Browsing Research publications by Author "Villanueva, V."

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    • Discovery of a brown dwarf companion to the A3V star β Circini 

      Smith, Leigh; Lucas, P.W.; Peña, C. Contreras; Kurtev, R.; Marocco, Federico; Jones, H.R.A.; Beamin, J.C.; Napiwotzki, Ralf; Borissova, J.; Burningham, B.; Faherty, J.; Pinfield, D.J.; Gromadzki, M.; Ivanov, V.D.; Minniti, D.; Stimson, W.; Villanueva, V. (2015-12-21)
      We report the discovery of an L dwarf companion to the A3V star β Circini. VVV J151721.49−585131.5, or β Cir B, was identified in a proper motion and parallax catalogue of the VISTA Variables in the Vía Láctea survey as ...

    • Near-infrared photometry and spectroscopy of the low Galactic latitude globular cluster 2MASS-GC03 

      Carballo-Bello, Julio A.; Alegria, S. Ramirez; Borissova, J.; Smith, L. C.; Kurtev, R.; Lucas, P. W.; Bidin, Ch Moni; Alonso-Garcia, J.; Minniti, D.; Palma, T.; Dekany, I.; Medina, N.; Moyano, M.; Villanueva, V.; Kuhn, M. A. (2016-10-11)
      We present deep near-infrared photometry and spectroscopy of the globular cluster 2MASS-GC03 projected in the Galactic disk using MMIRS on the Clay telescope (Las Campanas Observatory) and VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea ...

    • VVV High proper motion stars I. The catalogue of bright Ks stars 

      Kurtev, R.; Gromadzki, M.; Beamin, J. C.; Folkes, S. L.; Ramirez, K. Pena; Ivanov, V. D.; Borissova, J.; Villanueva, V.; Minniti, D.; Mendez, R.; Lucas, P. W.; Smith, L. C.; Pinfield, D. J.; Kuhn, M. A.; Jones, H. R. A.; Antonova, A.; Yip, A. K. P. (2017-01-01)
      Knowledge of the stellar content near the Sun is important for a broad range of topics ranging from the search for planets to the study of Milky Way structure. The most powerful method for identifying potentially nearby ...