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A bird's eye view of stellar evolution through populations of variable stars in Galactic open clusters
Richard I. Anderson, Emily L. Hunt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12866 ht…

A bird's eye view of stellar evolution through populations of variable stars in Galactic open clusters
Both star clusters and variable stars are sensitive laboratories of stellar astrophysics and evolution: cluster member stars provide context for interpreting cluster populations, whereas variability reveals the nature of individual stellar systems. The European Space Agency's Gaia mission has revolutionized the census of star clusters in the Milky Way, while simultaneously providing an unprecedented homogeneous all-sky catalog of variable stars. Here, we leverage the third Gaia data release to …