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most citedVISTA Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV): The public ESO near-IR variability survey of the Milky Way

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135 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

A Newly Discovered VVVX Star Cluster Surfing the Galactic Disk

Elisa R. Garro, José G. Fernández-Trincado, Casmir O. Obasi +15

We report the discovery of Garro 04, a previously unidentified stellar cluster toward the Galactic disc, uncovered as part of the ESO/KMOS VVVX-GalCen Spectroscopic Survey. This ob…

astro-ph.SR2026

Unresolved triple systems in the aged open cluster Trumpler 19: Discovery, confirmation, and implications

D. Minniti, R. K. Saito, V. D. Ivanov +31

It is difficult to identify unresolved triple and higher-order systems beyond the solar vicinity. Star clusters yield controlled environments with known physical parameters, provid…

astro-ph.GA2023

Roman Early-Definition Astrophysics Survey Opportunity: Galactic Roman Infrared Plane Survey (GRIPS)

Roberta Paladini, Catherine Zucker, Robert Benjamin +67

A wide-field near-infrared survey of the Galactic disk and bulge/bar(s) is supported by a large representation of the community of Galactic astronomers. The combination of sensitiv…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 7 cited

Kinematics of stellar substructures in the Small Magellanic Cloud

Dalal El Youssoufi, Maria-Rosa L. Cioni, Nikolay Kacharov +6

We present a kinematic analysis of the Small Magellanic Cloud using 3700 spectra extracted from the European Southern Observatory archive. We used data from Gaia and near-infrared…

physics.soc-ph2022

United by skies, divided by language -- astronomy publishing in languages with small reader base

Valentin D. Ivanov

The mysteries of the Universe are international, the skies are not crossed by borders. However, the knowledge is transmitted by language, imposing linguistic barriers that are ofte…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 9 cited

The VMC Survey -- XLIX. Discovery of a population of quasars dominated by nuclear dust emission behind the Magellanic Clouds

Clara M. Pennock, Jacco Th. van Loon, Joy O. Anih +14

Following the discovery of SAGE0536AGN ( 0.14), with the strongest 10-m silicate emission ever observed for an Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN), we discovered SAGE0534AGN (…