6 papers
A near-infrared stellar atlas of the Galactic plane from the VVVX survey
Javier Alonso-GarcÃa, Maren Hempel, Roberto K. Saito +12
The VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea eXtended (VVVX) ESO public survey observed the Galactic plane and the outer Galactic bulge in the near-infrared to mitigate the effects of ext…
Faint galaxies in the Zone of Avoidance revealed by JWST/NIRCam
J. L. Nilo-Castellón, M. V. Alonso, L. Baravalle +12
The Zone of Avoidance (ZoA) remains one of the last frontiers in constructing a comprehensive three-dimensional map of the Universe. Galactic extinction, stellar crowding, and conf…
Near-infrared photometry of the central stars of planetary nebulae with the VVVX survey
Dante Minniti, Vasiliki Fragkou, Javier Alonso-GarcÃa +2
Achieving accurate photometric characterizations of central stars of planetary nebulae (CSPNe) toward the galactic plane is significantly hindered by the high levels of interstella…
The Gaia parallax discrepancy for the cluster Pismis 19, and separating Scutis from Cepheids
Daniel Majaess, Charles J. Bonatto, David G. Turner +10
Pre-Gaia distances for the open cluster Pismis 19 disagree with Gaia parallaxes. A 2MASS red clump distance was therefore established for Pismis 19 ( kpc), whic…
VIRAC2: NIR Astrometry and Time Series Photometry for 500M+ Stars from the VVV and VVVX Surveys
Leigh C. Smith, Philip W. Lucas, Sergey E. Koposov +11
We present VIRAC2, a catalogue of positions, proper motions, parallaxes and , , , , and near-infrared photometric time series of 545 346 537 unique stars. The cat…
The Valuable Long-period Cluster Cepheid KQ Scorpii and other Calibration Candidates
Daniel Majaess, David G. Turner, Dante Minniti +2
The classical Cepheid KQ Sco is a valuable anchor for the distance scale because of its long pulsation period () and evidence implying membership in the open cluster…