Browsing by Author "Majaess, Daniel"

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    • Characterization of the VVV Survey RR Lyrae Population across the Southern Galactic Plane 

      Minniti, Dante; Dékány, Istvan; Majaess, Daniel; Palma, Tali; Pullen, Joyce; Rejkuba, Marina; Alonso-García, Javier; Catelan, Marcio; Ramos, Rodrigo Contreras; Gonzalez, Oscar A.; Hempel, Maren; Irwin, Mike; Lucas, Philip W.; Saito, Roberto K.; Tissera, Patricia; Valenti, Elena; Zoccali, Manuela (2017-03-27)
      Deep near-IR images from the VISTA Variables in the Vía Láctea (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 ...

    • The Emergence of the Infrared transient VVV-WIT-06 

      Minniti, Dante; Saito, Roberto K.; Forster, F.; Pignata, G.; Ivanov, Valentin D.; Lucas, Philip; Beamin, J.C.; Borissova, Jura; Catelan, Marcio; Gonzalez, Oscar A.; Hempel, Maren; Hsiao, E; Kurtev, Radostin; Majaess, Daniel; Masetti, N.; Morrell, N.I.; Phillips, M.M.; Pullen, J. B.; Rejkuba, M.; Smith, L.C.; Surot, F.; Valenti, Elena; Zoccali, Manuela (2017-11-03)
      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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • A new near-IR window of low extinction in the Galactic plane 

      Minniti, Dante; Saito, Roberto K.; Gonzalez, Oscar A.; Alonso-García, Javier; Rejkuba, Marina; Barbá, Rodolfo; Irwin, Mike; Kammers, Roberto; Lucas, Philip; Majaess, Daniel; Valenti, Elena (2018-08-01)
      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. ...