The ESO public survey VISTA Variables in the V\'ia L\'actea (VVV) has contributed with deep multi-epoch photometry of the Galactic bulge and the adjacent part of the disk over 526 square degrees. More than a hundred cluster candidates have been reported thanks to this survey. We present the fifth article in a series of papers focused on young and massive clusters discovered in the VVV survey. In this paper, we present the physical characterization of five clusters with a spectroscopically confirmed OB-type stellar population. To characterize the clusters, we used near-infrared photometry (J, H, and KS) from the VVV survey and near-infrared K-band spectroscopy from ISAAC at VLT, following the methodology presented in the previous articles of the series. All clusters in our sample are very young (ages between 1-20 Myr), and their total mass are between (1.07−0.30+0.40)⋅102M⊙ and (4.17−2.08+4.15)⋅103M⊙. We observed a relation between the clusters total mass Mecl and the mass of their most massive stellar member mmax, even for clusters with an age < 10 Myr.
@article{arxiv.1602.04898,
title = {Massive open star clusters using the VVV survey V. Young clusters with an OB stellar population},
author = {S. Ramírez Alegría and J. Borissova and A. -N. Chené and C. Bonatto and R. Kurtev and P. Amigo and M. Kuhn and M. Gromadzki and J. A. Carballo-Bello},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.04898},
year = {2016}
}