Three Galactic globular cluster candidates

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 535, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Moni Bidin, C ^a   Mauro, F ^a   Geisler, D ^a   Minniti, D ^b   Catelan, M ^b   Hempel, M ^b   Valenti, E ^c   Valcarce, A A R ^b,e   Alonso Garcia J ^b   Borissova, J ^f   Carraro, G ^d   Lucas, P ^g   Chene A N ^a,f   Zoccali, M ^b   Kurtev, R G ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^c EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^d EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE   (Brazil)

^f UNIVERSIDAD DE VALPARAÍSO   (Chile)

^g UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

globular clusters: general; globular clusters: individual: VVV CL002; globular clusters: individual: VVV CL003; surveys

Indexed keywords

BASIC PARAMETERS; CLUSTER PARAMETERS; COLOR MAGNITUDE DIAGRAMS; FIELD POPULATIONS; GALACTIC BULGE; GALACTIC CENTER; GALACTIC DISKS; GALACTOCENTRIC DISTANCES; GLOBULAR CLUSTERS; GLOBULAR CLUSTERS: GENERAL; GLOBULAR CLUSTERS: INDIVIDUAL; LOW-MASS; METALLICITIES; NEAR INFRARED; NEAR-INFRARED PHOTOMETRY; OPEN CLUSTERS; PROPER MOTION; STAR CLUSTERS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ASTROPHYSICS; INFRARED DEVICES; MINERALOGY; POPULATION STATISTICS; SURVEYS;

STARS;

EID: 80555125198     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201117488     Document Type: Article

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