Young Field and Cluster Samples


[originally assembled for FEPS by eric mamajek February 2001]


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Young Nearby Star Clusters & Associations

List is ordered by distance from the Sun. Italicized distances are from Hipparcos.

Ages are best recent estimates, and italicized ages are from the Lithium Depletion Boundary (LDB) method. Italicized ages with a * are simply 1.6 times the most recent non-LDB method ages. This factor comes from the new estimates of the ages for IC 2391, Pleiades and alpha Persei clusters, which increased the classical age estimates by 50-65%.
CLUSTER/ASSOC DIST Age Gal Lat Notes / Membership
AB Dor 15 80-120 -33
Beta Pic 10-50 10-20 +17
Her-Lyr ? ? -33 Fuhrmann 2004
Ursa Major 20-25 162-300 +60
Castor 5-30 100-300 +22
Tucanae 45 10-40 widespread probable and improbable members of Zuckerman & Webb 2000
Hyades 46 650 -22
TW Hya 55 10 widespread around +23
Horologium 60 30 ? Torres et al. 2000
MBM 12 ~60-100 <10 -34.3
Coma Ber 87 ~600? +84.0
Eta Cha 97 8 -21.7
Epsilon Cha 108 5-15 -15.6
a Car 130 60 -7 Platais et al 1998; 11 B2-F5 members only
Pleiades 118 125 -23.5
Lower Cen Crux 118 11 +5
Upper Cen Lup 140 15 +10
Upper Sco 145 5 +18
Lupus T Assn 160 <10 +10
Rho Oph OB Assn 150 0-2? +16.5
Tau-Aur T Assn 140 <10 ?
Cha I T Assn 160 <2 -15.6
Cha II T Assn 180 <10 -14.4
Praesepe/M44 181 400-900 +32.5
IC 2602/Theta Car 152 35(56*) -4.9
IC 2391/Omicron Vel 146 53 -6.9 note Platais et al 2007 membership study
Alpha Per 191 65
90
-7.1
Cas-Tau 180 70-90 -10
NGC 2451A 189 36-100 -6.7
NGC 6475/M7 280 129-224 -4.5
IC 348/Omicron Per 261 0.5-12 -17.7
Blanco 1/Zeta Scu 263 90(145*) -79.3
Collinder 135 276 80? -11.2
Stock 2 303 800? -1.9
NGC 7092/M39 311 269-407 -2.2
Delta Lyra/Stephenson 1 315 25-40 +15.5
NGC 2232 325 22-71 -7.4
IC 4756 330 600 +5.3
Ruprecht 98 335 500? -2.2
NGC 2264 350 3-20 +2.2
Collinder 463 350 300? +9.4
Roslund 5 350 100? +0.3
NGC 752 364 2000? -23.4
IC 4665 327-430 36-40 +17.1
NGC 6633 383 450? +8.3
NGC 1662 395 300? -21.1
Collinder 140 410 22-40 -7.9
Trumpler 10 365 15-47 +0.6
NGC 2451B 360 100 +3.4 Baumgardt 1998says it probably doesn't exist, but Platais et al 1998 recovered a membership of 5 through HIP.
NGC 2516 346 62-126 -15.9
Collinder 132 411 78 -9.2
NGC 1901 415 830? -33.6
NGC 2547 433 23-55 -8.5
Gamma Vel 440 2-4 -7.7
Sigma Ori 480 2-4 -17.3
Lambda Ori 480 4-5 -12.0
Orion A/M42/NGC 1976 399 13 -19.4
Orion B/NGC 2024 ? ? -16.4
NGC 1039/M34 440-501 250(400) -15.6
NGC 2164 466 100 -6.0
NGC 6494/M23 475 340 +2.9
NGC 2422/M47 498 78-100 +3.1
NGC 3532 405 251-347 +1.4
NGC 6405/M6 484 100 -0.7
Collinder 121 556-592 1.5-10 -10.4