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most citedVVV DR1: The First Data Release of the Milky Way Bulge and Southern Plane from the Near-Infrared ESO Public Survey VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea

409 citations · 573 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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astro-ph.SR2016★ 14 cited

Determination of pulsation periods and other parameters of 2875 stars classified as MIRA in the All Sky Automated Survey (ASAS)

N. Vogt, A. Contreras-Quijada, I. Fuentes-Morales +11

We have developed an interactive PYTHON code and derived crucial ephemeris data of 99.4% of all stars classified as 'Mira' in the ASAS data base, referring to pulsation periods, me…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 9 cited

Chemical Abundances of the Highly Obscured Galactic Globular Clusters 2MASS GC02 and Mercer 5

Francisco Penaloza, Peter Pessev, Sergio Vasquez +3

We present the first high spectral resolution abundance analysis of two newly discovered Galactic globular clusters, namely Mercer 5 and 2MASS GC02 residing in regions of high inte…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 20 cited

Obscured clusters.IV. The most massive stars in [DBS2003]179

J. Borissova, L. Georgiev, M. M. Hanson +6

Aims. We report new results for the massive evolved and main sequence members of the young galactic cluster DBS2003 179. We determine the physical parameters and investigate the hi…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 409 cited

VVV DR1: The First Data Release of the Milky Way Bulge and Southern Plane from the Near-Infrared ESO Public Survey VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea

R. K. Saito, M. Hempel, D. Minniti +107

The ESO Public Survey VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) started in 2010. VVV targets 562 sq. deg in the Galactic bulge and an adjacent plane region and is expected to run for…

astro-ph.GA2011★ 121 cited

New Galactic Star Clusters Discovered in the VVV Survey

Jura Borissova, Charles Bonatto, Radostin Kurtev +27

VISTA Variables in the V\'ıa Láctea (VVV) is one of the six ESO Public Surveys operating on the new 4-meter Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA). VVV is scan…