New Galactic star clusters discovered in the VVV survey

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 532, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Borissova, J ^a   Bonatto, C ^b   Kurtev, R ^a   Clarke, J R A ^a   Penaloza F ^a   Sale, S E ^a,e   Minniti, D ^e,s   Alonso Garcia J ^e   Artigau, E ^c   Barba R ^p,q   Bica, E ^b   Baume, G L ^d   Catelan, M ^e   Chene A N ^a,f   Dias, B ^g   Folkes, S L ^a   Froebrich, D ^h   Geisler, D ^f   De Grijs, R ^i,j   Hanson, M M ^r   Hempel, M ^e   Ivanov, V D ^k   Kumar, M S N ^l   Lucas, P ^m   Mauro, F ^f   Bidin, C Moni ^f   Rejkuba, M ^o   Saito, R K ^e   Tamura, M ⁿ   Toledo, I ^e   more..

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE VALPARAÍSO   (Chile)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

^e PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^h UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^j Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

^k European Southern Observatory   (China)

^l CENTRO DE ASTROFÍSICA   (Portugal)

^m UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

ⁿ NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^o EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^p DEPARTAMENTO DE BIOLOGÍA   (Chile)

^q Instituto de Ciencias Astronómicas de la Tierra y del Espacio ICATE CONICET   (Argentina)

^r UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^s VATICAN OBSERVATORY   (Italy)

more..

Author keywords

Infrared: general; Open clusters and associations: general; Stars: early type

Indexed keywords

COLOR; LANTHANUM ALLOYS; LIGHT SOURCES; SURVEYS;

COLOR MAGNITUDE DIAGRAMS; COLOR-COLOR DIAGRAMS; INFRARED SOURCE; INFRARED: GENERAL; OPEN CLUSTERS AND ASSOCIATIONS: GENERAL; STAR FORMATION REGIONS; STARS: EARLY-TYPE; VISIBLE AND INFRA-RED SURVEY TELESCOPE FOR ASTRONOMIES;

STARS;

EID: 79961156014     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201116662     Document Type: Article

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