Saurer 5

(MWSC 3149)

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0.29 UTI
0.0
CN
0.07
Cdens
0.62
CC3
0.38
Clit
1.0
Cdup
Radius (P>50% members) 1.7 [arcmin]
  • CN 0.0 Sparse
  • Cdens 0.07 Very loose
  • CC3 0.62 Intermediate quality
  • Clit 0.38 Poorly studied
  • Cdup 1.0 Unique

Overview

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Saurer 5 is a sparse, very loose object of intermediate C3 quality. Its parallax locates it at a very large* distance, above the mid-plane, affected by high extinction. It is catalogued as an intermediate-age cluster (see Parameters). It is poorly studied in the literature.

(*): The parallax distance estimate (~13.79 kpc) differs significantly from the median photometric distance (~5.28 kpc).

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

Very distant High extinction Intermediate age

Data

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Reference Year RA [deg] DEC [deg] Plx [mas] pmRA [mas/yr] pmDE [mas/yr] Rv [km/s]
UCC – 294.868 25.638 0.072 -2.266 -4.37 –
Just et al. 2023 294.89 25.649 – – – –
Bica et al. 2019 294.883 25.642 – – – –
Loktin & Popova 2017 294.885 25.652 – -1.397 -4.444 –
Kharchenko et al. 2016 294.89 25.649 – – – –
Kharchenko et al. 2013 294.895 25.652 – -1.41 -3.17 –
Dias et al. 2002 294.879 25.645 – -6.11 5.06 –

💡 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
Just et al. 2023 – – – 741 – 210 – –
Loktin & Popova 2017 2.11 2.10 – 251 – – – –
Kharchenko et al. 2016 5.28 3.74 – 741 – – – –
Kharchenko et al. 2013 5.28 3.74 – 741 – – – –
Dias et al. 2002 8.33 3.56 – 1122 – – – –
Cluster % RA DEC Plx pmRA pmDE Rv UTI
CWNU 3858 68.0 294.87 25.64 0.07 -2.15 -4.26 -75.92 0.41

💡 Note: The % column shows the percentage of members that Saurer 5 shares with each listed object.

Visualization

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