Improving the open cluster census. II.

We recover 7200 clusters, 2420 of which are candidate new objects and 4780 of which crossmatch to objects in the literature, including 134 globular clusters. A more stringent cut of our catalogue contains 4114 highly reliable clusters, 749 of which are new. Owing to the scope of our methodology, we are able to tentatively suggest that many of the clusters we are unable to detect may not be real, including 1152 clusters from the Milky Way Star Cluster (MWSC) catalogue that should have been detectable in Gaia data.

Our cluster membership lists include many new members and often include tidal tails. Our catalogue's distribution traces the galactic warp, the spiral arm structure, and the dust distribution of the Milky Way. While much of the content of our catalogue contains bound open and globular clusters, as many as a few thousand of our clusters are more compatible with unbound moving groups, which we will classify in an upcoming work.

We have conducted the largest search for open clusters to date, producing a single homogeneous star cluster catalogue which we make available with this paper.