VVV DR1: The first data release of the Milky Way bulge and southern plane from the near-infrared ESO public survey VISTA variables in the Vía Láctea RK Saito, M Hempel, D Minniti, PW Lucas, M Rejkuba, I Toledo, ... Astronomy & Astrophysics 537, A107, 2012 | 464 | 2012 |
Characteristics of the Galaxy according to Cepheids DJ Majaess, DG Turner, DJ Lane Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 398 (1), 263-270, 2009 | 154 | 2009 |
New galactic star clusters discovered in the VVV survey. Candidates projected on the inner disk and bulge J Borissova, AN Chené, SR Alegría, S Sharma, JRA Clarke, R Kurtev, ... Astronomy & Astrophysics 569, A24, 2014 | 80 | 2014 |
The VVV survey reveals classical Cepheids tracing a young and thin stellar disk across the Galaxy’s bulge I Dékány, D Minniti, D Majaess, M Zoccali, G Hajdu, J Alonso-García, ... The Astrophysical Journal Letters 812 (2), L29, 2015 | 66 | 2015 |
Massive open star clusters using the VVV survey-I. Presentation of the data and description of the approach AN Chené, J Borissova, JRA Clarke, C Bonatto, DJ Majaess, CM Bidin, ... Astronomy & Astrophysics 545, A54, 2012 | 63 | 2012 |
FSR 1716: a new Milky Way globular cluster confirmed using VVV RR Lyrae stars D Minniti, T Palma, I Dékány, M Hempel, M Rejkuba, J Pullen, ... The Astrophysical Journal Letters 838 (1), L14, 2017 | 58 | 2017 |
Classical Cepheids and the spiral structure of the milky way AK Dambis, LN Berdnikov, YN Efremov, AY Kniazev, AS Rastorguev, ... Astronomy Letters 41, 489-500, 2015 | 57 | 2015 |
Milky Way demographics with the VVV survey-II. Color transformations and near-infrared photometry for 136 million stars in the southern Galactic disk M Soto, R Barbá, G Gunthardt, D Minniti, P Lucas, D Majaess, M Irwin, ... Astronomy & Astrophysics 552, A101, 2013 | 55 | 2013 |
Concerning the Distance to the Center of the Milky Way and its Structure DJ Majaess arXiv preprint arXiv:1002.2743, 2010 | 55 | 2010 |
Massive open star clusters using the VVV survey-II. Discovery of six clusters with Wolf-Rayet stars AN Chené, J Borissova, C Bonatto, DJ Majaess, G Baume, JRA Clarke, ... Astronomy & Astrophysics 549, A98, 2013 | 51 | 2013 |
Discovering protostars and their host clusters via WISE D Majaess Astrophysics and Space Science 344, 175-186, 2013 | 47 | 2013 |
Concerning the Classical Cepheid VIc Wesenheit Function's Strong Metallicity Dependence D Majaess, D Turner, W Gieren The Astrophysical Journal Letters 741 (2), L36, 2011 | 45 | 2011 |
Assessing potential cluster Cepheids from a new distance and reddening parametrization and Two Micron All Sky Survey photometry DJ Majaess, DG Turner, DJ Lane Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 390 (4), 1539-1548, 2008 | 42 | 2008 |
New evidence supporting membership for TW nor in Lyngå 6 and the centaurus spiral arm D Majaess, D Turner, CM Bidin, F Mauro, D Geisler, W Gieren, D Minniti, ... The Astrophysical Journal Letters 741 (2), L27, 2011 | 41 | 2011 |
Type II Cepheids as extragalactic distance candles DJ Majaess, DG Turner, DJ Lane arXiv preprint arXiv:0909.0181, 2009 | 41 | 2009 |
A Near-infrared RR Lyrae Census along the Southern Galactic Plane: The Milky Way’s Stellar Fossil Brought to Light I Dékány, G Hajdu, EK Grebel, M Catelan, F Elorrieta, S Eyheramendy, ... The Astrophysical Journal 857 (1), 54, 2018 | 40 | 2018 |
The exciting star of the Berkeley 59/Cepheus OB4 complex and other chance variable star discoveries DJ Majaess, DG Turner, DJ Lane, KE Moncrieff arXiv preprint arXiv:0801.3749, 2008 | 38 | 2008 |
A new near-IR window of low extinction in the Galactic plane D Minniti, RK Saito, OA Gonzalez, J Alonso-García, M Rejkuba, R Barbá, ... Astronomy & Astrophysics 616, A26, 2018 | 36 | 2018 |
Characterization of the VVV Survey RR Lyrae Population across the Southern Galactic Plane D Minniti, I Dékány, D Majaess, T Palma, J Pullen, M Rejkuba, ... The Astronomical Journal 153 (4), 179, 2017 | 36 | 2017 |
The distance to the young open cluster Westerlund 2 G Carraro, D Turner, D Majaess, G Baume Astronomy & Astrophysics 555, A50, 2013 | 35 | 2013 |