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VVV Survey Microlensing: the Galactic Latitude Dependence
Maria Gabriela Navarro, Dante Minniti, Joyce Pullen +1
We search for microlensing events in fields along the Galactic minor axis, ranging from the Galactic center to -3.7<b< 3.9 deg., using the VVV survey near-IR photometry. The new se…
VVV-WIT-04: an extragalactic variable source caught by the VVV Survey
Roberto K. Saito, Dante Minniti, Valentin D. Ivanov +8
We report the discovery of VVV-WIT-04, a near-infrared variable source towards the Galactic disk located ~0.2 arcsec apart from the position of the radio source PMN J1515-5559. The…
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…
Microlensing events in the Galactic bulge
Maria Gabriela Navarro, Dante Minniti, Roberto Capuzzo-Dolcetta +2
For the first time we detected microlensing events at zero latitude in the Galactic bulge using the VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea Survey (VVV) data. We have discovered a total…
Analysis of the physical nature of 22 New VVV Survey Globular Cluster candidates in the Milky Way Bulge
Tali Palma, Dante Minniti, Javier Alonso-García +11
In order to characterize 22 new globular cluster (GC) candidates in the Galactic bulge, we present their colour-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) and Ks-band luminosity functions (LFs) usi…
Globular cluster candidates in the Galactic bulge: Gaia and VVV view of the latest discoveries
F. Gran, M. Zoccali, R. Contreras Ramos +7
Thanks to the recent wide-area photometric surveys, the number of star cluster candidates have risen exponentially in the last few years. Most detections, however, are based only o…
The asymptotic evolution of the stellar merger V1309 Sco: a Blue Straggler in the making?
Thiago Ferreira, Roberto K. Saito, Dante Minniti +4
Stellar mergers are estimated to be common events in the Galaxy. The best studied stellar merger case to date is V1309 Sco (= Nova Scorpii 2008) which was originally misclassified…