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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…
CAPOS: The bulge Cluster APOgee Survey IV. Elemental Abundances of the bulge globular cluster NGC 6558
Danilo González-Díaz, José G. Fernández-Trincado, Sandro Villanova +12
This study presents the results concerning six red giant stars members of the globular cluster NGC 6558. Our analysis utilized high-resolution near-infrared spectra obtained throug…
Ca Triplet Metallicities and Velocities for twelve Globular Clusters towards the Galactic Bulge
D. Geisler, M. C. Parisi, B. Dias +6
Globular clusters (GCs) are excellent tracers of the formation and early evolution of the Milky Way. The bulge GCs (BGCs) are particularly important because they can reveal vital i…
High-resolution extinction map in the direction of the strongly obscured bulge fossil fragment Liller 1
Cristina Pallanca, Francesco R. Ferraro, Barbara Lanzoni +12
We used optical images acquired with the Wide Field Camera of the Advanced Camera for Surveys onboard the Hubble Space Telescope and near-infrared data from GeMS/GSAOI to construct…
CAPOS: The bulge Cluster APOgee Survey I. Overview and initial ASPCAP results
Doug Geisler, Sandro Villanova, Julia E. O'Connell +39
Context. Bulge globular clusters (BGCs) are exceptional tracers of the formation and chemodynamical evolution of this oldest Galactic component. However, until now, observational d…
Infrared photometry and CaT spectroscopy of globular cluster M 28 (NGC 6626)
C. Moni Bidin, F. Mauro, R. Contreras Ramos +12
Recent studies show that the inner Galactic regions host genuine bulge globular clusters, but also halo intruders, complex remnants of primordial building blocks, and objects likel…
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,…
A new class of fossil fragments from the hierarchical assembly of the Galactic bulge
F. R. Ferraro, C. Pallanca, B. Lanzoni +12
The formation and evolutionary processes of galaxy bulges are still unclear, and the presence of young stars in the bulge of the Milky Way is largely debated. We recently demonstra…
VVVX-Gaia Discovery of a Low Luminosity Globular Cluster in the Milky Way Disk
E. R. Garro, D. Minniti, M. Gómez +20
Milky Way globular clusters (MW GCs) are difficult to identify at low Galactic latitudes because of high differential extinction and heavy star crowding. The new deep near-IR image…
A panchromatic view of the bulge globular cluster NGC 6569
S. Saracino, E. Dalessandro, F. R. Ferraro +12
We used high-resolution optical HST/WFC3 and multi-conjugate adaptive optics assisted GEMINI GeMS/GSAOI observations in the near-infrared to investigate the physical properties of…
Deep Hubble Space Telescope Imaging of Globular Clusters Towards the Galactic Bulge: Observations, Data Reduction and Color-Magnitude Diagrams
Roger E. Cohen, Francesco Mauro, Javier Alonso-García +5
The Galactic globular clusters (GGCs) located towards the Galactic bulge have generally been excluded from large-scale photometric GGC surveys due to severe total and differential…
Uncovering Multiple Populations in NGC 7099 (M 30) using Washington Photometry
Heinz Frelijj, Douglas Geisler, Jeffrey Cummings +5
Over the last decade, the classical definition of Globular Clusters (GCs) as simple stellar populations was revolutionized due to the discovery of "Multiple Populations" (MPs). How…
FSR 1716: A new Milky Way Globular Cluster confirmed using VVV RR Lyrae stars
Dante Minniti, Tali Palma, Istvan Dékány +35
We use deep multi-epoch near-IR images of the VISTA Variables in the Vía Láctea (VVV) Survey to search for RR Lyrae stars towards the Southern Galactic plane. Here we report the di…
Stroemgren - near-infrared photometry of the Baade's Window. I. The bulge globular cluster NGC6528 and the surrounding field
Annalisa Calamida, Giuseppe Bono, Edoardo P. Lagioia +9
We present Stroemgren-NIR photometry of NGC6528 and its surroundings in the Baade's Window. uvby images were collected with EFOSC2@NTT, while NIR catalogs are based on VIRCAM@VISTA…
Investigating potential planetary nebula/cluster pairs
Christian Moni Bidin, Daniel Majaess, Charles Bonatto +10
Fundamental parameters characterizing the end-state of intermediate-mass stars may be constrained by discovering planetary nebulae (PNe) in open clusters (OCs). Cluster membership…
Anchors for the Cosmic Distance Scale: the Cepheid QZ Normae in the Open Cluster NGC 6067
D. Majaess, L. Sturch, C. Moni Bidin +13
Cepheids are key to establishing the cosmic distance scale. Therefore it's important to assess the viability of QZ Nor, V340 Nor, and GU Nor as calibrators for Leavitt's law via th…
Photometric study of Galactic star clusters in the VVV survey
F. Mauro, C. Moni Bidin, D. Geisler
We show the preliminary analysis of some Galactic stellar clusters (GSCls) candidates and the results of the analysis of two new interesting GSCls found in the "VISTA Variables in…
Strengthening the Open Cluster Distance Scale via VVV Photometry
Daniel J. Majaess, David G. Turner, C. Moni Bidin +14
Approximately 14% of known Galactic open clusters possess absolute errors 20% as evaluated from n>3 independent distance estimates, and the statistics for age estimates are markedl…
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…
Three Galactic globular cluster candidates
C. Moni Bidin, F. Mauro, D. Geisler +12
The census of Galactic globular clusters (GCs) is still incomplete, and about ten new objects are supposed to await discovery, hidden behind the crowded and reddened regions of the…
New Galactic Star Clusters Discovered in the VVV Survey
Jura Borissova, Charles Bonatto, Radostin Kurtev +27
VISTA Variables in the V\'ıa Láctea (VVV) is one of the six ESO Public Surveys operating on the new 4-meter Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA). VVV is scan…
The Vista Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) ESO Public Survey: Current Status and First Results
M. Catelan, D. Minniti, P. W. Lucas +29
Vista Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) is an ESO Public Survey that is performing a variability survey of the Galactic bulge and part of the inner disk using ESO's Visible and Inf…