Unveiling VVV/WISE Mira variables on the far side of the Galactic disk: Distances, kinematics and a new extinction law

Autor: Albarracín, Rogelio, Zoccali, M., Carvajal, J. Olivares, Rojas-Arriagada, Á., Minniti, J. H., Catelan, M., De Leo, M., Gran, F., Ramos, R. Contreras, Navarro, Á. Valenzuela, Salvo-Guajardo, C.

The structure and kinematics of the Milky Way disk are largely inferred from the solar vicinity. To gain a comprehensive understanding, it is essential to find reliable tracers in less-explored regions like the bulge and the far side of the disk. Mir

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/2411.04623

Abundances of iron-peak elements in 58 bulge spheroid stars from APOGEE

Autor: Barbuy, B., Friaça, A. C. S., Ernandes, H., da Silva, P., Souza, S. O., Fernández-Trincado, J. G., Cunha, K., Smith, V. V., Masseron, T., Pérez-Villegas, A., Chiappini, C., Queiroz, A. B. A., Santiago, B. X., Beers, T. C., Anders, F., Schiavon, R. P., Valentini, M., Minniti, D., Geisler, D., Souto, D., Placco, V. M., Zoccali, M., Feltzing, S., Schultheis, M., Nitschelm, C.

Stars presently identified in the bulge spheroid are probably very old, and their abundances can be interpreted as due to the fast chemical enrichment of the early Galactic bulge. The abundances of the iron-peak elements are important tracers of nucl

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.13751

The Valuable Long-period Cluster Cepheid KQ Scorpii and other Calibration Candidates

Autor: Majaess, Daniel, Turner, David G., Minniti, Dante, Alonso-Garcia, Javier, Saito, Roberto K.

The classical Cepheid KQ Sco is a valuable anchor for the distance scale because of its long pulsation period ($28^{\rm d}.7$) and evidence implying membership in the open cluster UBC 1558. Analyses tied to Gaia DR3 astrometry, photometry, spectrosco

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/2408.03371

VVV catalog of ab-type RR Lyrae in the inner Galactic bulge

Autor: Zoccali, M., Quezada, C., Ramos, R. Contreras, Valenti, E., Valenzuela-Navarro, A., Carvajal, J. Olivares, Arriagada, A. Rojas, Minniti, J. H., Gran, F., De Leo, M.

Publikováno v: A&A 689, A240 (2024)

Context. Observational evidence has accumulated in the past years, showing that the Galactic bulge includes two populations, a metal poor and a metal rich one that, in addition to a different metallicity, show different alpha over iron abundances, sp

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/2407.11226

The VISTA Variables in the V\'ia L\'actea eXtended (VVVX) ESO public survey: Completion of the observations and legacy

Autor: Saito, R. K., Hempel, M., Alonso-García, J., Lucas, P. W., Minniti, D., Alonso, S., Baravalle, L., Borissova, J., Caceres, C., Chené, A. N., Cross, N. J. G., Duplancic, F., Garro, E. R., Gómez, M., Ivanov, V. D., Kurtev, R., Luna, A., Majaess, D., Navarro, M. G., Pullen, J. B., Rejkuba, M., Sanders, J. L., Smith, L. C., Albino, P. H. C., Alonso, M. V., Amôres, E. B., Angeloni, R., Arias, J. I., Arnaboldi, M., Barbuy, B., Bayo, A., Beamin, J. C., Bedin, L. R., Bellini, A., Benjamin, R. A., Bica, E., Bonatto, C. J., Botan, E., Braga, V. F., Brown, D. A., Cabral, J. B., Camargo, D., Garatti, A. Caratti o, Carballo-Bello, J. A., Catelan, M., Chavero, C., Chijani, M. A., Clariá, J. J., Coldwell, G. V., Peña, C. Contreras, Ramos, R. Contreras, Corral-Santana, J. M., Cortés, C. C., Cortés-Contreras, M., Cruz, P., Daza-Perilla, I. V., Debattista, V. P., Dias, B., Donoso, L., D'Souza, R., Emerson, J. P., Federle, S., Fermiano, V., Fernandez, J., Fernández-Trincado, J. G., Ferreira, T., Lopes, C. E. Ferreira, Firpo, V., Flores-Quintana, C., Fraga, L., Froebrich, D., Galdeano, D., Gavignaud, I., Geisler, D., Gerhard, O. E., Gieren, W., Gonzalez, O. A., Gramajo, L. V., Gran, F., Granitto, P. M., Griggio, M., Guo, Z., Gurovich, S., Hilker, M., Jones, H. R. A., Kammers, R., Kuhn, M. A., Kumar, M. S . N., Kundu, R., Lares, M., Libralato, M., Lima, E., Maccarone, T. J., Cortés, P. Marchant, Martin, E. L., Masetti, N., Matsunaga, N., Mauro, F., McDonald, I., Mejías, A., Mesa, V., Milla-Castro, F. P., Minniti, J. H., Bidin, C. Moni, Montenegro, K., Morris, C., Motta, V., Navarete, F., Molina, C. Navarro, Nikzat, F., Castellón, J. L. Nilo, Obasi, C., Ortigoza-Urdaneta, M., Palma, T., Parisi, C., Ramírez, K. Pena, Pereyra, L., Perez, N., Petralia, I., Pichel, A., Pignata, G., Alegría, S. Ramírez, Rojas, A. F., Rojas, D., Roman-Lopes, A., Rovero, A. C., Saroon, S., Schmidt, E. O., Schröder, A. C., Schultheis, M., Sgró, M. A., Solano, E., Soto, M., Stecklum, B., Steeghs, D., Tamura, M., Tissera, P., Valcarce, A. A. R., Valotto, C. A., Vasquez, S., Villalon, C., Villanova, S., Cádiz, F. Vivanco, Bacigalupo, R. Zelada, Zijlstra, A., Zoccali, M.

Publikováno v: A&A 689, A148 (2024)

The ESO public survey VISTA Variables in the V\'ia L\'actea (VVV) surveyed the inner Galactic bulge and the adjacent southern Galactic disk from $2009-2015$. Upon its conclusion, the complementary VVV eXtended (VVVX) survey has expanded both the temp

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.16646