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    • Milky Way demographics with the VVV survey III : Evidence for a great dark lane in the 157 million star bulge color-magnitude diagram 

      Minniti, D.; Saito, R.K.; Gonzalez, O. A.; Zoccali, M.; Rejkuba, M.; Alonso-Garciá, J.; Benjamin, R.; Catelan, M.; Dékány, I.; Emerson, J.P.; Hempel, M.; Lucas, P.W.; Schultheis, M. (2014-11)
      The new generation of IR surveys are revealing and quantifying Galactic features that provide an improved 3D interpretation of our own Galaxy. We present an analysis of the global distribution of dust clouds in the bulge ...
    • 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, R.K.; Hempel, M.; Minniti, D.; Lucas, P.W.; Rejkuba, M.; Toledo, I.; Gonzalez, O. A.; Alonso-García, J.; Irwin, M.J.; Gonzalez-Solares, E.; Hodgkin, S.T.; Lewis, J.R.; Cross, N.; Ivanov, V.D.; Kerins, E.; Emerson, J.P.; Soto, M.; Amôres, E.B.; Gurovich, S.; Dékány, I.; Angeloni, R.; Beamin, J.C.; Catelan, M.; Padilla, N.; Zoccali, M.; Pietrukowicz, P.; Moni Bidin, C.; Mauro, F.; Geisler, D.; Folkes, S.L.; Sale, S.E.; Borissova, J.; Kurtev, R.; Ahumada, A.V.; Alonso, M.V.; Adamson, A.; Arias, J.I.; Bandyopadhyay, R.M.; Barbá, R.H.; Barbuy, B.; Baume, G. L.; Bedin, L.R.; Bellini, A.; Benjamin, R.; Bica, E.; Bonatto, C.; Bronfman, L.; Carraro, G.; Chenè, A.N.; Clariá, J.J.; Clarke, J.R.A.; Contreras, C.; Corvillón, A.; de Grijs, R.; Dias, B.; Drew, J.E.; Fariña, C.; Feinstein, C.; Fernández-Lajús, E.; Gamen, R.C.; Gieren, W.; Goldman, B.; González-Fernández, C.; Grand, R. J. J.; Gunthardt, G.; Hambly, N.C.; Hanson, M. M.; Helminiak, K.G.; Hoare, M.G.; Huckvale, L.; Jordán, A.; Kinemuchi, K.; Longmore, A.; López-Corredoira, M.; Maccarone, T.; Majaess, D.; Martín, E.L.; Masetti, N.; Mennickent, R.E.; Mirabel, I.F.; Monaco, L.; Morelli, L.; Motta, V.; Palma, T.; Parisi, M.C.; Parker, Q.; Peñaloza, F.; Pietrzyski, G.; Pignata, G.; Popescu, B.; Read, M. A.; Rojas, A.; Roman-Lopes, A.; Ruiz, M.T.; Saviane, I.; Schreiber, M. R.; Schröder, A. C.; Sharma, S.; Smith, M.D.; Sodré, L.; Stead, J.; Stephens, A. W.; Tamura, M.; Tappert, C.; Thompson, Mark; Valenti, E.; Vanzi, L.; Walton, N.A.; Weidmann, W.; Zijlstra, A. (2012)
      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 ...