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The Hipparcos mission and galactic open clusters and NGC 7538 star forming regions

Scholz, R. -D.; Piskunov, A. E.; Kharchenko, N. V. +2 more

We present some results of a study of the galactic open cluster population. This study is based on the all-sky catalogue ASCC-2.5 compiled from Tycho-2, Hipparcos and other catalogues. Screening the ASCC-2.5 resulted in the identification of 520 known clusters and the detection of 130 new ones. A uniform combined kinematic-photometric cluster memb…