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Caption: Figure 1.
The 3D distribution of the selected MSCs from the N. V. Kharchenko et al. (2013) catalog in Sun-centered Cartesian coordinates (X, Y, Z in kpc). Marker color encodes the cluster age, and larger markers indicate higher estimated cluster mass M cl (selection requires M cl > 103 M ⊙); the concentration near Z ≃ 0 traces the Galactic midplane.
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