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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.GA2026

A Newly Discovered VVVX Star Cluster Surfing the Galactic Disk

Elisa R. Garro, José G. Fernández-Trincado, Casmir O. Obasi +15

We report the discovery of Garro 04, a previously unidentified stellar cluster toward the Galactic disc, uncovered as part of the ESO/KMOS VVVX-GalCen Spectroscopic Survey. This ob…

astro-ph.GA2026

The deepest color-magnitude diagrams for the benchmark open cluster NGC 2437 from Gaia and VVVX

Tali Palma, Matías Gómez, Dante Minniti +8

Deep photometry of Galactic star clusters provides one of the most powerful tools for determining their physical properties. In particular, in low Galactic latitude regions that su…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 14 cited

Gaia-IGRINS synergy: Orbits of Newly Identified Milky Way Star Clusters

Elisa R. Garro, José G. Fernández-Trincado, Dante Minniti +11

The recent exquisite Gaia astrometric, photometric, and radial velocity (RV) measurements resulted in a substantial advancement for the determination of the orbits for old star clu…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 11 cited

FSR 1776: a new globular cluster in the Galactic bulge?

B. Dias, T. Palma, D. Minniti +6

(ABRIDGED) Recent near-IR surveys have uncovered a plethora of new globular cluster (GC) candidates towards the Milky Way bulge. These new candidates need to be confirmed as real G…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 12 cited

An Intriguing Globular Cluster in the Galactic Bulge from the VVV Survey

D. Minniti, T. Palma, D. Camargo +7

Recent near-IR Surveys have discovered a number of new bulge globular cluster (GC) candidates that need to be further investigated. Our main objective is to use public data from th…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 22 cited

Discovery of new globular clusters in the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy

D. Minniti, V. Ripepi, J. G. Fernández-Trincado +14

Context. Globular clusters (GCs) are witnesses of the past accretion events onto the Milky Way (MW). In particular, the GCs of the Sagittarius (Sgr) dwarf galaxy are important prob…