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Binary Systems Within Star Clusters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 April 2012

Ernst Paunzen
Affiliation:
Rozhen National Astronomical Observatory, Institute of Astronomy of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 136, BG-4700 Smolyan, Bulgaria email: ernst.paunzen@univie.ac.at Institut für Astronomie der Universität Wien, Türkenschanzstrasse 17, A-1180 Wien, Austria
Christian Stütz
Affiliation:
Institut für Astronomie der Universität Wien, Türkenschanzstrasse 17, A-1180 Wien, Austria
Bernhard Baumann
Affiliation:
Institut für Astronomie der Universität Wien, Türkenschanzstrasse 17, A-1180 Wien, Austria
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Abstract

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WEBDA (http://www.univie.ac.at/webda) is a site devoted to observational data of stellar clusters in the Milky Way and the Small Magellanic Cloud. It is intended to provide a reliable presentation of the available data and knowledge about these objects. The success of WEBDA is documented by its worldwide usage and the related acknowledgements in the literature: more than 650 refereed publications within the last twelve years acknowledged its use. It collects all published data for stars in open clusters that may be useful either to determine membership, or to study the stellar content and properties of the clusters.

The database content includes astrometric data in the form of coordinates, rectangular positions, and proper motions, photometric data in the major systems in which star clusters have been observed, but also spectroscopic data like spectral classification, radial velocities, and rotational velocities. It also contains miscellaneous types of supplementary data like membership probabilities, orbital elements of spectroscopic binaries, and periods for different kinds of variable stars as well as an extensive bibliography. Several powerful tools help to plot, query and extract the data, which can be directly retrieved via http. At the time of writing, about four million individual measurements have been included in the database. The Star Clusters Young & Old Newsletter (SCYON), a bi-monthly newsletter devoted to star cluster research with about 600 subscribers, is hosted in parallel with the database.

We present the current and upcoming new interface and tools, which are needed to visualize and analyze the increasing amount of data from all-sky surveys, and deeper investigations of binary systems, low mass dwarfs, as well as planet-hosting stars.

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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2012