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

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astro-ph.GA2017★ 7 cited

The globular cluster NGC7492 and the Sagittarius tidal stream: together but unmixed

Julio A. Carballo-Bello, Jesús M. Corral-Santana, Márcio Catelan +7

We have derived from VIMOS spectroscopy the radial velocities for a sample of 71 stars selected from CFHT/Megacam photometry around the Galactic globular cluster NGC7492. In the re…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 46 cited

Unmixing the Galactic Halo with RR Lyrae tagging

V. Belokurov, A. J. Deason, S. E. Koposov +4

We show that tagging RR Lyrae stars according to their location in the period-amplitude diagram can be used to shed light on the genesis of the Galactic stellar halo. The mixture o…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 15 cited

Discovery of a thin stellar stream in the SLAMS survey

P. Jethwa, G. Torrealba, C. Navarrete +8

We report the discovery of a thin stellar stream - which we name the Jet stream - crossing the constellations of Hydra and Pyxis. The discovery was made in data from the SLAMS surv…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 51 cited

Tails and streams around the Galactic globular clusters NGC1851, NGC1904, NGC2298 and NGC2808

Julio A. Carballo-Bello, David Martínez-Delgado, Camila Navarrete +4

We present DECam imaging for the peculiar Galactic globular clusters NGC1851, NGC1904 (M79), NGC2298 and NGC2808. Our deep photometry reveals that all the clusters have an importan…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 94 cited

Extinction ratios in the inner Galaxy as revealed by the VVV survey

Javier Alonso-García, Dante Minniti, Márcio Catelan +7

Interstellar extinction towards the Galactic Center is large and significantly differential. Its reddening and dimming effects in red clump stars in the Galactic Bulge can be explo…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 57 cited

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…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 37 cited

Characterization of the VVV Survey RR Lyrae Population across the Southern Galactic Plane

Dante Minniti, Istvan Dékány, Daniel Majaess +14

Deep near-IR images from the VISTA Variables in the Vía Láctea (VVV) Survey were used to search for RR Lyrae stars in the Southern Galactic plane. A sizable sample of 404 RR Lyrae…