In 2012 Gu{a}vruc{t}a introduced the notions of $K$-frame and of atomic system for a linear bounded operator $K$ in a Hilbert space $mathcal{H}$, in order to decompose its range $mathcal{R}(K)$ with a frame-like expansion. In this article we revisit these concepts for an unbounded and densely defined operator $A:mathcal{D}(A)tomathcal{H}$ in two different ways. In one case we consider a non-Bessel sequence where the coefficient sequence depends continuously on $finmathcal{D}(A)$ with respect to the norm of $mathcal{H}$. In the other case we consider a Bessel sequence and the coefficient sequence depends continuously on $finmathcal{D}(A)$ with respect to the graph norm of $A$.