Near-IR trigonometric parallaxes of nearby stars in the Galactic plane using the VVV

J. C. Beamin, R. A. Mendez, R. L. Smart +7

We use the multi-epoch K${}_{\mathrm{S}}$ band observations, covering a $\sim$5 years baseline to obtain milli and sub-milli arcsec precision astrometry for a sample of eighteen previously…