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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.SR2026

Something new under the Sun: A magnetically driven CH/CN anti-correlation

Y. Momany, L. Monaco, S. Villanova +11

Spectroscopic monitoring surveys have shown that the magnetic cycle alters the photospheric structure of the Sun, perturbing the formation of molecular lines. In parallel, the stud…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 4 cited

The Gaia RVS benchmark stars II. A sample of stars selected for their Gaia high radial velocity

E. Caffau, D. Katz, A. Gómez +16

The Gaia satellite has already provided the astronomical community with three data releases, and the Radial Velocity Spectrometer (RVS) on board Gaia has provided the radial veloci…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 31 cited

Fast rotating Blue Stragglers prefer loose clusters

Francesco R. Ferraro, Alessio Mucciarelli, Barbara Lanzoni +9

Blue stragglers are anomalously luminous core hydrogen-burning stars formed through mass-transfer in binary/triple systems and stellar collisions. Their physical and evolutionary p…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 17 cited

The metallicity distribution in the core of the Sagittarus dwarf spheroidal: minimising the metallicity biases

Alice Minelli, Michele Bellazzini, Alessio Mucciarelli +7

We present metallicity and radial velocity for 450 bonafide members of the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal (Sgr dSph) galaxy, measured from high resolution (R~18000) FLAMES@VLT spectr…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 21 cited

MINCE I. Presentation of the project and of the first year sample

G. Cescutti, P. Bonifacio, E. Caffau +20

In recent years, Galactic archaeology has become a particularly vibrant field of astronomy, with its main focus set on the oldest stars of our Galaxy. In most cases, these stars ha…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 8 cited

Sulfur abundances in three Galactic clusters: Ruprecht 106, Trumpler 5 and Trumpler 20

F. Lucertini, L. Monaco, E. Caffau +4

Context. Sulfur (S) is one of the lesser-studied -elements. Published investigations of its behavior have so far focused on local stars, and only a few clusters of the Milky Way…