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20072020
most citedVISTA Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV): The public ESO near-IR variability survey of the Milky Way

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34 papers

astro-ph.GA2020★ 8 cited

H fluxes and extinction distances for planetary nebulae in the IPHAS survey of the Northern Galactic Plane

Thavisha E. Dharmawardena, M. J. Barlow, J. E. Drew +7

We report H filter photometry for 197 northern hemisphere planetary nebulae (PNe) obtained using imaging data from the IPHAS survey. H+[N II] fluxes were measured for 46 conf…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 6 cited

A and F stars as probes of outer Galactic disc kinematics

A. Harris, J. E. Drew, H. J. Farnhill +5

Previous studies of the rotation law in the outer Galactic disc have mainly used gas tracers or clump giants. Here, we explore A and F stars as alternatives: these provide a much d…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 19 cited

Large-scale three-dimensional Gaussian process extinction mapping

S. E. Sale, J. Magorrian

Gaussian processes are the ideal tool for modelling the Galactic ISM, combining statistical flexibility with a good match to the underlying physics. In an earlier paper we outlined…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 55 cited

Kinematic Detection of the Galactic Nuclear Disc

Ralph Schönrich, Michael Aumer, Stuart E. Sale

We report the detection of the Galactic nuclear disc in line-of-sight kinematics of stars, measured with infrared spectroscopy from APOGEE. This stellar component of the nuclear di…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 8 cited

Three-dimensional extinction mapping and selection effects

S. E. Sale

Selection effects can bedevil the inference of the properties of a population of astronomical catalogues, unavoidably biasing the observed catalogue. This is particularly true when…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 25 cited

New OB star candidates in the Carina Arm around Westerlund 2 from VPHAS+

M. Mohr-Smith, J. E. Drew, G. Barentsen +12

O and early B stars are at the apex of galactic ecology, but in the Milky Way, only a minority of them may yet have been identified. We present the results of a pilot study to sele…