8 papers
Extinction law and stellar mass in the Nuclear Bulge from kinematically-selected red clump stars
Á. Valenzuela Navarro, M. Zoccali, E. Valenti +10
The Nuclear Bulge of the Milky Way harbors stellar populations that provide crucial insights into galaxy formation processes and serve as a nearby analog for understanding bulge fo…
Chemical radial gradients for the bulge-bar stellar populations from the APOGEE survey
J. V. Sales-Silva, K. Cunha, V. V. Smith +20
The Milky Way bulge-bar is composed of multiple populations. Using chemical and kinematical planes, we segregate six populations in a bulge-bar sample observed by the APOGEE survey…
On the Use of Field RR Lyrae as Galactic Probes -- VIII. Early Formation of the Galactic Spheroid
G. Bono, V. F. Braga, M. Fabrizio +54
We introduce a new photometric catalog of RR Lyrae variables (RRLs, 300,000) mainly based on data available in public datasets. We also present the largest and most homogeneo…
A clustering-based search for substructures in the Galactic plane and bulge using RR Lyrae stars as tracers
N. Cristi-Cambiaso, C. Navarrete, M. Catelan +2
Although many globular clusters (GCs) have been identified in the Galaxy, their population is estimated to be incomplete, especially in regions with strong crowding and interstella…
Infrared photometry and CaT spectroscopy of the most metal-poor in-situ globular cluster VVV-CL001
W. Haro Moya, C. Moni Bidin, M. C. Parisi +11
Globular clusters in the Galactic bulge are difficult to study due to high extinction and severe crowding. VVV-CL001 is an old, metal-poor, and fast cluster in the inner bulge, who…
Abundances of P, S, and K in 58 bulge spheroid stars from APOGEE
B. Barbuy, H. Ernandes, A. C. S. Friaça +25
We have previously studied several elements in 58 selected bulge spheroid stars, based on spectral lines in the H-band. We now derive the abundances of the less-studied elements ph…