Open clusters and the galactic disk
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S. RΓΆser; N.V. Kharchenko; A.E. Piskunov; E. Schilbach; R.-D. Scholz; H. Zinneck
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Article
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2010
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract It is textbook knowledge that open clusters are conspicuous members of the thin disk of our Galaxy, but their role as contributors to the stellar population of the disk was regarded as minor. Starting from a homogenous stellar sky survey, the ASCCβ2.5, we revisited the population of ope