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most citedThe Astropy Project: Sustaining and Growing a Community-oriented Open-source Project and the Latest Major Release (v5.0) of the Core Package

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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…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 13 cited

A Color-Excess Extinction map of the Southern Galactic disk from the VVV and GLIMPSE Surveys

M. Soto, R. Barbá, D. Minniti +24

An improved high-resolution and deep A foreground dust extinction map is presented for the Galactic disk area within , $-1.0^{\c…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 12 cited

The First Galaxy Cluster Discovered by the VISTA Variables in the Vía Láctea Survey

L. D. Baravalle, J. L. Nilo Castellón, M. V. Alonso +12

We report the first confirmed detection of the galaxy cluster VVV-J144321-611754 at very low latitudes (l = 315.836, b = -1.650) located in the tile d015 of the…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 15 cited

The long bar as seen by the VVV Survey: II. Star counts

Eduardo Amôres, Martín López-Corredoira, Carlos González-Fernández +3

Context: There is still some debate about the presence and the morphological properties of the long bar in the inner Galaxy. Aims: We investigate the morphological properties of th…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 18 cited

Galaxies behind the Galactic plane: First results and perspectives from the VVV Survey

E. B. Amôres, L. Sodré, D. Minniti +8

Vista Variables in The Via Lactea (VVV) is an ESO variability survey that is performing observations in near infrared bands (ZYJHKs) towards the Galactic bulge and part of the disk…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 409 cited

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…