The Sun was not born in M 67
Barbara Pichardo, Edmundo Moreno, Christine Allen, Luigi R. Bedin,, Andrea Bellini, Luca Pasquini

TL;DR
This study uses detailed orbital simulations to investigate whether the Sun originated from the open cluster M 67, concluding it is highly unlikely due to high encounter velocities and low ejection probabilities.
Contribution
The paper provides the first comprehensive dynamical analysis ruling out M 67 as the Sun's birth cluster using advanced orbital modeling and Monte Carlo simulations.
Findings
High relative velocities (>20 km/s) between Sun and M 67 make ejection unlikely.
Low probability (<10^-7) of Sun being ejected from M 67 by molecular cloud encounters.
M 67 and the Sun did not form in the same molecular cloud.
Abstract
Using the most recent proper-motion determination of the old, Solar-metallicity, Galactic open cluster M 67, in orbital computations in a non-axisymmetric model of the Milky Way, including a bar and 3D spiral arms, we explore the possibility that the Sun once belonged to this cluster. We have performed Monte Carlo numerical simulations to generate the present-day orbital conditions of the Sun and M 67, and all the parameters in the Galactic model. We compute 3.5 \times 10^5 pairs of orbits Sun-M 67 looking for close encounters in the past with a minimum distance approach within the tidal radius of M 67. In these encounters we find that the relative velocity between the Sun and M 67 is larger than 20 km/s. If the Sun had been ejected from M 67 with this high velocity by means of a three-body encounter, this interaction would destroy an initial circumstellar disk around the Sun, or…
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