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astro-ph.SR2025★ 1 cited

VVV-WIT-13: an eruptive young star with cool molecular features

Zhen Guo, Philip Lucas, Sergey N. Yurchenko +27

Here we investigate an infrared eruptive source, identified from the decade-long VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea survey (VVV). We named this target after a group of variable sour…

astro-ph.SR2025

Eruptive YSOs in Cygnus-X: a mid-infrared variability study with NEOWISE and SPICY

C. Morris, Z. Guo, P. W. Lucas +3

The mass accretion process controls pre-main-sequence evolution, although its intrinsic instability has yet to be fully understood, especially towards the protostellar stage. In th…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 155 cited

VIRAC: The VVV Infrared Astrometric Catalogue

L. C. Smith, P. W. Lucas, R. Kurtev +12

We present VIRAC version 1, a near-infrared proper motion and parallax catalogue of the VISTA VVV survey for 312,587,642 unique sources averaged across all overlapping pawprint and…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 14 cited

VVV High proper motion stars I. The catalogue of bright Ks < 13.5 stars

R. Kurtev, M. Gromadzki, J. C. Beamin +14

Knowledge of the stellar content near the Sun is important for a broad range of topics ranging from the search for planets to the study of Milky Way structure. The most powerful me…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 11 cited

Massive open star clusters using the VVV survey IV. WR 62-2, a new very massive star in the core of the VVV CL041 cluster

A. -N. Chené, S. Ramírez Alegría, J. Borissova +8

Context The ESO Public Survey VISTA Variables in the Vía Láctea (VVV) provides deep multi-epoch infrared observations for an unprecedented 562 sq. degrees of the Galactic bulge and…