Estimating the ages of open star clusters from properties of their extended tidal tails
František Dinnbier,
Pavel Kroupa,
Ladislav Šubr
et al.
Abstract:The most accurate current methods for determining the ages of open star clusters, stellar associations and stellar streams are based on isochrone fitting or the lithium depletion boundary. We propose another method for dating these objects based on the morphology of their extended tidal tails, which have been recently discovered around several open star clusters. Assuming that the early-appearing tidal tails, the so called tidal tails I, originate from the stars released from the cluster during early gas expul… Show more
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