New Galactic star clusters discovered in the VVV survey
- Autores
- Borissova, J.; Bonatto, C.; Kurtev, R.; Clarke, J. R. A.; Peñaloza, F.; Sale, S. E.; Minniti, D.; Alonso García, J.; Artigau, E.; Barbá, Rodolfo Héctor; Bica, E.; Baume, Gustavo Luis; Catelan, M.; Chenè, A. N.; Dias, B.; Folkes, S. L.; Froebrich, D.; Geisler, D.; Grijs, R. de; Hanson, M. M.; Hempel, M.; Ivanov, V. D.; Kumar, M. N. S.; Lucas, P.; Mauro, F.; Moni Bidin, C.; Rejkuba, M.; Saito, R. K.; Tamura, M.; Toledo, I.
- Año de publicación
- 2011
- Idioma
- inglés
- Tipo de recurso
- artículo
- Estado
- versión publicada
- Descripción
- 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 section of the disk, where star formation activity is high. One of the principal goals of the VVV Survey is to find new star clusters of differentages. Aims. In order to trace the early epochs of star cluster formation we concentrated our search in the directions to those of known star formation regions, masers, radio, and infrared sources. Methods. The disk area covered by VVV was visually inspected using the pipeline processed and calibrated KS-band tile images for stellar overdensities. Subsequently, we examined the composite JHKS and ZJKS color images of each candidate. PSF photometry of 15 × 15 arcmin fields centered on the candidates was then performed on the Cambridge Astronomy Survey Unit reduced images. After statistical field-star decontamination, color-magnitude and color-color diagrams were constructed and analyzed. Results. We report the discovery of 96 new infrared open clusters and stellar groups. Most of the new cluster candidates are faint and compact (with small angular sizes), highly reddened, and younger than 5 Myr. For relatively well populated cluster candidates we derived their fundamental parameters such as reddening, distance, and age by fitting the solar-metallicity Padova isochrones to the color-magnitude diagrams.
Facultad de Ciencias Astronómicas y Geofísicas
Instituto de Astrofísica de La Plata - Materia
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Ciencias Astronómicas
Infrared: general
Open clusters and associations: general
Stars: early-type - Nivel de accesibilidad
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- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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- Institución
- Universidad Nacional de La Plata
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- oai:sedici.unlp.edu.ar:10915/84022
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New Galactic star clusters discovered in the VVV surveyBorissova, J.Bonatto, C.Kurtev, R.Clarke, J. R. A.Peñaloza, F.Sale, S. E.Minniti, D.Alonso García, J.Artigau, E.Barbá, Rodolfo HéctorBica, E.Baume, Gustavo LuisCatelan, M.Chenè, A. N.Dias, B.Folkes, S. L.Froebrich, D.Geisler, D.Grijs, R. deHanson, M. M.Hempel, M.Ivanov, V. D.Kumar, M. N. S.Lucas, P.Mauro, F.Moni Bidin, C.Rejkuba, M.Saito, R. K.Tamura, M.Toledo, I.Ciencias AstronómicasInfrared: generalOpen clusters and associations: generalStars: early-typeContext. 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 section of the disk, where star formation activity is high. One of the principal goals of the VVV Survey is to find new star clusters of differentages. Aims. In order to trace the early epochs of star cluster formation we concentrated our search in the directions to those of known star formation regions, masers, radio, and infrared sources. Methods. The disk area covered by VVV was visually inspected using the pipeline processed and calibrated K<SUB>S</SUB>-band tile images for stellar overdensities. Subsequently, we examined the composite JHK<SUB>S</SUB> and ZJK<SUB>S</SUB> color images of each candidate. PSF photometry of 15 × 15 arcmin fields centered on the candidates was then performed on the Cambridge Astronomy Survey Unit reduced images. After statistical field-star decontamination, color-magnitude and color-color diagrams were constructed and analyzed. Results. We report the discovery of 96 new infrared open clusters and stellar groups. Most of the new cluster candidates are faint and compact (with small angular sizes), highly reddened, and younger than 5 Myr. For relatively well populated cluster candidates we derived their fundamental parameters such as reddening, distance, and age by fitting the solar-metallicity Padova isochrones to the color-magnitude diagrams.Facultad de Ciencias Astronómicas y GeofísicasInstituto de Astrofísica de La Plata2011info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionArticulohttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:ar-repo/semantics/articuloapplication/pdfhttp://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/84022enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/issn/0004-6361info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1051/0004-6361/201116662info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)reponame:SEDICI (UNLP)instname:Universidad Nacional de La Platainstacron:UNLP2025-09-29T11:16:10Zoai:sedici.unlp.edu.ar:10915/84022Institucionalhttp://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/Universidad públicaNo correspondehttp://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/oai/snrdalira@sedici.unlp.edu.arArgentinaNo correspondeNo correspondeNo correspondeopendoar:13292025-09-29 11:16:10.482SEDICI (UNLP) - Universidad Nacional de La Platafalse |
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New Galactic star clusters discovered in the VVV survey |
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New Galactic star clusters discovered in the VVV survey |
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New Galactic star clusters discovered in the VVV survey Borissova, J. Ciencias Astronómicas Infrared: general Open clusters and associations: general Stars: early-type |
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New Galactic star clusters discovered in the VVV survey |
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New Galactic star clusters discovered in the VVV survey |
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New Galactic star clusters discovered in the VVV survey |
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New Galactic star clusters discovered in the VVV survey |
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New Galactic star clusters discovered in the VVV survey |
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Borissova, J. Bonatto, C. Kurtev, R. Clarke, J. R. A. Peñaloza, F. Sale, S. E. Minniti, D. Alonso García, J. Artigau, E. Barbá, Rodolfo Héctor Bica, E. Baume, Gustavo Luis Catelan, M. Chenè, A. N. Dias, B. Folkes, S. L. Froebrich, D. Geisler, D. Grijs, R. de Hanson, M. M. Hempel, M. Ivanov, V. D. Kumar, M. N. S. Lucas, P. Mauro, F. Moni Bidin, C. Rejkuba, M. Saito, R. K. Tamura, M. Toledo, I. |
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Borissova, J. |
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Borissova, J. Bonatto, C. Kurtev, R. Clarke, J. R. A. Peñaloza, F. Sale, S. E. Minniti, D. Alonso García, J. Artigau, E. Barbá, Rodolfo Héctor Bica, E. Baume, Gustavo Luis Catelan, M. Chenè, A. N. Dias, B. Folkes, S. L. Froebrich, D. Geisler, D. Grijs, R. de Hanson, M. M. Hempel, M. Ivanov, V. D. Kumar, M. N. S. Lucas, P. Mauro, F. Moni Bidin, C. Rejkuba, M. Saito, R. K. Tamura, M. Toledo, I. |
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author |
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Bonatto, C. Kurtev, R. Clarke, J. R. A. Peñaloza, F. Sale, S. E. Minniti, D. Alonso García, J. Artigau, E. Barbá, Rodolfo Héctor Bica, E. Baume, Gustavo Luis Catelan, M. Chenè, A. N. Dias, B. Folkes, S. L. Froebrich, D. Geisler, D. Grijs, R. de Hanson, M. M. Hempel, M. Ivanov, V. D. Kumar, M. N. S. Lucas, P. Mauro, F. Moni Bidin, C. Rejkuba, M. Saito, R. K. Tamura, M. Toledo, I. |
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Ciencias Astronómicas Infrared: general Open clusters and associations: general Stars: early-type |
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Ciencias Astronómicas Infrared: general Open clusters and associations: general Stars: early-type |
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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 section of the disk, where star formation activity is high. One of the principal goals of the VVV Survey is to find new star clusters of differentages. Aims. In order to trace the early epochs of star cluster formation we concentrated our search in the directions to those of known star formation regions, masers, radio, and infrared sources. Methods. The disk area covered by VVV was visually inspected using the pipeline processed and calibrated K<SUB>S</SUB>-band tile images for stellar overdensities. Subsequently, we examined the composite JHK<SUB>S</SUB> and ZJK<SUB>S</SUB> color images of each candidate. PSF photometry of 15 × 15 arcmin fields centered on the candidates was then performed on the Cambridge Astronomy Survey Unit reduced images. After statistical field-star decontamination, color-magnitude and color-color diagrams were constructed and analyzed. Results. We report the discovery of 96 new infrared open clusters and stellar groups. Most of the new cluster candidates are faint and compact (with small angular sizes), highly reddened, and younger than 5 Myr. For relatively well populated cluster candidates we derived their fundamental parameters such as reddening, distance, and age by fitting the solar-metallicity Padova isochrones to the color-magnitude diagrams. Facultad de Ciencias Astronómicas y Geofísicas Instituto de Astrofísica de La Plata |
description |
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 section of the disk, where star formation activity is high. One of the principal goals of the VVV Survey is to find new star clusters of differentages. Aims. In order to trace the early epochs of star cluster formation we concentrated our search in the directions to those of known star formation regions, masers, radio, and infrared sources. Methods. The disk area covered by VVV was visually inspected using the pipeline processed and calibrated K<SUB>S</SUB>-band tile images for stellar overdensities. Subsequently, we examined the composite JHK<SUB>S</SUB> and ZJK<SUB>S</SUB> color images of each candidate. PSF photometry of 15 × 15 arcmin fields centered on the candidates was then performed on the Cambridge Astronomy Survey Unit reduced images. After statistical field-star decontamination, color-magnitude and color-color diagrams were constructed and analyzed. Results. We report the discovery of 96 new infrared open clusters and stellar groups. Most of the new cluster candidates are faint and compact (with small angular sizes), highly reddened, and younger than 5 Myr. For relatively well populated cluster candidates we derived their fundamental parameters such as reddening, distance, and age by fitting the solar-metallicity Padova isochrones to the color-magnitude diagrams. |
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