Abstract
Many techniques for the detection of interesting stellar structures in astronomical data sets require full phase-space or color information, which is not always available. The first data release of the GAIA satellite, for example, provided highly accurate positions and magnitudes for more than one billion sources. Therefore the question arises if such structures can also be automatically found without waiting for more detailed information in future data releases. In this contribution we propose and compare two conceptually different strategies to find globular clusters in the GAIA DR1 survey. The first approach is a nearest neighbor retrieval and the second an anomaly detection. Both techniques are able to find most of the known globular clusters within our observation frames consistently, as well as potential candidates for further investigation. Furthermore we address approximation approaches to scale the strategy to larger data.
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