Proper motions of the optically visible open clusters based on the UCAC4 catalog

WS Dias, H Monteiro, TC Caetano, JRD Lépine… - Astronomy & …, 2014 - aanda.org
We present a catalog of mean proper motions and membership probabilities of individual
stars for optically visible open clusters, which have been determined using data from the …

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… - Astronomy & …, 2014 - aanda.org
Context. VISTA Variables in the Vía Láctea (VVV) is one of six ESO Public Surveys using the
4 meter Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA). The VVV survey …

On the optimal calibration of VVV photometry

G Hajdu, I Dékány, M Catelan, EK Grebel - Experimental Astronomy, 2020 - Springer
Prompted by some inconsistencies in the photometry of the VISTA Variables in the Vía
Láctea (VVV) survey, we conduct a revision of the standard calibration procedure of VISTA …

GEMINI/GeMS Observations Unveil the Structure of the Heavily Obscured Globular Cluster Liller 1.

S Saracino, E Dalessandro, FR Ferraro… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
By exploiting the exceptional high-resolution capabilities of the near-IR camera GSAOI
combined with the Gemini Multi-Conjugate Adaptive System at the GEMINI South …

Two groups of red giants with distinct chemical abundances in the bulge globular cluster NGC 6553 through the eyes of APOGEE

B Tang, RE Cohen, D Geisler… - Monthly Notices of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Multiple populations revealed in globular clusters (GCs) are important windows to the
formation and evolution of these stellar systems. The metal-rich GCs in the Galactic bulge …

[HTML][HTML] A RAVE investigation on Galactic open clusters-II. Open cluster pairs, groups and complexes

C Conrad, RD Scholz, NV Kharchenko… - Astronomy & …, 2017 - aanda.org
Context. It is generally agreed upon that stars form in open clusters (OCs) and stellar
associations, but little is known about structures in the Galactic OC population; whether OCs …

High-resolution extinction map in the direction of the bulge globular cluster NGC 6440

C Pallanca, FR Ferraro, B Lanzoni… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We used optical images acquired with the UVIS channel of the Wide Field Camera 3 on
board the Hubble Space Telescope to construct the first high-resolution extinction map in the …

Ultra-deep GEMINI near-infrared observations of the bulge globular cluster NGC 6624

S Saracino, E Dalessandro, FR Ferraro… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We used ultra-deep J and K s images secured with the near-infrared (NIR) GSAOI camera
assisted by the multi-conjugate adaptive optics system GeMS at the GEMINI South …

Constraining dust extinction properties via the VVV survey

D Majaess, D Turner, I Dékány, D Minniti… - Astronomy & …, 2016 - aanda.org
Near-infrared color-excess and extinction ratios are essential for establishing the cosmic
distance scale and probing the Galaxy, particularly when analyzing targets attenuated by …

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… - Astronomy & …, 2013 - aanda.org
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 …