Issue |
A&A
Volume 612, April 2018
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Article Number | A70 | |
Number of page(s) | 39 | |
Section | Galactic structure, stellar clusters and populations | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201731996 | |
Published online | 27 April 2018 |
The seven sisters DANCe
III. Projected spatial distribution
1
Dpt. de Inteligencia Artificial, UNED,
Juan del Rosal, 16,
28040
Madrid, Spain
e-mail: lsb@dia.uned.es
2
Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IPAG,
38000
Grenoble, France
e-mail: Javier.Olivares@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr
3
Laboratoire d’astrophysique de Bordeaux, Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS,
B18N, allée Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire,
33615
Pessac, France
4
Depto. Astrofísica, Centro de Astrobiología (INTA-CSIC),
ESAC campus, Camino bajo del castillo s/n,
28692
Villanueva de la Cañada, Spain
5
Dpt. Statistics and Operations Research, University of Cádiz,
Campus Universitario Río San Pedro s/n,
11510
Puerto Real,
Cádiz, Spain
6
Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, CNRS UMR 7095 and UPMC,
98bis bd Arago,
75014
Paris, France
Received:
26
September
2017
Accepted:
23
November
2017
Context. Membership analyses of the DANCe and Tycho + DANCe data sets provide the largest and least contaminated sample of Pleiades candidate members to date.
Aims. We aim at reassessing the different proposals for the number surface density of the Pleiades in the light of the new and most complete list of candidate members, and inferring the parameters of the most adequate model.
Methods. We compute the Bayesian evidence and Bayes Factors for variations of the classical radial models. These include elliptical symmetry, and luminosity segregation. As a by-product of the model comparison, we obtain posterior distributions for each set of model parameters.
Results. We find that the model comparison results depend on the spatial extent of the region used for the analysis. For a circle of 11.5 parsecs around the cluster centre (the most homogeneous and complete region), we find no compelling reason to abandon King’s model, although the Generalised King model introduced here has slightly better fitting properties. Furthermore, we find strong evidence against radially symmetric models when compared to the elliptic extensions. Finally, we find that including mass segregation in the form of luminosity segregation in the J band is strongly supported in all our models.
Conclusions. We have put the question of the projected spatial distribution of the Pleiades cluster on a solid probabilistic framework, and inferred its properties using the most exhaustive and least contaminated list of Pleiades candidate members available to date. Our results suggest however that this sample may still lack about 20% of the expected number of cluster members. Therefore, this study should be revised when the completeness and homogeneity of the data can be extended beyond the 11.5 parsecs limit. Such a study will allow for more precise determination of the Pleiades spatial distribution, its tidal radius, ellipticity, number of objects and total mass.
Key words: astrometry / open clusters and associations: individual: M 45 / infrared: stars / methods: data analysis / methods: statistical
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