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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.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.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.SR2022★ 133 cited

The Gaia-ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey: Motivation, implementation, GIRAFFE data processing, analysis, and final data products

G. Gilmore, S. Randich, C. C. Worley +165

The Gaia-ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey is an ambitious project designed to obtain astrophysical parameters and elemental abundances for 100,000 stars, including large representat…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 35 cited

The Gaia EDR3 view of Johnson-Kron-Cousins standard stars: the curated Landolt and Stetson collections

E. Pancino, P. M. Marrese, S. Marinoni +7

(Shortened). In the era of large surveys and space missions, it is necessary to rely on large samples of well-characterized stars for inter-calibrating and comparing measurements f…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 29 cited

Discovery of a thin lithium plateau among metal-poor red giant branch stars

A. Mucciarelli, L. Monaco, P. Bonifacio +5

The surface lithium abundance A(Li) of warm metal-poor dwarf stars exhibits a narrow plateau down to [Fe/H]~-2.8 dex, while at lower metallicities the average value drops by 0.3 de…