Young clusters around Cas OB5

Through this process, we found 56379 OBA stars, which we then clustered using HDBSCAN. We identified 17 open clusters inside this area, four of which appear to form a coherent structure that we identify as Cas OB5. Nevertheless, our findings suggest that these clusters belong to two different age groups despite sharing a similar position and kinematics.

Spectroscopic observations confirm the youth of NGC 7788 (10-15Myr) compared to NGC 7790 (110+/-15Myr). We have determined a spatial scale for star formation of a few tens of pc to a few hundreds of pc, comparing the clustered to the diffuse population of Cas OB5 across this part of the Perseus arm. A spectroscopic analysis was required to complement the clustering algorithm, so that we could separate younger OCs (tracers of the spiral arm) from older ones.

These results highlight the need to combine these techniques to fully disentangle the Milky Way structure.