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most citedThe VISTA Variables in the Vía Láctea eXtended (VVVX) ESO public survey: Completion of the observations and legacy

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astro-ph.GA2026

Euclid: Data Release 1 (DR1) -- Fornax-7, an ultra-faint companion to the Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxy? A remote star cluster or dwarf satellite of the Fornax dSph

T. Saifollahi, A. Lançon, A. M. N. Ferguson +165

We report the discovery of an ultra-faint stellar system in the vicinity of the Fornax dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxy in Euclid DR1. This system, which we designate Fornax-7, is lo…

astro-ph.GA2026

The Hubble Missing Globular Clusters Survey IV. Ultra-faint compact satellites of the Milky Way. The case of Koposov 2

M. Bellazzini, R. Pascale, E. Dodd +16

In the last decades a number of extremely faint and compact Galactic satellites (Ultra Faint Compact Satellites; UFCS) have been discovered by large panoramic surveys. Their nature…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

Euclid: Early Release Observations -- Internal kinematics and the convective-transition gap of NGC 6397

M. Griggio, M. Libralato, R. Gerasimov +130

We present a 'multiple-pass' data-reduction tool designed for Euclid, based on software developed for the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), which improves the astrometric and photometr…

astro-ph.GA2026

The Hubble Missing Globular Cluster Survey. III. Astro-photometric catalogs, artificial-star tests, and improved absolute proper motions

M. Libralato, A. Bellini, D. Massari +17

The Hubble Missing Globular Cluster Survey (MGCS) has taken one of the last opportunities to complete the census of Galactic globular clusters (GCs) started by past Hubble Space Te…

astro-ph.GA2026

Low-resolution spectroscopic characterisation of five poorly known Galactic stellar clusters

E. Ceccarelli, M. Bellazzini, D. Massari +4

Stellar clusters preserve crucial information on the formation and evolutionary processes that shaped the Milky Way (MW) as we see it today. However, several MW clusters still lack…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

The Hubble Missing Globular Cluster Survey. II. Survey membership tools and kinematic analysis of NGC 6749

L. Rosignoli, M. Libralato, R. Pascale +15

The Hubble Missing Globular Cluster Survey has secured high quality astro photometric data in two bands for 34 clusters never observed with HST. When combined with Gaia positional…

astro-ph.GA2025

Hubble Space Telescope proper motions of Large Magellanic Cloud star clusters -- II. Kinematic structure of young and intermediate-age clusters

F. Niederhofer, L. Cullinane, D. Massari +14

In this paper, we explore the kinematic properties of a sample of 19 young (<1 Gyr) and intermediate-age (1-2.5 Gyr) massive star clusters within the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC).…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

oMEGACat. VIII. A Subpopulation Census of ω Centauri

C. Clontz, A. C. Seth, Z. Wang +8

An understanding of the assembly history of the complex star cluster Omega Centauri has long been sought after, with many studies separating the stars on the color-magnitude diagra…

astro-ph.GA2025

oMEGACat. VII. Tracing Interstellar and Intracluster Medium of Centauri using Sodium Absorptions

Z. Wang, A. C. Seth, M. Latour +14

We investigate the foreground interstellar medium along the line of sight and intracluster medium of Centauri ( Cen) by measuring the equivalent width of Na I D absorptions…

astro-ph.GA2025

Cluster Ages to Reconstruct the Milky Way Assembly (CARMA) IV. Chrono-dynamics of seven old star clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud and the peculiar origin of NGC 1841

F. Niederhofer, D. Massari, F. Aguado-Agelet +15

In this study, we report conclusive evidence for an ancient star cluster that has been accreted by the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). By leveraging observations from the Hubble Spac…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

JWST imaging of omega Centauri -- I. Luminosity and mass functions of its main sequence populations

M. Scalco, R. Gerasimov, L. R. Bedin +10

This paper presents the first study of the most massive globular cluster (GC) in the Milky Way, omega Centauri, employing recently acquired JWST deep images. By combining these dat…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 8 cited

The Missing Globular Cluster Survey. I. Survey overview and the first precise age estimate for ESO452-11 and 2MASS-GC01

D. Massari, M. Bellazzini, M. Libralato +17

We present the Missing Globular Cluster Survey (MGCS), a Treasury Program dedicated to the observation of all kinematically confirmed Milky Wa…

astro-ph.GA2024

oMEGACat V: Helium Enrichment in Centauri as a Function of Metallicity

C. Clontz, A. C. Seth, Z. Wang +12

Constraining the helium enhancement in stars is critical for understanding the formation mechanisms of multiple populations in star clusters. However, measuring helium variations f…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 10 cited

Energy equipartition in multiple-population globular clusters

A. R. Livernois, F. I. Aros, E. Vesperini +7

We present the results of Monte Carlo simulations aimed at exploring the evolution towards energy equipartition of first- (1G) and second-generation (2G) stars in multiple-populati…

astro-ph.GA2024

oMEGACat IV: Constraining Ages of Omega Centauri sub-giant branch stars with HST and MUSE

C. Clontz, A. C. Seth, A. Dotter +13

We present age estimates for over 8100 sub-giant branch (SGB) stars in Omega Centauri ( Cen) to study its star formation history. Our large data set, which combines multi-wavele…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 38 cited

The VISTA Variables in the Vía Láctea eXtended (VVVX) ESO public survey: Completion of the observations and legacy

R. K. Saito, M. Hempel, J. Alonso-García +143

The ESO public survey VISTA Variables in the Vía Láctea (VVV) surveyed the inner Galactic bulge and the adjacent southern Galactic disk from . Upon its conclusion, the c…