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 V\'ia L\'actea (VVV) Survey to search for RR Lyrae stars towards 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...

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Main Authors: Minniti, Dante (Author) , Dékány, István (Author)
Format: Article (Journal) Chapter/Article
Language:English
Published: 2017
In: Arxiv

Online Access:Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: http://arxiv.org/abs/1703.02033
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Author Notes: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 J. 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, Manuela Zoccali
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FSR 1716: a new Milky Way globular cluster confirmed using VVV RR Lyrae stars by Minniti, Dante (Author) , Dékány, István (Author) ,


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