• Confirmation of a new metal-poor globular cluster in the galactic bulge 

      Minniti, Dante; Schlafly, Edward F.; Palma, Tali; Claria Olmedo, Juan Jose; Hempel, Maren; Alonso Garcia, Javier; Bica, Eduardo Luiz Damiani; Bonatto, Charles Jose; Braga, Vittorio F.; Clementini, Gisella; Garofalo, Alessia; Gómez, Matías; Ivanov, Valentin D.; Lucas, Philip W.; Pullen, Joyce; Saito, Roberto K.; Smith, Leigh C. (2018) [Artículo de periódico]
      We use deep near-IR photometry of the VISTA Variables in the Vía Láctea (VVV) Survey and deep DECam Plane Survey (DECaPS) optical photometry to confirm the physical reality of the candidate globular cluster (GC) Minni 22, ...
    • FSR 1716 : a new Milky Way globular cluster confirmed using VVV RR Lyrae stars 

      Minniti, Dante; Palma, Tali; Dékány, István; Hempel, Maren; Rejkuba, Marina; Pullen, Joyce; Alonso Garcia, Javier; Barbá, Rodolfo H.; Barbuy, Beatriz; Bica, Eduardo Luiz Damiani; Bonatto, Charles Jose; Borissova, Jura; Catelan, Márcio; Carballo-Bello, Julio A.; Chené, André-Nicolas; Claria Olmedo, Juan Jose; Cohen, Roger; Contreras Ramos, Rodrigo; Dias, Bruno Moreira de Souza; Emerson, Jim P.; Froebrich, Dirk; Buckner, Anne S. M.; Geisler, Doug; Gonzalez, Oscar A.; Gran, Felipe; Hajdu, Gergely; Irwin, Michael John; Ivanov, Valentin D.; Kurtev, Radostin Georgiev; Lucas, Philip W.; Majaess, Daniel J.; Mauro, Francesco; Moni Bidin, Christian; Navarrete, Camila; Ramírez Alegría, Sebastián; Saito, Roberto K.; Valenti, Elena; Zoccali, Manuela (2017) [Artículo de periódico]
      We use deep multi-epoch near-IR images of the VISTA Variables in the Vía Láctea (VVV) Survey to search for RR Lyrae stars toward the Southern Galactic plane. Here, we report the discovery of a group of RR Lyrae stars close ...