| Issue |
A&A
Volume 384, Number 2, MarchIII 2002
|
|
|---|---|---|
| Page(s) | 403 - 407 | |
| Section | Galactic structure, stellar clusters, and populations | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20020018 | |
| Published online | 15 March 2002 | |
Search for star clusters close to the Galactic plane with DENIS*
CNRS UMR 6091, Observatoire de Besançon, BP 1615, 25010 Besançon Cedex, France e-mail: annie.robin@obs-besancon.fr
Corresponding author: C. Reylé, celine@obs-besancon.fr
Received:
6
November
2001
Accepted:
2
January
2002
An automated search for star clusters close to the Galactic
plane (
) was carried out on the Point Source Catalogue of the
DENIS survey. 44% of the Galactic plane have been
observed and calibrated. The method allowed to retrieve 22 known star
clusters and to identify two new ones, not published yet although previously
presented in the 2MASS web site as embedded clusters in HII regions.
Extinction in the field and in front of the clusters are estimated using a
model of population synthesis. We present the method and give the properties of
these clusters.
Key words: Galaxy: open clusters and associations: general / Galaxy: globular clusters: general
© ESO, 2002
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