The Bologna Open Clusters Chemical Evolution project (in short: BOCCE)

TL;DR

The BOCCE project uses open clusters as tracers to study the chemical evolution of the galactic disk by analyzing photometric and spectroscopic data of a large, representative sample of clusters.

Contribution

This work introduces a systematic approach to analyze open clusters homogeneously to understand the disk's chemical evolution over time.

Findings

Open clusters serve as effective tracers of disk properties.

Homogeneous data analysis enhances understanding of cluster evolution.

Preliminary results show consistent chemical patterns across clusters.

Abstract

I present here our project, the Bologna Open Clusters Chemical Evolution (BOCCE) project, aimed at using Open Clusters as tracers of the disk properties and their evolution with time. We are collecting and homogeneously analyzing data, both photometric and spectroscopic, on a large sample of open clusters, representative of the old cluster population, and I show here results obtained on a subset of our clusters.