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The VISTA Variable Survey (VVV) is able to map the Galaxy at l<0 with an unpaired depth (at least 3 mag deeper than 2MASS), opening new possibilities for studying the inner structure of the Milky Way. In this paper we concentrate on the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-09-28 C. González-Fernández , M. López-Corredoira , E. B. Amôres , D. Minniti , P. Lucas , I. Toledo

We show the preliminary analysis of some Galactic stellar clusters (GSCls) candidates and the results of the analysis of two new interesting GSCls found in the "VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea" (VVV) Survey. The VVV photometric data are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-03-23 F. Mauro , C. Moni Bidin , D. Geisler

Aims. We use near-infrared, ground-based data from the VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) survey to indirectly extend the astrometry provided by the Gaia catalog to objects in heavily-extincted regions towards the Galactic bulge and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-03 M. Griggio , M. Libralato , A. Bellini , L. R. Bedin , J. Anderson , L. C. Smith , D. Minniti

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…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-16 S. Ramírez Alegría , J. Borissova , A. -N. Chené , C. Bonatto , R. Kurtev , P. Amigo , M. Kuhn , M. Gromadzki , J. A. Carballo-Bello

Most of our knowledge about the structure of the Milky Way has come from the study of variable stars. Among the variables, mimicking the periodic variation of pulsating stars, are the eclipsing binaries. These stars are important in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-31 E. Botan , R. K. Saito , D. Minniti , A. Kanaan , R. Contreras Ramos , T. S. Ferreira , L. V. Gramajo , M. G. Navarro

We analyze 1602 microlensing events found in the VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) near-infrared (NIR) survey data. We obtain spatially-resolved, efficiency-corrected timescale distributions across the Galactic bulge…

Long-period variable stars (LPVs) are pulsating red giants, primarily in the asymptotic giant branch phase, and they include both Miras and semi-regular variables (SRVs). Their period-age and period-luminosity relations enable us to trace…

The Quintuplet cluster is one of the most massive star clusters in the Milky Way, situated very close to the Galactic center. We present a new search for variable stars in the vicinity of the cluster, using the five-year database of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-26 C. Navarro Molina , J. Borissova , M. Catelan , J. Alonso-García , E. Kerins , R. Kurtev , P. W. Lucas , N. Medina , D. Minniti , I. Dékány

This paper is the second in a series describing the southern Galactic Disk Survey (GDS) performed at the Universit\"atssternwarte Bochum near Cerro Armazones in Chile. Haas et al. (2012, Paper I) presented the survey design and a the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-10 M. Hackstein , Ch. Fein , M. Haas , M. Ramolla , F. Pozo Nunez , A. Barr Dominguez , L. Kaderhandt , K. Thomsch , N. Niedworok , Ch. Westhues , R. Chini

Solid insight into the physics of the inner Milky Way is key to understanding our Galaxy's evolution, but extreme dust obscuration has historically hindered efforts to map the area along the Galactic mid-plane. New comprehensive…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-21 I. Dékány , D. Minniti , D. Majaess , M. Zoccali , G. Hajdu , J. Alonso-García , M. Catelan , W. Gieren , J. Borissova

The VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) survey obtained near-infrared photometry toward the Galactic bulge and the southern disc plane for a decade (2010 - 2019). We designed a modified Lomb-Scargle method to search for large-amplitude…

The VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) survey and its extension, have been monitoring about 560 square degrees of sky centred on the Galactic bulge and inner disc for nearly a decade. The photometric catalogue contains of order 10$^9$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-14 Andrea Husseiniova , Peter McGill , Leigh C. Smith , N. Wyn Evans

The VISTA Variables in the V\'ia L\'actea (VVV) is a near-IR time-domain survey of the Galactic bulge and southern plane. One of the main goals of this survey is to reveal the 3D structure of the Milky Way through their variable stars.…

The VISTA Variables in the V\'ia L\'actea (VVV) Survey is one of the six ESO public surveys currently ongoing at the VISTA telescope on Cerro Paranal, Chile. VVV uses near-IR ($ZYJHK_{\rm s}$) filters that at present provide photometry to a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 F. Gran , D. Minniti , R. K. Saito , C. Navarrete , I. Dékány , I. McDonald , R. Contreras Ramos , M. Catelan

The Northern Sky Variability Survey (NSVS) is a temporal record of the sky over the optical magnitude range from 8 to 15.5. It was conducted in the course of the first generation Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment (ROTSE-I) using a…

The purpose of this research is to study the connection of global properties of eight young stellar clusters projected in the Vista Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) ESO Large Public Survey disk area and their young stellar object…

We present the discovery of 816 high amplitude infrared variable stars ($\Delta K_{\rm s} >$ 1 mag) in 119 deg$^2$ of the Galactic midplane covered by the Vista Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) survey. Almost all are new discoveries and…

We present preliminary results of the CIDA Equatorial Variability Survey (CEVS), looking for quasar (hereafter QSO) candidates near the Galactic plane. The CEVS contains photometric data from extended and adjacent regions of the Milky Way…

The VST Photometric Halpha Survey of the Southern Galactic Plane and Bulge (VPHAS+) is surveying the southern Milky Way in u, g, r, i and Halpha at 1 arcsec angular resolution. Its footprint spans the Galactic latitude range -5 < b < +5 at…