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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-ph2002★ 449 cited

Age and Metallicity Distribution of the Galactic Bulge from Extensive Optical and Near-IR Stellar Photometry

M. Zoccali, A. Renzini, S. Ortolani +7

We present a new determination of the metallicity distribution, age, and luminosity function of the Galactic bulge stellar population. By combining near-IR data from the 2MASS surv…

astro-ph2002★ 80 cited

K-Band Red Clump Distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud

David R. Alves, Marina Rejkuba, Dante Minniti +1

The Hipparcos I-band calibration of horizontal-branch red clump giants as standard candles has lead to controversial results for the distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). I…