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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.GA2015★ 122 cited

Stellar density profile and mass of the Milky Way Bulge from VVV data

E. Valenti, M. Zoccali, O. A. Gonzalez +6

We present the first stellar density profile of the Milky Way bulge reaching latitude . It is derived by counting red clump stars within the colour\--magnitude diagram c…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 29 cited

Reinforcing the link between the double red clump and the X-shaped bulge of the Milky Way

O. A. Gonzalez, M. Zoccali, Victor P. Debattista +3

The finding of a double red clump in the luminosity function of the Milky Way bulge has been interpreted as evidence for an X-shaped structure. Recently, an alternative explanation…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 131 cited

Interstellar Extinction Curve Variations Toward the Inner Milky Way: A Challenge to Observational Cosmology

David M. Nataf, Oscar A. Gonzalez, Luca Casagrande +18

We investigate interstellar extinction curve variations toward 4 deg of the inner Milky Way in photometry from the OGLE-III and surveys, with supportin…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 69 cited

The Giraffe Inner Bulge Survey (GIBS) II. Metallicity distributions and alpha element abundances at fixed Galactic latitude

O. A. Gonzalez, M. Zoccali, S. Vasquez +8

High resolution (R22,500) spectra for 400 red clump giants, in four fields within and $\rm -10^{\circ} \lesssim l \lesssim…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 35 cited

The Calcium Triplet metallicity calibration for galactic bulge stars

S. Vasquez, M. Zoccali, V. Hill +4

We present a new calibration of the Calcium II Triplet equivalent widths versus [Fe/H], constructed upon K giant stars in the Galactic bulge. This calibration will be used to deriv…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 30 cited

The Milky Way Bulge: Observed properties and a comparison to external galaxies

Oscar A. Gonzalez, Dimitri A. Gadotti

The Milky Way bulge offers a unique opportunity to investigate in detail the role that different processes such as dynamical instabilities, hierarchical merging, and dissipational…