Aims. The windows of low extinction in the Milky Way (MW) plane are rare but important because they enable us to place structural constraints on the opposite side of the Galaxy, which has hither to been done rarely. Methods. We use the near-infrared (near-IR) images of the VISTA Variables in the ...
Minniti, D.
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Saito, R.K.
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Gonzalez, O.A.
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Alonso-García, J.
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Rejkuba, M.
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Barbá, R.
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Irwin, M.
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Kammers, R.
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Lucas, P.W.
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Majaess, D.
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Valenti, E.
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[A new near-IR window of low extinction in the Galactic plane]
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A new near-IR window of low extinction in the Galactic plane
Deep near-IR images from the VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) Survey were used to search for RR Lyrae stars in the Southern Galactic plane. A sizable sample of 404 RR Lyrae of type ab stars was identified across a thin slice of the fourth Galactic quadrant (295 degrees < l < 350 degrees, -...
Minniti, D.
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Dékány, I.
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Majaess, D.
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Palma, T.
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Pullen, J.
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Rejkuba, M.
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Alonso-García, J.
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Catelan, M.
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Contreras Ramos, R.
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Gonzalez, O.A.
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Hempel, M.
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Irwin, M.l
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Lucas, P.W.
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Saito, R.K.
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Tissera, P.
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Valenti, E.
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Zoccali, M.
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[Characterization of the VVV Survey RR Lyrae Population across the Southern Galactic Plane]
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Characterization of the VVV Survey RR Lyrae Population across the Southern Galactic Plane
Context. Our view of the structure of the Milky Way and, in particular, its bulge is obscured by the intervening stars, dust, and gas in the disc. While great progress in understanding the bulge has been achieved with past and ongoing observations, the comparison of its global chemodynamical prop...
Gonzalez, O. A.
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Gadotti, D. A.
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Debattista, V. P.
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Rejkuba, M.
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Valenti, E.
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Zoccali, M.
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Coccato, L.
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Minniti, D.
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Ness, M.
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[Comparing the properties of the X-shaped bulges of NGC 4710 and the Milky Way with MUSE]
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Comparing the properties of the X-shaped bulges of NGC 4710 and the Milky Way with MUSE
Context. Type II Cepheids (T2Cs) are radially pulsating variables that trace old stellar populations and provide distance estimates through their period-luminosity (PL) relation. Aims. We trace the structure of old stellar population in the Galactic bulge using new distance estimates and kinemati...
Braga, V.F.
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Bhardwaj, A.
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Contreras Ramos, R.
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Minniti, D.
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Bono, G.
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De Grijs, R.
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Minniti, J.H.
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Rejkuba, M.
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[Structure and kinematics of Type II Cepheids in the Galactic bulge based on near-infrared VVV data]
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Structure and kinematics of Type II Cepheids in the Galactic bulge based on near-infrared VVV data
We report the discovery of an enigmatic large-amplitude (ΔKs >10.5 mag) transient event in near-IR data obtained by the VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) ESO Public Survey. The object (designated VVV-WIT- 06) is located at R.A.=17:07:18.917, decl.=-39:06:26.45 (J2000), corresponding to Gala...
Minniti, D.
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Saito, R.K.
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Forster, F.
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Pignata, G.
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Ivanov, V.D.
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Lucas, P.W.
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Beamin, J.C.
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Borissova, J.
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Catelan, M.
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Gonzalez, O.A.
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Hempel, M.
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Hsiao, E.
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Kurtev, R.
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Majaess, D.
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Masetti, N.
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Morrell, N.I.
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Phillips, M.M.
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Pullen, J.B.
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Rejkuba, M.
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Smith, L.
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Surot, F.
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Valenti, E.
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Zoccali, M.
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[The Emergence of the Infrared Transient VVV-WIT-06]
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The Emergence of the Infrared Transient VVV-WIT-06
We present the first stellar density profile of the Milky Way bulge that reaches latitude b = 0 degrees. The profile was derived by counting red clump stars within the colour-magnitude diagram that was constructed using the new PSF-fitting photometry from VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) s...
Valenti, E.
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Zoccali, M.
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Gonzalez, O. A.
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Minniti, D.
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Alonso-García, J.
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Marchetti, E.
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Hempel, M.
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Renzini, A.
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Rejkuba, M.
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[Stellar density profile and mass of the Milky Way bulge from VVV data]
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Stellar density profile and mass of the Milky Way bulge from VVV data