Browsing by Author "Alonso-Garcia, J."

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    • The edge of the milky way stellar disk revealed using clump giant stars as distance indicators 

      Minniti, D.; Saito, R.K.; Alonso-Garcia, J.; Lucas, P.W.; Hempel, M. (2011)
      We use the clump giants of the disk as standard candles calibrated from Hipparcos parallaxes in order to map their distribution with two new near-infrared surveys of the Galactic plane: UKIDSS-GPS and VISTA Variables in ...

    • Near-infrared photometry and spectroscopy of the low Galactic latitude globular cluster 2MASS-GC03 

      Carballo-Bello, Julio A.; Alegria, S. Ramirez; Borissova, J.; Smith, L. C.; Kurtev, R.; Lucas, P. W.; Bidin, Ch Moni; Alonso-Garcia, J.; Minniti, D.; Palma, T.; Dekany, I.; Medina, N.; Moyano, M.; Villanueva, V.; Kuhn, M. A. (2016-10-11)
      We present deep near-infrared photometry and spectroscopy of the globular cluster 2MASS-GC03 projected in the Galactic disk using MMIRS on the Clay telescope (Las Campanas Observatory) and VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea ...

    • New Galactic star clusters discovered in the disc area of the VVVX survey 

      Borissova, J.; Ivanov, V. D.; Lucas, P. W.; Kurtev, R.; Alonso-Garcia, J.; Alegria, S. Ramirez; Minniti, D.; Hempel, M.; Medina, N.; Chene, A. N.; Kuhn, M. A. (2018-12-11)
      The "VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea eXtended (VVVX)" ESO Public Survey is a near-infrared photometric sky survey that covers nearly 1700 sq. deg towards the Galactic disk and bulge. It is well-suited to search for new ...

    • New Galactic star clusters discovered in the VVV survey 

      Borissova, J.; Bonatto, C.; Kurtev, R.; Clarke, J. R. A.; Penaloza, F.; Sale, S. E.; Minniti, D.; Alonso-Garcia, J.; Artigau, E.; Barba, R.; Bica, E.; Baume, G. L.; Catelan, M.; Chene, A. N.; Dias, B.; Folkes, S. L.; Froebrich, D.; Geisler, D.; de Grijs, R.; Hanson, M. M.; Hempel, M.; Ivanov, V. D.; Kumar, M. S. N.; Lucas, P.W.; Mauro, F.; Moni Bidin, C.; Rejkuba, M.; Saito, R. K.; Tamura, M.; Toledo, I. (2011-08)
      Context. VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea (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 ...

    • Open cluster candidates in the VVVX area: VVVX CL 076 and CL 077 

      Borissova, Jura; Ivanov, Valentin D.; Lucas, Philip; Kurtev, R.; Alonso-Garcia, J.; Alegria, S. Ramirez; Minniti, D.; Medina, Nicolás; Chene, Andre Nicolas (2019-08-01)
      We are reporting some basic parameters of two newly discovered clusters, VVVX CL 076 and CL 077, recently discovered in the galactic disk area covered by the VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea eXtended (VVVX) ESO Public ...

    • Small scale star formation as revealed by VVVX galactic cluster candidates 

      Borissova, J.; Kurtev, R.; Amarinho, N.; Alonso-Garcia, J.; Alegria, S. Ramirez; Bernal, S.; Medina, N.; Chene, A. -N.; Ivanov, V. D.; Lucas, P. W.; Minniti, D. (2020-10-02)
      We report a search and analysis of obscured cluster candidates in the "VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea eXtended (VVVX)" ESO Public Survey area encompassing the region between 229.4 < l <295.2 and -4.3 < b <4.4 of the ...

    • VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) : The public ESO near-IR variability survey of the Milky Way 

      Minniti, D.; Lucas, P.W.; Emerson, J.P.; Saito, R.K.; Hempel, M.; Pietrukowicz, P.; Ahumada, A.V.; Alonso, M.V.; Alonso-Garcia, J.; Arias, J.I.; Bandyopadhyay, R.M.; Barba, R.; Barbuy, B.; Bedin, L.R.; Bica, E.; Borissova, J.; Bronfman, L.; Carraro, G.; Catelan, M.; Claria, J. J.; Cross, N.; de Grijs, R.; Dekany, I.; Drew, J.E.; Farina, C.; Feinstein, C.; Fernandez Lajus, E.; Gamen, R.C.; Geisler, D.; Gieren, W.; Goldman, B.; Gonzalez, O. A.; Gunthardt, G.; Gurovich, S.; Hambly, N.C.; Irwin, M.J.; Ivanov, V.D.; Jordan, A.; Kerins, E.; Kinemuchi, K.; Kurtev, R.; Lopez-Corredoira, M.; Maccarone, T.; Masetti, N.; Merlo, D.; Messineo, M.; Mirabel, I.F.; Monaco, L.; Morelli, L.; Padilla, N.; Palma, T.; Parisi, M.C.; Pignata, G.; Rejkuba, M.; Roman-Lopes, A.; Sale, S. E.; Schreiber, M. R.; Schroder, A.C.; Smith, M.; Sodre Jr, L.; Soto, M.; Tamura, M.; Tappert, C.; Thompson, Mark; Toledo, I.; Zoccali, M.; Pietrzynski, G. (2010)
      We describe the public ESO near-IR variability survey (VVV) scanning the Milky Way bulge and an adjacent section of the mid-plane where star formation activity is high. The survey will take 1929 h of observations with the ...

    • The VVV Infrared Variability Catalog (VIVA-I) 

      Lopes, C. E. Ferreira; Cross, N. J. G.; Catelan, M.; Minniti, D.; Hempel, M.; Lucas, P. W.; Angeloni, R.; Jablonsky, F.; Braga, V. F.; Leao, I. C.; Herpich, F. R.; Alonso-Garcia, J.; Papageorgiou, A.; Pichara, K.; Saito, R. K.; Bradley, A.; Beamin, J. C.; Cortes, C.; Medeiros, J. R. De; Russell, Christopher M. P. (2020-08)
      Thanks to the VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) ESO Public Survey it is now possible to explore a large number of objects in those regions. This paper addresses the variability analysis of all VVV point sources having ...