3D IMAGE OF POLARIS FIELD STARS

We present a three-dimensional model of the positions of 20 stars in the field of the Cepheid UMi (Polaris) – 18 main sequence stars (spectral types A0–G0 V), the K-giant HD 6319 (K2 III) and Polaris itself (F8 Ib) – which was created using the 3D calculator Desmos 3D, based on the calculated U, V and W components of the full velocity vector of the stars in the Galactic coordinate system. In this paper, stellar radial velocity estimates from Usenko et al. (2023) were used. Two versions of the U, V, and W components were calculated based on Gaia DR3 parallaxes and photometric parallaxes. The resulting 3D image showed that, in both scenarios, 15 main-sequence stars, a K-giant, and Polaris form a noticeable clamp, while three stars (HD 14718, HD 90162, and HD 11696) are located outside of it. HD 14718 and HD 90162 belong to the thick disk, while HD 11696 is a remnant of a possible open cluster in Polaris’s field. The K-giant HD 6319 is located inside the clamp and quite close to the Cepheid, and it is quite possible that this clamp is part of the main component of the probable open cluster Polaris, dissolved in the field of the Cepheid. Using a 3D calculator to construct a spatial image of stars may serve as a good tool for studying the structure and dynamics of open clusters in the future.