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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-ph2008★ 29 cited

The WFC3 Galactic Bulge Treasury Program: A First Look at Resolved Stellar Population Tools

Thomas M. Brown, Kailash Sahu, Manuela Zoccali +12

[Abridged] When WFC3 is installed on HST, the community will have powerful new tools for investigating resolved stellar populations. The WFC3 Galactic Bulge Treasury program will o…

astro-ph2008★ 59 cited

Low Mass Companions for Five Solar-Type Stars from the Magellan Planet Search Program

Dante Minniti, R. Paul Butler, Mercedes Lopez-Morales +5

We report low mass companions orbiting five Solar-type stars that have emerged from the Magellan precision Doppler velocity survey, with minimum (Msini) masses ranging from 1.2 to…

astro-ph2008★ 170 cited

Stellar Proper Motions in the Galactic Bulge from deep HST ACS/WFC Photometry

Will Clarkson, Kailash Sahu, Jay Anderson +11

We present stellar proper motions in the Galactic bulge from the Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Search (SWEEPS) project using ACS/WFC on HST. Proper motions are extracted…

astro-ph2008★ 13 cited

Two Jupiter-Mass Planets Orbiting HD 154672 and HD 205739

Mercedes Lopez-Morales, R. Paul Butler, Debra A. Fischer +6

We report the detection of the first two planets from the N2K Doppler planet search program at the Magellan telescopes. The first planet has a mass of M sin i = 4.96 M_Jup and is o…

astro-ph2008★ 28 cited

The young Galactic star cluster [DBS2003]179

J. Borissova, V. D. Ivanov, M. M. Hanson +4

Recent near- and mid-infrared surveys have brought evidence that the Milky Way continues to form massive clusters. We carry out a program to determine the basic physical properties…

astro-ph2008★ 159 cited

Scattered-Light Echoes from the Historical Galactic Supernovae Cassiopeia A and Tycho (SN 1572)

A. Rest, D. L. Welch, N. B. Suntzeff +16

We report the discovery of an extensive system of scattered light echo arclets associated with the recent supernovae in the local neighbourhood of the Milky Way: Tycho (SN 1572) an…