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most citedVVV 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

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astro-ph.SR2025

The Gaia Ultracool Dwarf Sample -- VI. Spectral Types and Properties of 51 Ultracool Dwarfs

Gemma Cheng, H. R. A. Jones, R. L. Smart +7

Near-infrared spectra from the IRTF/SpeX and Blanco/ARCoIRIS telescope/instrument combinations are used for spectroscopic classification, to measure radial velocities and for the i…

astro-ph.SR2024

Accretion Funnel Reconfiguration during an Outburst in a Young Stellar Object: EX Lupi

Koshvendra Singh, Joe P. Ninan, Marina M. Romanova +14

EX Lupi, a low-mass young stellar object, went into an accretion-driven outburst in March of 2022. The outburst caused a sudden phase change of ~ 112 5 in…

astro-ph.SR2023

A Benchmark White Dwarf-Ultracool Dwarf Wide Field Binary

Thiago Ferreira, Roberto K. Saito, Dante Minniti +8

We present the discovery and multi-wavelength characterisation of VVV J1438-6158 AB, a new field wide-binary system consisting of a 4.6(+5.5-2.4) Gyr and Teff = 9500+/-125 K DA whi…

astro-ph.SR2023

VVV-WIT-12 and its fashionable nebula: a four year long period Young Stellar Object with a light echo?

Roberto K. Saito, Bringfried Stecklum, Dante Minniti +7

We report the serendipitous discovery of VVV-WIT-12, an unusual variable source that seems to induce variability in its surrounding nebula. The source belongs to the rare objects t…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 8 cited

VVVX near-IR photometry for 99 low-mass stars in the Gaia EDR3 Catalog of Nearby Stars

Andrea Mejías, Dante Minniti, Javier Alonso-García +3

Red dwarf stars, which represent 75% of stars in the Milky Way, can be studied in great detail in the solar neighborhood where the sample is more complete. We intend to better char…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 6 cited

Serendipitous discovery of a dusty disc around WDJ181417.84-735459.83

E. González Egea, R. Raddi, D. Koester +8

Spectroscopic observations of white dwarfs reveal that many of them are polluted by exoplanetary material, whose bulk composition can be uniquely probed this way. We present a spec…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 18 cited

The VVV Infrared Variability Catalog (VIVA-I)

C. E. Ferreira Lopes, N. J. G. Cross, M. Catelan +17

Thanks to the VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) ESO Public Survey it is now possible to explore a large number of objects in those regions. This paper addresses the variabili…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 52 cited

The Gaia Ultra-Cool Dwarf Sample -- II: Structure at the end of the main sequence

R. L. Smart, F. Marocco, L. M. Sarro +4

We identify and investigate known late M, L and T dwarfs in the Gaia second data release. This sample is being used as a training set in the Gaia data processing chain of the ultra…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 10 cited

VVV-WIT-07: another Boyajian's star or a Mamajek's object?

Roberto K. Saito, Dante Minniti, Valentin D. Ivanov +6

We report the discovery of VVV-WIT-07, an unique and intriguing variable source presenting a sequence of recurrent dips with a likely deep eclipse in July 2012. The object was foun…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 16 cited

Sub-millimeter non-contaminated detection of the disk around TWA\,7 by ALMA

A. Bayo, J. Olofsson, L. Matra +9

Debris disks can be seen as the left-overs of giant planet formation and the possible nurseries of rocky planets. While M-type stars out-number more massive stars we know very litt…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 61 cited

The Gaia Ultracool Dwarf Sample. I. Known L and T dwarfs and the first Gaia data release

R. L. Smart, F. Marocco, J. A. Caballero +5

We identify and investigate known ultracool stars and brown dwarfs that are being observed or indirectly constrained by the Gaia mission. These objects will be the core of the Gaia…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 1 cited

Near-IR trigonometric parallaxes of nearby stars in the Galactic plane using the VVV

J. C. Beamin, R. A. Mendez, R. L. Smart +7

We use the multi-epoch K band observations, covering a 5 years baseline to obtain milli and sub-milli arcsec precision astrometry for a sample of eighteen previously…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 1 cited

High proper motion objects towards the inner Milky Way: characterisation of newly identified nearby stars from the VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea Survey

M. Gromadzki, R. Kurtev, J. C. Beamin +10

The census of the Solar neighbourhood is still incomplete, as demonstrated by recent discoveries of many objects within 5-10 pc from the Sun. The area around the mid-plane and bulg…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 14 cited

VVV High proper motion stars I. The catalogue of bright Ks < 13.5 stars

R. Kurtev, M. Gromadzki, J. C. Beamin +14

Knowledge of the stellar content near the Sun is important for a broad range of topics ranging from the search for planets to the study of Milky Way structure. The most powerful me…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 23 cited

Temperature constraints on the coldest brown dwarf known WISE 0855-0714

J. C. Beamín, V. D. Ivanov, A. Bayo +10

Context. Nearby isolated planetary mass objects are beginning to be discovered, but their individual properties are poorly constrained because their low surface temperatures and st…

astro-ph.SR2013

VVV High Proper Motion Survey

M. Gromadzki, R. Kurtev, S. Folkes +7

Here we present survey of proper motion stars towards the Galactic Bulge and an adjacent plane region base on VISTA-VVV data. The searching method based on cross-matching photometr…