Browsing by Author "Valenti, Elena"

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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 ...

    • Extinction ratios in the inner Galaxy as revealed by the VVV survey 

      Alonso-García, Javier; Minniti, Dante; Catelan, Márcio; Ramos, Rodrigo Contreras; Gonzalez, Oscar A.; Hempel, Maren; Lucas, Philip W.; Saito, Roberto K.; Valenti, Elena; Zoccali, Manuela (2017-11-01)
      Interstellar extinction towards the Galactic Center is large and significantly differential. Its reddening and dimming effects in red clump stars in the Galactic Bulge can be exploited to better constrain the extinction ...

    • 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 ...

    • The Imprint of Clump Formation at High Redshift. II. The Chemistry of the Bulge 

      Debattista, Victor P.; Liddicott, David J.; Gonzalez, Oscar A.; Beraldo e Silva, Leandro; Amarante, João A. S.; Lazar, Ilin; Zoccali, Manuela; Valenti, Elena; Fisher, Deanne B.; Khachaturyants, Tigran; Nidever, David L.; Quinn, Thomas R.; Du, Min; Kassin, Susan (2023-04-07)
      In Paper I, we showed that clumps in high-redshift galaxies, having a high star formation rate density (ΣSFR), produce disks with two tracks in the [Fe/H]–[α/Fe] chemical space, similar to that of the Milky Way’s (MW’s) ...

    • Mapping the stellar age of the Milky Way bulge with the VVV : II. Deep JK s catalog release based on PSF photometry 

      Surot, F.; Valenti, Elena; Hidalgo, S. L.; Zoccali, M.; Gonzalez, O. A.; Sökmen, E.; Minniti, D.; Rejkuba, M.; Lucas, P. W. (2019-09-01)
      Context. The bulge represents the best compromise between old and massive Galactic components, and as such its study is a valuable opportunity to understand how the bulk of the Milky Way formed and evolved. In addition, ...

    • Milky Way demographics with the VVV survey. IV. PSF photometry from almost one billion stars in the Galactic bulge and adjacent southern disk 

      Alonso-García, Javier; Saito, Roberto K.; Hempel, Maren; Minniti, Dante; Pullen, Joyce; Catelan, Márcio; Ramos, Rodrigo Contreras; Cross, Nicholas J. G.; Gonzalez, Oscar A.; Lucas, Philip W.; Palma, Tali; Valenti, Elena; Zoccali, Manuela (2018-11-01)
      Context. The inner regions of the Galaxy are severely affected by extinction, which limits our capability to study the stellar populations present there. The Vista Variables in the Vía Láctea (VVV) ESO Public Survey has ...

    • 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. ...

    • New VVV Survey Globular Cluster Candidates in the Milky Way Bulge 

      Minniti, Dante; Geisler, Douglas; Alonso-García, Javier; Palma, Tali; Beamin, Juan Carlos; Borissova, Jura; Catelan, Marcio; Clariá, Juan J.; Cohen, Roger E.; Ramos, Rodrigo Contreras; Dias, Bruno; Fernandez-Trincado, Jose; Gomez, Matias; Hempel, Maren; Ivanov, Valentin D.; Kurtev, Radostin; Lucas, Philip; Moni-Bidin, Christian; Pullen, Joyce; Alegría, Sebastian Ramírez; Saito, Roberto K.; Valenti, Elena (2017-11-10)
      It is likely that a number of Galactic globular clusters remain to be discovered, especially toward the Galactic bulge. High stellar density combined with high and differential interstellar reddening are the two major ...