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Assessing the stellar population and the environment of an HII region on the far side of the Galaxy
A. -N. Chené, R. A. Benjamin, S. Ramírez Alegría +15
We have investigated the stellar and interstellar content of the distant star formation region IRAS 17591-2228 (WISE HII region GAL 007.47+0.06). It is associated to a water maser,…
VVV-WIT-04: an extragalactic variable source caught by the VVV Survey
Roberto K. Saito, Dante Minniti, Valentin D. Ivanov +8
We report the discovery of VVV-WIT-04, a near-infrared variable source towards the Galactic disk located ~0.2 arcsec apart from the position of the radio source PMN J1515-5559. The…
A near-infrared study of the multi-phase outflow in the type-2 quasar J1509+0434
Cristina Ramos Almeida, Jose A. Acosta-Pulido, Clive N. Tadhunter +3
Based on new near-infrared spectroscopic data from the instrument EMIR on the 10.4 m Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) we report the presence of an ionized and warm molecular outflow…
A parametric description of the 3D structure of the Galactic Bar/Bulge using the VVV survey
Iulia T. Simion, Vasily Belokurov, Mike Irwin +5
We study the structure of the inner Milky Way using the latest data release of the Vista Variables in Via Lactea (VVV) survey. The VVV is a deep near-infrared, multi-colour photome…
Radial motions in disk stars: ellipticity or secular flows?
M. Lopez-Corredoira, C. Gonzalez-Fernandez
Average stellar orbits of the Galactic disk may have some small intrinsic ellipticity which breaks the exact axisymmetry and there may also be some migration of stars inwards or ou…
Infrared extinction in the Inner Milky Way through the red clump giants
Carlos González-Fernández, Andrés Asensio Ramos, Francisco Garzón +2
While the shape of the extinction curve on the infrared is considered to be set and the extinction ratios between infrared bands are usually taken to be approximately constant, a r…
VVV DR1: The First Data Release of the Milky Way Bulge and Southern Plane from the Near-Infrared ESO Public Survey VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea
R. K. Saito, M. Hempel, D. Minniti +107
The ESO Public Survey VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) started in 2010. VVV targets 562 sq. deg in the Galactic bulge and an adjacent plane region and is expected to run for…
Comments on the paper `Unifying Boxy Bulge and Planar Long Bar in the Milky Way' by Martinez-Valpuesta & Gerhard [arXiv:1105.0928]
M. Lopez-Corredoira, A. Cabrera-Lavers, C. Gonzalez-Fernandez +3
We comment on the recent paper by Martinez-Valpuesta & Gerhard (arXiv:1105.0928, 2011), who suggest, as an alternative to the bulge + long bar hypothesis in the inner 4 kpc of our…
A massive association around the obscured open cluster RSGC3
Ignacio Negueruela, Carlos Gonzalez-Fernandez, Amparo Marco +1
Four clusters of red supergiants have been discovered in a region of the Milky Way close to base of the Scutum-Crux Arm and the tip of the Long Bar. Population synthesis models ind…
Another cluster of red supergiants close to RSGC1
Ignacio Negueruela, Carlos Gonzalez-Fernandez, Amparo Marco +2
Recent studies have revealed massive star clusters in a region of the Milky Way close to the tip of the Long Bar. These clusters are heavily obscured and are characterised by a pop…