Theia 38

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0.42 UTI
0.25
CN
0.8
Cdens
0.75
CC3
0.16
Clit
1.0
Cdup
Core radius and density 1.0 [pc], 4.0 [pc-2]
  • CN 0.25 Poorly populated
  • Cdens 0.8 Dense
  • CC3 0.75 High quality
  • Clit 0.16 Rarely studied
  • Cdup 1.0 Unique

Overview

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Theia 38 is a poorly populated, dense object of high C3 quality. Its parallax locates it at a very close distance, near the mid-plane, affected by low extinction. It is catalogued as a near-solar metallicity, very young cluster (see Parameters). It is rarely studied in the literature.

Note: This object shares a large percentage of members with 2 later reported entries. See table with shared members information.

Yan et al. (2026)
Number of WDs: expected from single-star evolution N=0, with probability of formation through binary evolution >=0.5 N=5.

Palma et al. (2025)
Classified as optical pair P580, along with Theia_738.

Cavallo et al. (2024)
Gold sample.

Hunt & Reffert (2024)
Classified as open cluster. CMD class: 0.86 (50th percentile).

Hunt & Reffert (2023)
Classified as open cluster. CMD class: 0.86 (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– 291.815 21.143 2.02 1.228 -6.402 19.114
Yan et al. 2026 291.745 21.117 1.981 1.181 -6.101 –
Zhang et al. 2024 291.745 21.117 – – – –
Swiggum et al. 2024 291.745 21.117 1.981 1.181 -6.101 -10.154
Hunt & Reffert 2024 291.745 21.117 1.981 1.181 -6.101 -11.229
Cavallo et al. 2024 290.753 22.222 1.979 – – –
Hunt & Reffert 2023 291.745 21.117 1.981 1.181 -6.101 -11.229
Kounkel & Covey 2019 290.537 22.404 2.01 – – 11.123

💡 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– 0.5 0.885 2.05 6 -0.085 816 – –
Yan et al. 2026 – – – 21 – – – –
Zhang et al. 2024 – – – – 0.030(1) – – –
Swiggum et al. 2024 0.50 – – 6 – 1201 – –
Hunt & Reffert 2024 0.49 0.77 2.05 6 – 430(1) – –
Cavallo et al. 2024 0.53 1.53 – 4 -0.200 – – –
Hunt & Reffert 2023 0.49 0.77 2.05 6 – – – –
Kounkel & Covey 2019 0.50 1.00 – 13 – – – –

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

Cluster % RA DEC Plx pmRA pmDE Rv UTI
OCSN 13 100.0 291.75 21.11 2.0 1.55 -6.64 -10.02 0.33
OC 0083 40.0 291.76 21.1 1.99 1.58 -6.74 -8.47 0.48

💡 Note: The % column shows the percentage of members that Theia 38 shares with each listed object.

Visualization

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