UBC 255
0.77
UTI
0.67
CN
1.0
Cdens
1.0
CC3
0.6
Clit
1.0
Cdup
Radius (P>50% members)
14.0 [arcmin]
- CN 0.67 Moderately populated
- Cdens 1.0 Very dense
- CC3 1.0 Very high quality
- Clit 0.6 Moderately studied
- Cdup 1.0 Unique
Overview
UBC 255 is a moderately populated, very dense object of very high C3 quality. Its parallax locates it at a close distance, below the mid-plane, affected by low extinction. It is catalogued as a near-solar metallicity, old cluster, but with a large variance across recent sources for the absorption and metallicity parameters (see Parameters). It is moderately studied in the literature.
Close
Low extinction
Near-solar metallicity
Old
Data
| Reference | Year | RA [deg] | DEC [deg] | Plx [mas] | pmRA [mas/yr] | pmDE [mas/yr] | Rv [km/s] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UCC | â | 128.551 | -61.478 | 1.063 | -4.853 | 2.863 | -11.901 |
| Li et al. | 2025 | 128.456 | -61.463 | 1.049 | -4.882 | 2.831 | â |
| Hu & Soubiran | 2025 | 128.579 | -61.499 | â | â | â | â |
| Alfonso et al. | 2024 | 128.61 | -61.466 | 1.031 | -4.842 | 2.874 | â |
| Hunt & Reffert | 2024 | 128.553 | -61.466 | 1.061 | -4.878 | 2.892 | -13.585 |
| Cavallo et al. | 2024 | 128.579 | -61.499 | 1.062 | â | â | â |
| Hunt & Reffert | 2023 | 128.553 | -61.466 | 1.061 | -4.878 | 2.892 | -13.585 |
| He et al. | 2022 | 128.529 | -61.462 | 1.058 | -4.832 | 2.891 | â |
| Tarricq et al. | 2022 | 128.54 | -61.44 | 1.067 | -4.852 | 2.863 | â |
| Cantat-Gaudin et al. | 2020 | 128.456 | -61.463 | 1.049 | -4.882 | 2.831 | â |
| Castro-Ginard et al. | 2020 | 128.471 | -61.465 | 1.047 | -4.868 | 2.82 | â |
đĄ 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Li et al. | 2025 | 0.95 | 0.67 | â | 2113 | -0.232 | â | â | â |
| Hu & Soubiran | 2025 | â | â | â | â | -0.220* | â | â | â |
| Alfonso et al. | 2024 | 0.89 | 0.00 | â | 2421 | 0.011 | â | â | â |
| Hunt & Reffert | 2024 | â | â | â | â | â | 97* | â | â |
| Cavallo et al. | 2024 | 0.91 | 0.65 | â | 1549 | 0.240 | â | â | â |
| Hunt & Reffert | 2023 | 0.91 | 0.42 | 0.85 | 975 | â | â | â | â |
| He et al. | 2022 | â | 0.55 | â | 1995 | â | â | â | â |
| Tarricq et al. | 2022 | 0.87 | â | â | 2512 | â | â | â | â |
| Cantat-Gaudin et al. | 2020 | 0.89 | 0.00 | â | 2399 | â | â | â | â |
(*): Indicates that this parameter is assigned more than one value in the corresponding reference.


Cavallo et al. (2024)
Gold sample.