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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.GA2009★ 20 cited

HST/NICMOS observations of the GLIMPSE9 stellar cluster

Maria Messineo, Donald F. Figer, Ben Davies +4

We present HST/NICMOS photometry, and low-resolution K-band spectra of the GLIMPSE9 stellar cluster. The newly obtained color-magnitude diagram shows a cluster sequence with H-Ks =…

astro-ph.GA2009★ 1k cited

VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV): The public ESO near-IR variability survey of the Milky Way

D. Minniti, P. W. Lucas, J. P. Emerson +63

We describe the public ESO near-IR variability survey (VVV) scanning the Milky Way bulge and an adjacent section of the mid-plane where star formation activity is high. The survey…

astro-ph.SR2009★ 49 cited

The P Cygni supergiant [OMN2000] LS1 - implications for the star formation history of W51

J. S. Clark, B. Davies, F. Najarro +4

We investigated the nature of the massive star [OMN2000] LS1 and used these results to constrain the history of star formation within the host complex W51. A combination of near-IR…

astro-ph.GA2009★ 50 cited

Near-infrared spectra of Galactic stellar clusters detected on Spitzer/GLIMPSE images

Maria Messineo, Ben Davies, Valentin D. Ivanov +5

We present near-infrared spectroscopic observations of massive stars in three stellar clusters located in the direction of the inner Galaxy. One of them, the Quartet, is a new disc…

astro-ph.GA2009★ 94 cited

A third red supergiant rich cluster in the Scutum-Crux Arm

J. S. Clark, I. Negueruela, B. Davies +6

We aim to characterise the properties of a third massive, red supergiant dominated galactic cluster. To accomplish this we utilised a combination of near/mid-IR photometry and spec…