A massive open cluster hiding in full sight
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2021
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Royal Astronomical Society
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Instituto de Fisica y Astronomia
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Obscuration and confusion conspire to limit our knowledge of the inner MilkyWay. Even atmoderate distances, the identification of stellar systems becomes compounded by the extremely high density of background sources. Here, we provide a very revealing example of these complications by unveiling a large, massive, young cluster in the Sagittarius arm that has escaped detection until now despite containing more than 30 stars brighter than G = 13. By combining Gaia DR2 astrometry, Gaia and 2MASS photometry, and optical spectroscopy, we find that the new cluster, which we name Valparaiso 1, located at ∼ 2.3 kpc, is about 75 Ma old and includes a large complement of evolved stars, among which we highlight the 4 d classical Cepheid CM Sct and an M-type giant that probably represents the first detection of an asymptotic giant branch star in a Galactic young open cluster. Although strong differential reddening renders accurate parameter determination unfeasible with the current data set, direct comparison to clusters of similar age suggests that Valparaiso 1 was born as one of the most massive clusters in the solar neighbourhood, with an initial mass close to 104M .
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STARS: EVOLUTION, HERTZSPRUNG, RUSSELL AND COLOUR, MAGNITUDE DIAGRAMS, SUPERGIANTS, STARS: VARIABLES: CEPHEIDS, OPEN CLUSTERS AND ASSOCIATIONS: INDIVIDUAL: VALPARAISO 1.
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© 2021 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society