• Age and metallicity distribution of the galactic bulge from extensive optical and near-IR stellar photometry 

      Zoccali, Manuela; Renzini, Alvio; Ortolani, Sergio; Greggio, Laura; Saviane, Ivo; Cassisi, Santi; Rejkuba, Marina; Barbuy, Beatriz; Rich, Robert Michael; Bica, Eduardo Luiz Damiani (2003) [Artigo de periódico]
      We present a new determination of the metallicity distribution, age, and luminosity function of the Galactic bulge stellar population. By combining near-IR data from the 2MASS survey, from the SOFI imager at ESO NTT and ...
    • FSR 1716 : a new Milky Way globular cluster confirmed using VVV RR Lyrae stars 

      Minniti, Dante; Palma, Tali; Dékány, István; Hempel, Maren; Rejkuba, Marina; Pullen, Joyce; Alonso Garcia, Javier; Barbá, Rodolfo H.; Barbuy, Beatriz; Bica, Eduardo Luiz Damiani; Bonatto, Charles Jose; Borissova, Jura; Catelan, Márcio; Carballo-Bello, Julio A.; Chené, André-Nicolas; Claria Olmedo, Juan Jose; Cohen, Roger; Contreras Ramos, Rodrigo; Dias, Bruno Moreira de Souza; Emerson, Jim P.; Froebrich, Dirk; Buckner, Anne S. M.; Geisler, Doug; Gonzalez, Oscar A.; Gran, Felipe; Hajdu, Gergely; Irwin, Michael John; Ivanov, Valentin D.; Kurtev, Radostin Georgiev; Lucas, Philip W.; Majaess, Daniel J.; Mauro, Francesco; Moni Bidin, Christian; Navarrete, Camila; Ramírez Alegría, Sebastián; Saito, Roberto K.; Valenti, Elena; Zoccali, Manuela (2017) [Artigo de periódico]
      We use deep multi-epoch near-IR images of the VISTA Variables in the Vía Láctea (VVV) Survey to search for RR Lyrae stars toward the Southern Galactic plane. Here, we report the discovery of a group of RR Lyrae stars close ...
    • New Galactic star clusters discovered in the VVV survey 

      Borissova, Jura; Bonatto, Charles Jose; Kurtev, Radostin Georgiev; Clarke, J. R. A.; Peñaloza, Francisco; Sale, Stuart E.; Minniti, Dante; Alonso Garcia, Javier; Artigau, Étienne; Barbá, Rodolfo H.; Bica, Eduardo Luiz Damiani; Baume, Gustavo Luis; Catelan, Márcio; Chené, André-Nicolas; Dias, Bruno Moreira de Souza; Folkes, S. L.; Froebrich, Dirk; Geisler, Doug; Grijs, Richard de; Hanson, M. M.; Hempel, Maren; Ivanov, Valentin D.; Kumar, M. S. N.; Lucas, Philip W.; Mauro, Francesco; Moni Bidin, Christian; Rejkuba, Marina; Saito, Roberto K.; Tamura, Motohide; Toledo, Ignacio (2011) [Artigo de periódico]
      Context. VISTA Variables in the Vía Láctea (VVV) is one of the six ESO Public Surveys operating on the new 4-m Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA). VVV is scanning the Milky Way bulge and an adjacent ...
    • 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, Roberto K.; Hempel, Maren; Minniti, Dante; Lucas, Philip W.; Rejkuba, Marina; Toledo, Ignacio; Gonzalez, O. A.; Alonso Garcia, Javier; Irwin, Michael John; Gonzalez-Solares, Eduardo; Hodgkin, Simon; Lewis, James R.; Cross, Nick; Ivanov, Valentin D.; Kerins, Eamonn; Emerson, Jim P.; Soto, M.; Amôres, Eduardo Brescansin de; Gurovich, Sebástian; Dékány, István; Angeloni, Rodolfo; Beamin, Juan Carlos; Catelan, Márcio; Padilla, Nelson; Zoccali, Manuela; Pietrukowicz, Pawel; Moni Bidin, Christian; Mauro, Francesco; Geisler, Doug; Folkes, S. L.; Sale, Stuart E.; Borissova, Jura; Kurtev, Radostin Georgiev; Ahumada, Andrea Veronica; Alonso, Maria Victoria; Adamson, Andy; Arias, Julia Inés; Bandyopadhyay, Reba M.; Barbá, Rodolfo H.; Barbuy, Beatriz; Baume, Gustavo Luis; Bedin, Luigi R.; Bellini, Andrea; Bica, Eduardo Luiz Damiani; Bonatto, Charles Jose; Bronfman, Leonardo; Carraro, Giovanni; Chené, André-Nicolas; Claria Olmedo, Juan Jose; Clarke, J. R. A.; Contreras, C.; Corvillon, Andrea; Grijs, Richard de; Dias, Bruno Moreira de Souza; Drew, Janet E.; Fariña, Cecilia; Feinstein Baigorri, Carlos; Fernández Lajús, Eduardo Eusebio; Gamen, Roberto C.; Gieren, Wolfgang P.; Goldman, Bertrand; González-Fernández, Carlos; Grand, R. J. J.; Gunthardt, Guillermo; Hambly, Nigel C.; Hanson, M. M.; Helminiak, Krzysztof Grzegorz; Hoare, Melvin G.; Huckvale, L.; Jordán, Andrés; Kinemuchi, Karen; Longmore, Andy; López Corredoira, Martín; Maccarone, Thomas J.; Majaess, Daniel J.; Martín Guerrero de Escalante, Eduardo L.; Masetti, Nicola; Mennickent, Ronnald Enrique; Mirabel, I. Felix; Monaco, Lorenzo; Morelli, Lorenzo; Motta, Verónica; Palma, Tali; Parisi, M. C.; Parker, Quentin; Peñaloza, Francisco; Pietrzynski, Grzegorz; Pignata, Giuliano; Popescu, Bogdan; Read, Michael A.; Rojas, Alejandra; Roman-Lopes, Alexandre; Ruiz, Maria Teresa; Saviane, Ivo; Schreiber, Matthias R.; Schröder, A. C.; Sharma, S.; Smith, Michael D.; Sodre Junior, Laerte; Stead, Joe; Stephens, Andrew; Tamura, Motohide; Tappert, Claus; Thompson, Mark A.; Valenti, Elena; Vanzi, Leonardo; Walton, Nicholas A.; Weidmann, Walter; Zijlstra, Albert (2012) [Artigo de periódico]
      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 ...