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    • FSR 1716: A new Milky Way Globular Cluster confirmed using VVV RR Lyrae stars 

      Minniti, Dante; Palma, Tali; Dékány, Istvan; Hempel, Maren; Rejkuba, Marina; Pullen, Joyce; Alonso-García, Javier; Barbá, Rodolfo; Barbuy, Beatriz; Bica, Eduardo; Bonatto, Charles; Borissova, Jura; Catelan, Marcio; Carballo-Bello, Julio A.; Chene, Andre Nicolas; Clariá, Juan J.; Cohen, Roger E.; Contreras-Ramos, Rodrigo; Dias, Bruno; Emerson, Jim; Froebrich, Dirk; Buckner, Anne S. M.; Geisler, Douglas; Gonzalez, Oscar A.; Gran, Felipe; Hagdu, Gergely; Irwin, Mike; Ivanov, Valentin D.; Kurtev, Radostin; Lucas, Philip W.; Majaess, Daniel; Mauro, Francesco; Moni-Bidin, Christian; Navarrete, Camila; Alegría, Sebastian Ramírez; Saito, Roberto K.; Valenti, Elena; Zoccali, Manuela (2017-03-24)
      We use deep multi-epoch near-IR images of the VISTA Variables in the V\'ia L\'actea (VVV) Survey to search for RR Lyrae stars towards the Southern Galactic plane. Here we report the discovery of a group of RR Lyrae stars ...
    • Variable stars in the VVV globular clusters. II. NGC6441, NGC6569, NGC6626 (M28), NGC6656 (M22), 2MASS-GC02, and Terzan10 

      Alonso-García, Javier; Smith, Leigh C.; Catelan, Márcio; Minniti, Dante; Navarrete, Camila; Borissova, Jura; Carballo-Bello, Julio A.; Ramos, Rodrigo Contreras; Fernández-Trincado, José G.; Lopes, Carlos E. Ferreira; Gran, Felipe; Garro, Elisa R.; Geisler, Doug; Guo, Zhen; Hempel, Maren; Kerins, Eamonn; Lucas, Philip W.; Palma, Tali; Ramírez, Karla Peña; Alegría, Sebastián Ramírez; Saito, Roberto K. (2021-07-12)
      Context. The Galactic globular clusters (GGCs) located in the inner regions of the Milky Way suffer from high extinction that makes their observation challenging. High densities of field stars in their surroundings complicate ...