FSR 1716: a new Milky Way globular cluster confirmed using VVV RR Lyrae stars

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 together in VVV tile d025. Inspection of the VVV images and PSF photometry...

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Hauptverfasser: Minniti, Dante (VerfasserIn) , Dékány, István (VerfasserIn)
Dokumenttyp: Article (Journal)
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2017 March 20
In: The astrophysical journal. Part 2, Letters
Year: 2017, Jahrgang: 838, Heft: 1
ISSN:2041-8213
DOI:10.3847/2041-8213/838/1/L14
Online-Zugang:Verlag, Volltext: http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/838/1/L14
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Verfasserangaben:Dante Minniti, Tali Palma, Istvan Dékány, Maren Hempel, Marina Rejkuba, Joyce Pullen, Javier Alonso-García, Rodolfo Barbá, Beatriz Barbuy, Eduardo Bica, Charles Bonatto, Jura Borissova, Marcio Catelan, Julio A. Carballo-Bello, Andre Nicolas Chene, Juan José Clariá, Roger E. Cohen, Rodrigo Contreras Ramos, Bruno Dias, Jim Emerson, Dirk Froebrich, Anne S.M. Buckner, Douglas Geisler, Oscar A. Gonzalez, Felipe Gran, Gergely Hagdu, Mike Irwin, Valentin D. Ivanov, Radostin Kurtev, Philip W. Lucas, Daniel Majaess, Francesco Mauro, Christian Moni-Bidin, Camila Navarrete, Sebastian Ramírez Alegría, Roberto K. Saito, Elena Valenti, and Manuela Zoccali

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