et al. 2025 278.013 -16.066 – – – –
Hunt & Reffert 2024 278.014 -16.061 0.636 7.717 1.083 5.555
Cavallo et al. 2024 278.013 -16.074 0.635 – – –
Hunt & Reffert 2023 278.014 -16.061 0.636 7.717 1.083 5.555
Almeida et al. 2023 278.005 -16.078 – – – –
Angelo et al. 2023 278.012 -16.046 – 7.71 1.08 –
Tarricq et al. 2022 278.004 -16.06 0.633 7.709 1.086 –
Jadhav & Subramaniam 2021 278.012 -16.062 – – – –
Dias et al. 2021 278.013 -16.066 0.622 7.678 1.091 5.884
Cantat-Gaudin et al. 2020 278.012 -16.062 0.62 7.677 1.091 –
Cantat-Gaudin & Anders 2020 278.012 -16.062 0.62 7.677 1.091 –
Soubiran et al. 2018 278.012 -16.062 – – – 5.61
Bica et al. 2019 278.04 -16.056 – – – –
Cantat-Gaudin et al. 2018 278.012 -16.062 0.62 7.677 1.091 –
Tadross 2014 278.046 -16.05 – – – –
Dias et al. 2014 278.046 -16.05 – 1.58 0.32 –
Dias et al. 2002 278.046 -16.05 – 1.58 0.32 –
Lynga 1987 278.045 -16.047 – – – –

💡 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– 1.51 0.88 0.2 2958 0.019 2832 0.565 4
Bijavara Seshashayana et al. 2025 – 0.68 – 2750 0.000(14) – – –
Li et al. 2025 1.51 0.88 – 2976 0.049 – – –
Hu & Soubiran 2025 – – – – -0.170(5) – – –
Wei et al. 2025 1.35 0.42 – 4680 0.500 2978 0.49 –
Carrasco-Varela et al. 2025 1.51 0.93 – 2958 -0.100 – – 4(1)
Almeida et al. 2025 1.51 0.93 – 2958 – 2475 – –
Hunt & Reffert 2024 – – – – – 3261(1) – –
Cavallo et al. 2024 1.41 1.16 – 2344 -0.220 – – –
Hunt & Reffert 2023 1.49 0.81 0.20 1472 – – – –
Almeida et al. 2023 1.47 0.93 – 3034 0.070 2687(1) 0.64 –
Angelo et al. 2023 1.38 0.95 – 3162 0.000 35(1) – –
Spina et al. 2022 – – – – 0.038 – – –
Tarricq et al. 2022 1.48 – – 2818 – – – –
Jadhav & Subramaniam 2021 1.52 0.68 – 2754 – 5020 – 3(1)
Dias et al. 2021 1.51 0.93 – 2958 0.048 – – –
Cantat-Gaudin et al. 2020 1.52 0.68 – 2754 – – – –
Kounkel et al. 2020 1.64 1.25 – 1072 – – – –
Cantat-Gaudin & Anders 2020 1.54 – – – – – – –
Soubiran et al. 2018 1.54 – – – – – – –
Cantat-Gaudin et al. 2018 1.54 – – – – – – –
Tadross 2014 1.14 0.38 – 3200 – – – –
Dias et al. 2002 1.14 0.38 – 3162 – – – –

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

Visualization

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