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    • NPARSEC : NTT Parallaxes of Southern Extremely Cool objects. Goals, targets, procedures and first results 

      Smart, R.L.; Tinney, C.G.; Bucciarelli, B.; Marocco, F.; Abbas, U.; Andrei, A.; Bernardi, G.; Burningham, B.; Cardoso, C.; Costa, E.; Crosta, M.T.; Dapra, M.; Day-Jones, A.; Goldman, B.; Jones, H.R.A.; Lattanzi, M.G.; Leggett, S.K.; Lucas, P.W.; Mendez, R.; Penna, J.L.; Pinfield, D.J.; Smith, Leigh; Sozzetti, A.; Vecchiato, A. (2013-08)
      The discovery and subsequent detailed study of T dwarfs have provided many surprises and pushed the physics and modelling of cool atmospheres in unpredicted directions. Distance is a critical parameter for studies of these ...
    • Parallaxes of southern extremely cool objects III : 118 L and T dwarfs 

      Smart, R. L.; Bucciarelli, B.; Jones, H. R. A.; Marocco, F.; Andrei, A. H.; Goldman, B.; Mendez, R. A.; d'Avila, V. A.; Burningham, B.; Camargo, J. I. B.; Crosta, M. T.; Daprà, M.; Jenkins, J. S.; Lachaume, R.; Lattanzi, M. G.; Penna, J. L.; Pinfield, D. J.; Neto, D. N. da Silva; Sozzetti, A.; Vecchiato, A. (2018-12-11)
      We present new results from the Parallaxes of Southern Extremely Cool dwarfs program to measure parallaxes, proper motions and multiepoch photometry of L and early T dwarfs. The observations were made on 108 nights over ...
    • Parallaxes of southern extremely cool objects. I. : Targets, proper motions, and first results 

      Andrei, A.H.; Smart, R.L.; Penna, J.L.; d'Avila, V.A.; Bucciarelli, B.; Camargo, J.I.B.; Crosta, M.T.; Dapra, M.; Goldman, B.; Jones, H.R.A.; Lattanzi, M.G.; Nicastro, L.; Pinfield, D.J.; da Silva Neto, D. N.; Teixeira, R. (2011)
      We present results from the PARallaxes of Southern Extremely Cool objects ( PARSEC) program, an observational program begun in 2007 April to determine parallaxes for 122 L and 28 T southern hemisphere dwarfs using the Wide ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...