Conveners
Stars and star clusters
- Ching-Ping Hu (National Changhua University of Education)
Our ultimate goal is to enhance our understanding of planet formation by identifying the youngest exoplanets orbiting T Tauri Stars (TTSs), systems typically aged around or below 5 Myr. Detecting planets around TTSs poses significant challenges because of the strong stellar activity and interference from protoplanetary disks. Stellar spots, prominent on young stars, generate strong radial...
The presence of old open clusters but remaining rich in members challenges the conventional view that such systems dissociate within 1 Gyr in the typically inhospitable Galactic disk. We present a study of eight such clusters—Collinder 261, NGC 2158, NGC 2477, NGC 2506, NGC 6791, NGC 6819, NGC 7786, and Trumpler 5—each with an age comparable to those of globular clusters yet harbors thousands...