• Massive open star clusters using the VVV survey : II. Discovery of six clusters with Wolf-Rayet stars 

      Chené, André-Nicolas; Bonatto, Charles Jose; Majaess, Daniel J.; Baume, Gustavo Luis; Clarke, J. R. A.; Kurtev, Radostin Georgiev; Schnurr, Olivier; Bouret, Jean-Claude; Catelan, Márcio; Emerson, Jim P.; Feinstein Baigorri, Carlos; Geisler, Doug; Grijs, Richard de; Hervé, Anthony; Ivanov, Valentin D.; Kumar, M. S. N.; Lucas, Philip W.; Mahy, Laurent; Martins, Fabrice; Mauro, Francesco; Minniti, Dante; Moni Bidin, Christian (2013) [Artigo de periódico]
      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 adjacent regions of the disk. Nearly ...
    • Massive open star clusters using the VVV survey : III. A young massive cluster at the far edge of the Galactic bar 

      Ramírez Alegría, Sebastián; Borissova, Jura; Chené, André-Nicolas; O'Leary, E.; Amigo, Pia; Minniti, Dante; Saito, Roberto K.; Geisler, Doug; Kurtev, Radostin Georgiev; Hempel, Maren; Gromadzki, Mariusz; Clarke, J. R. A.; Negueruela Díez, Ignacio; Marco Tobarra, Amparo; Fierro, C.; Bonatto, Charles Jose; Catelan, Márcio (2014) [Artigo de periódico]
      Context. Young massive clusters are key to map the Milky Way’s structure, and near-infrared large area sky surveys have contributed strongly to the discovery of new obscured massive stellar clusters. Aims. We present the ...
    • Massive open star clusters using the VVV survey : I. Presentation of the data and description of the approach 

      Chené, André-Nicolas; Borissova, Jura; Clarke, J. R. A.; Bonatto, Charles Jose; Majaess, Daniel J.; Moni Bidin, Christian; Sale, Stuart E.; Mauro, Francesco; Kurtev, Radostin Georgiev; Baume, Gustavo Luis; Feinstein Baigorri, Carlos; Ivanov, Valentin D.; Geisler, Doug; Catelan, Márcio; Minniti, Dante; Lucas, Philip W.; Grijs, Richard de; Kumar, M. S. N. (2012) [Artigo de periódico]
      Context. The ESO Public Survey “VISTA Variables in the Vía Láctea” (VVV) provides deep multi-epoch infrared observations for unprecedented 562 sq. degrees of the Galactic bulge, and adjacent regions of the disk. Aims. The ...
    • New Galactic star clusters discovered in the VVV survey 

      Borissova, Jura; Bonatto, Charles Jose; Kurtev, Radostin Georgiev; Clarke, J. R. A.; Peñaloza, Francisco; Sale, Stuart E.; Minniti, Dante; Alonso Garcia, Javier; Artigau, Étienne; Barbá, Rodolfo H.; Bica, Eduardo Luiz Damiani; Baume, Gustavo Luis; Catelan, Márcio; Chené, André-Nicolas; Dias, Bruno Moreira de Souza; Folkes, S. L.; Froebrich, Dirk; Geisler, Doug; Grijs, Richard de; Hanson, M. M.; Hempel, Maren; Ivanov, Valentin D.; Kumar, M. S. N.; Lucas, Philip W.; Mauro, Francesco; Moni Bidin, Christian; Rejkuba, Marina; Saito, Roberto K.; Tamura, Motohide; Toledo, Ignacio (2011) [Artigo de periódico]
      Context. VISTA Variables in the Vía Láctea (VVV) is one of the six ESO Public Surveys operating on the new 4-m Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA). VVV is scanning the Milky Way bulge and an adjacent ...
    • New galactic star clusters discovered in the VVV survey. Candidates projected on the inner disk and bulge 

      Borissova, Jura; Chené, André-Nicolas; Ramírez Alegría, Sebastián; Sharma, S.; Clarke, J. R. A.; Kurtev, Radostin Georgiev; Negueruela, Ignacio; Marco Tobarra, Amparo; Amigo, Pia; Minniti, Dante; Bica, Eduardo Luiz Damiani; Bonatto, Charles Jose; Catelan, Márcio; Fierro, C.; Geisler, Doug; Gromadzki, Mariusz; Hempel, Maren; Hanson, M. M.; Ivanov, Valentin D.; Lucas, Philip W.; Majaess, Daniel J.; Moni Bidin, Christian; Popescu, Bogdan; Saito, Roberto K. (2014) [Artigo de periódico]
      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 covers the Milky Way bulge and an adjacent ...
    • 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 

      Saito, Roberto K.; Hempel, Maren; Minniti, Dante; Lucas, Philip W.; Rejkuba, Marina; Toledo, Ignacio; Gonzalez, O. A.; Alonso Garcia, Javier; Irwin, Michael John; Gonzalez-Solares, Eduardo; Hodgkin, Simon; Lewis, James R.; Cross, Nick; Ivanov, Valentin D.; Kerins, Eamonn; Emerson, Jim P.; Soto, M.; Amôres, Eduardo Brescansin de; Gurovich, Sebástian; Dékány, István; Angeloni, Rodolfo; Beamin, Juan Carlos; Catelan, Márcio; Padilla, Nelson; Zoccali, Manuela; Pietrukowicz, Pawel; Moni Bidin, Christian; Mauro, Francesco; Geisler, Doug; Folkes, S. L.; Sale, Stuart E.; Borissova, Jura; Kurtev, Radostin Georgiev; Ahumada, Andrea Veronica; Alonso, Maria Victoria; Adamson, Andy; Arias, Julia Inés; Bandyopadhyay, Reba M.; Barbá, Rodolfo H.; Barbuy, Beatriz; Baume, Gustavo Luis; Bedin, Luigi R.; Bellini, Andrea; Bica, Eduardo Luiz Damiani; Bonatto, Charles Jose; Bronfman, Leonardo; Carraro, Giovanni; Chené, André-Nicolas; Claria Olmedo, Juan Jose; Clarke, J. R. A.; Contreras, C.; Corvillon, Andrea; Grijs, Richard de; Dias, Bruno Moreira de Souza; Drew, Janet E.; Fariña, Cecilia; Feinstein Baigorri, Carlos; Fernández Lajús, Eduardo Eusebio; Gamen, Roberto C.; Gieren, Wolfgang P.; Goldman, Bertrand; González-Fernández, Carlos; Grand, R. J. J.; Gunthardt, Guillermo; Hambly, Nigel C.; Hanson, M. M.; Helminiak, Krzysztof Grzegorz; Hoare, Melvin G.; Huckvale, L.; Jordán, Andrés; Kinemuchi, Karen; Longmore, Andy; López Corredoira, Martín; Maccarone, Thomas J.; Majaess, Daniel J.; Martín Guerrero de Escalante, Eduardo L.; Masetti, Nicola; Mennickent, Ronnald Enrique; Mirabel, I. Felix; Monaco, Lorenzo; Morelli, Lorenzo; Motta, Verónica; Palma, Tali; Parisi, M. C.; Parker, Quentin; Peñaloza, Francisco; Pietrzynski, Grzegorz; Pignata, Giuliano; Popescu, Bogdan; Read, Michael A.; Rojas, Alejandra; Roman-Lopes, Alexandre; Ruiz, Maria Teresa; Saviane, Ivo; Schreiber, Matthias R.; Schröder, A. C.; Sharma, S.; Smith, Michael D.; Sodre Junior, Laerte; Stead, Joe; Stephens, Andrew; Tamura, Motohide; Tappert, Claus; Thompson, Mark A.; Valenti, Elena; Vanzi, Leonardo; Walton, Nicholas A.; Weidmann, Walter; Zijlstra, Albert (2012) [Artigo de periódico]
      Context. The ESO public survey VISTA variables in the Vía Láctea (VVV) started in 2010. VVV targets 562 sq. deg in the Galactic bulge and an adjacent plane region and is expected to run for about five years. Aims. We ...