New Galactic star clusters discovered in the VVV survey

Borissova, J., Bonatto, C., Kurtev, R., Clarke, J.R.A., Penaloza, F., Sale, S.E., Minniti, D., Alonso-Garcia, J., Artigau, E., BarbÃ¡, R., and others. (2011) New Galactic star clusters discovered in the VVV survey. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 532 . ISSN 0004-6361. (doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201116662) (KAR id:49564)

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Abstract

Context. VISTA Variables in the VÃa LÃ¡ctea (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 S-band tile images for stellar overdensities. Subsequently, we examined the composite JHKS and ZJKS color images of each candidate. PSF photometry of 15 Ã? 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. Â© 2011 ESO.

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DOI/Identification number:	10.1051/0004-6361/201116662
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Uncontrolled keywords:	Infrared: general, Open clusters and associations: general, Stars: early-type, Angular sizes, Cambridge, Color images, Color magnitude diagrams, Color-color diagrams, Fundamental parameters, Galactic stars, Infrared source, Infrared: general, Isochrones, Milky ways, Open clusters, Open clusters and associations: general, Star clusters, Star formation regions, Star formations, Stars: early-type, Visible and infra-red survey telescope for astronomies, Color, Light sources, Surveys, Stars
Subjects:	Q Science > QB Astronomy > QB460 Astrophysics
Divisions:	Divisions > Division of Natural Sciences > Physics and Astronomy
Depositing User:	Giles Tarver
Date Deposited:	21 Jul 2015 10:05 UTC
Last Modified:	05 Nov 2024 10:34 UTC
Resource URI:	https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/49564 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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