Global survey of star clusters in the Milky Way - IV. 63 new open clusters detected by proper motions

R.-D. Scholz; N. V. Kharchenko; A. E. Piskunov; S. Röser; E. Schilbach

doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201526312

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Table 1

Identification of our cluster candidates.

Number	Identified	Number
of	with	of
candidates	object type	objects

155	Known clusters of galaxies	150
67	Known globular clusters	46
56	Known open clusters (Paper II)	47
21	Known open clusters (Paper III)	21
6	Unconfirmed candidates (Paper III)	6
67	New open clusters (this paper)	63
33^a	Large Magellanic Cloud	1
17^a	Small Magellanic Cloud	1
270	Not confirmed	270

Notes.

^(a)

These cluster candidates overlap with the very crowded regions of the Magellanic Clouds, where the 2MAst HQ proper motions are unreliable.

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