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    • Hundreds of new cluster candidates in the VISTA Variables in the Vía Láctea survey DR1 

      Barba, R.H.; Roman-Lopes, A.; Nilo Castellon, J.L.; Firpo, V.; Minniti, D.; Lucas, P.W.; Emerson, J.P.; Hempel, M.; Soto, M.; Saito, R.K. (2015-09-18)
      Context. VISTA variables in the Vía Láctea is an ESO Public survey dedicated to scanning the bulge and an adjacent portion of the Galactic disk in the fourth quadrant using the VISTA telescope and its near-infrared camera ...
    • The Magellanic Clouds as a Template for the Study of Stellar Populations and Galaxy Interactions 

      Cioni, M-R.L.; Bekki, K.; Clementini, G.; de Blok, W.J.G.; Emerson, J.P.; Evans, Chris J.; de Grijs, R.; Gibson, B. K.; Girardi, L.; Groenewegen, M.A.T.; Ivanov, V.D.; Leisy, P.; Marconi, M.; Mastropietro, C.; Moore, B.; Naylor, T.; Oliveira, J.M.; Ripepi, V.; van Loon, J. Th; Wilkinson, Mark; Wood, P.R. (2008-01)
      The Magellanic System represents one of the best places to study the formation and evolution of galaxies. Photometric surveys of various depths, areas and wavelengths have had a significant impact on our understanding of ...
    • 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 ...
    • Stellar variability in the VVV survey : Overview and first results 

      Catelan, M.; Minniti, D.; Lucas, P.W.; Dékány, I.; Saito, R. K.; Angeloni, R.; Alonso-García, J.; Hempel, M.; Hełminiak, K.; Jordán, A.; Ramos, R. Contreras; Navarrete, C.; Beamín, J. C.; Rojas, A. F.; Gran, F.; Lopes, C. E Ferreira; Peña, C. Contreras; Kerins, E.; Huckvale, L.; Rejkuba, M.; Cohen, R.; Mauro, F.; Borissova, J.; Amigo, P.; Eyheramendy, S.; Pichara, K.; Espinoza, N.; Navarro, C.; Hajdu, G.; Espinoza, D. N Calderón; Muro, G. A.; Andrews, H.; Motta, V.; Kurtev, R.; Emerson, J.P.; Bidin, C. Moni; Chené, A.-N. (Cambridge University Press, 2014-03-03)
      The Vista Variables in the Vía Láctea (VVV) ESO Public Survey is an ongoing time-series, near-infrared (IR) survey of the Galactic bulge and an adjacent portion of the inner disk, covering 562 square degrees of the sky, ...
    • The United Kingdom Infrared Telescope Infrared Deep Sky Survey first data release 

      Warren, S.J.; Hambly, N.C.; Dye, S.; Almaini, O.; Cross, N.J.G.; Edge, A.C.; Foucaud, S.; Hewett, P.C.; Hodgkin, S.T.; Irwin, M.J.; Jameson, R. F.; Lawrence, A.; Lucas, P.W.; Adamson, A.J.; Bandyopadhyay, R.M.; Bryant, J.; Collins, R. S.; Davis, C.J.; Dunlop, J. S.; Emerson, J.P.; Evans, D. W.; Gonzales-Solares, E. A.; Hirst, P.; Jarvis, M.J.; Kendall, Timothy; Kerr, T.H.; Leggett, S.K.; Lewis, J.R.; Mann, R. G.; McLure, R. J.; McMahon, R.G.; Mortlock, D.J.; Rawlings, M. G.; Read, M. A.; Riello, M.; Simpson, C.; Smith, Daniel; Sutorius, E. T. W.; Targett, T.A.; Varricatt, W.P. (2007-02-11)
      The First Data Release (DR1) of the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) took place on 2006 July 21. The UKIDSS is a set of five large near-infrared surveys, covering a complementary range ...
    • 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 VMC survey - V : First results for classical Cepheids 

      Ripepi, V.; Moretti, M.I.; Marconi, M.; Clementini, G.; Cioni, M-R.L.; Marquette, J-B.; Girardi, L.; Rubele, S.; Groenewegen, M.A.T.; de Grijs, R.; Gibson, B. K.; Oliveira, J.M.; van Loon, J. Th; Emerson, J.P. (2012-08)
      The VISTA Magellanic Cloud (VMC; PI: M.-R. L. Cioni) survey is collecting deep Ks-band time series photometry of the pulsating variable stars hosted by the system formed by the two Magellanic Clouds (MCs) and the bridge ...
    • The VMC survey - VII : Reddening map of the 30 Doradus field and the structure of the cold interstellar medium 

      Tatton, B.; van Loon, J. Th; Cioni, M-R.L.; Clementini, G.; Emerson, J.P.; Girardi, L.; de Grijs, R.; Groenewegen, M.A.T.; Gullieuszik, M.; Ivanov, V.D.; Moretti, M.I.; Ripepi, V.; Rubele, S. (2013-06)
      The details of how galaxies have evolved over cosmological times are imprinted in their star formation history, chemical enrichment and morpho-kinematic structure. Parameters behind these, such as effective temperature and ...
    • The VMC survey - VIII : First results for anomalous Cepheids 

      Ripepi, V.; Marconi, M.; Moretti, M.I.; Clementini, G.; Cioni, M-R.L.; de Grijs, R.; Emerson, J.P.; Groenewegen, M.A.T.; Ivanov, V.D.; Oliveira, J.M. (2014-01-21)
      The VISTA near-infrared YJKs survey of the Magellanic Clouds System (VMC, PI M.-R. L. Cioni) is collecting deep Ks-band time-series photometry of the pulsating variable stars hosted in the system formed by the two Magellanic ...
    • The VMC survey - XI : Radial Stellar Population Gradients in the Galactic Globular Cluster 47 Tucanae 

      Chengyan, Li; de Grijs, R.; Deng, Licai; Rubele, S.; Wang, Chuchu; Bekki, K.; Cioni, M-R.L.; Clementini, G.; Emerson, J.P.; For, Bi-Qing; Girardi, L.; Groenewegen, M.A.T.; Guandalini, Roald; Gullieuszik, M.; Marconi, M.; Piatti, Andres; Ripepi, V.; van Loon, J. Th. (2014-07)
      We present a deep near-infrared color-magnitude diagram of the Galactic globular cluster 47 Tucanae, obtained with the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) as part of the VISTA near-infrared Y, J, ...
    • The VMC Survey - XIII : Type II Cepheids in the Large Magellanic Cloud 

      Ripepi, V.; Moretti, M.I.; Marconi, M.; Clementini, G.; Cioni, M-R.L.; de Grijs, R.; Emerson, J.P.; Groenewegen, M.A.T.; Ivanov, Valentin D.; Muraveva, T.; Piatti, A.E.; Subramanian, S. (2015-01-21)
      The VISTA (Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy) survey of the Magellanic Clouds System (VMC) is collecting deep Ks-band time-series photometry of the pulsating variable stars hosted in the system formed by ...
    • The VMC survey - XIV : First results on the look-back time star formation rate tomography of the Small Magellanic Cloud 

      Rubele, S.; Girardi, L.; Kerber, L.; Cioni, M-R.L.; Piatti, A.E.; Zaggia, S.; Bekki, K.; Bressan, A.; Clementini, G.; de Grijs, R.; Emerson, J.P.; Groenewegen, M.A.T.; Ivanov, Valentin D.; Marconi, M.; Marigo, P.; Moretti, M.I.; Ripepi, V.; Subramanian, S.; Tatton, B.L.; van Loon, J. Th (2015-05-01)
      We analyse deep images from the VISTA survey of the Magellanic Clouds in the YJKs filters, covering 14 deg2 (10 tiles), split into 120 subregions, and comprising the main body and Wing of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). ...
    • The VMC survey - XVIII : Radial dependence of the low-mass, 0.57-0.82 Msun stellar mass function in the galactic globular cluster 47 Tucanae 

      Chaoli, Zhang; Li, Chengyuan; De Grijs, Richard; Bekki, K.; Deng, Licai; Zaggia, S.; Rubele, S.; Piatti, Andrés E.; Cioni, M-R.L.; Emerson, J.P.; For, Bi-Qing; Ripepi, V.; Marconi, Marcella; Ivanov, Valentin D.; Chen, Li (2015-12-14)
      We use near-infrared observations obtained as part of the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) Survey of the Magellanic Clouds (VMC), as well as two complementary Hubble Space Telescope (HST) data ...
    • The VMC survey I. Strategy and first data 

      Cioni, M-R.L.; Clementini, G.; Girardi, L.; Guandalini, R.; Gullieuszik, M.; Miszalski, B.; Moretti, M.I.; Ripepi, V.; Rubele, S.; Bagheri, G.; Bekki, K.; Cross, N.J.G.; de Blok, W.J.G.; de Grijs, R.; Emerson, J.P.; Evans, C.J.; Gibson, B.; Gonzales-Solares, E.; Groenewegen, M.A.T.; Irwin, M.J.; Ivanov, V.D.; Lewis, J.; Marconi, M.; Marquette, J-B.; Mastropietro, C.; Moore, B.; Napiwotzki, R.; Naylor, T.; Oliveira, J.M.; Read, M.; Sutorius, E.; van Loon, J.T.; Wilkinson, M.I.; Wood, P.R. (2011-03)
      Context: The new VISual and Infrared Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) has started operations. Over its first five years it will be collecting data for six public surveys, one of which is the near-infrared YJK(s) VISTA survey ...
    • The VMC survey III : Mass-loss rates and luminosities of LMC AGB stars 

      Gullieuszik, M.; Groenewegen, M.A.T.; Cioni, M-R.L.; de Grijs, R.; van Loon, J. Th; Girardi, L.; Ivanov, V.D.; Oliveira, J.M.; Emerson, J.P.; Guandalini, R. (2012-01)
      Context. Asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars are major contributors to both the chemical enrichment of the interstellar medium and the integrated light of galaxies. Despite its importance, the AGB is one of the least ...
    • The VMC survey VI : Quasars behind the Magellanic system 

      Cioni, M-R.L.; Kamath, D.; Wood, P.R.; Rubele, S.; Van Loon, J.T.; Emerson, J.P.; Gibson, B. K.; Groenewegen, M.A.T.; Ivanov, V.D.; Miszalski, B.; Ripepi, V. (2013-01)
      Context. The number and spatial distribution of confirmed quasi-stellar objects (QSOs) behind the Magellanic system is limited. This undermines their use as astrometric reference objects for different types of studies. ...
    • The VMC survey: IV : the LMC star formation history and disk geometry from four VMC tiles 

      Rubele, S.; Kerber, L.O.; Girardi, L.; Cioni, M-R.L.; Marigo, P.; Zaggia, S.; Bekki, K.; de Grijs, R.; Emerson, J.P.; Groenewegen, M.A.T.; Gullieuszik, M.; Ivanov, V.D.; Miszalski, Brent; Oliveira, J.M.; Tatton, B.; van Loon, J.T. (2012-01)
      We derive the star formation history (SFH) for several regions of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), using deep near-infrared data from the VISTA near-infrared YJK s survey of the Magellanic system (VMC). The regions include ...
    • 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 ...
    • VVV-WIT-01: highly obscured classical nova or protostellar collision? 

      Lucas, P. W.; Minniti, D.; Kamble, A.; Kaplan, D. L.; Cross, N.; Dekany, I.; Ivanov, V. D.; Kurtev, R.; Saito, R. K.; Smith, L. C.; Catelan, M.; Masetti, N.; Toledo, I.; Hempel, M.; Thompson, M. A.; Peña, C. Contreras; Forbrich, J.; Krause, M.; Dale, J.; Borissova, J.; Emerson, J.P. (2020-03)
      A search of the first Data Release of the VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) Survey discovered the exceptionally red transient VVV-WIT-01 (H-Ks=5.2). It peaked before March 2010, then faded by ~9.5 mag over the following ...