Discovery of new Milky Way star cluster candidates in the 2MASS Point Source Catalog. II. Physical properties of the star cluster CC 01

Borissova, J.; Pessev, Peter; Ivanov, V. D.; Saviane, I.; Kurtev, R.; Ivanov, G. R.

doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20034009

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“…However, we believe that it would be useful to search the USNO-B1 catalogue for new globular clusters. We note that globular clusters have also recently been discovered in regions inaccessible to optical surveys using near-IR data (Borisova et al 2003).…”

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“…The detection of known stellar clusters will be examined, and new clusters will be searched for using a method similar to that already adopted in the study of the MW (Ivanov et al 2002;Borissova et al 2003). The analysis of stellar clusters will be centred on the study of CMDs to estimate their ages and metallicities as well as on the comparison with results obtained from optical surveys: MCPS (Zaritsky et al 2004), OGLE (Pietrzynski et al 1998(Pietrzynski et al , 1999, those by de Grijs & Anders (2006) and other dedicated studies.…”

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The VMC survey

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Context. The new VISual and Infrared Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) has started operations. Over its first five years it will be collecting data for six public surveys, one of which is the near-infrared Y JK s VISTA survey of the Magellanic Clouds system (VMC). This survey comprises the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), the Small Magellanic Cloud, the Magellanic Bridge connecting the two galaxies and two fields in the Magellanic Stream. Aims. This paper provides an overview of the VMC survey strategy and presents first science results. The main goals of the VMC survey are the determination of the spatially-resolved star-formation history and the three-dimensional structure of the Magellanic system. The VMC survey is therefore designed to reach stars as faint as the oldest main sequence turn-off point and to constrain the mean magnitude of pulsating variables such as RR Lyrae stars and Cepheids. This paper focuses on observations of VMC fields in the LMC obtained between November 2009 and March 2010. These observations correspond to a completeness of 7% of the planned LMC fields. Methods. The VMC data are comprised of multi-epoch observations which are executed following specific time constraints. The data were reduced using the VISTA Data Flow System pipeline with source catalogues, including astrometric and photometric corrections, produced and made available via the VISTA Science Archive. The VMC data will be released to the astronomical community following the European Southern Observatory's Public Survey policy. The analysis of the data shows that the sensitivity in each wave band agrees with expectations. Uncertainties and completeness of the data are also derived. Results. The first science results, aimed at assessing the scientific quality of the VMC data, include an overview of the distribution of stars in colour-magnitude and colour-colour diagrams, the detection of planetary nebulae and stellar clusters, and the K s band light-curves of variable stars. Conclusions. The VMC survey represents a tremendous improvement, in spatial resolution and sensitivity, on previous panoramic observations of the Magellanic system in the near-infrared, providing a powerful complement to deep observations at other wavelengths.

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“…to compare the Galactic open cluster systems with those of the LMC, SMC, and other extragalactic cluster populations; as well as addressing many other questions. The results presented in this paper are part of a larger program aimed at characterizing the hidden star cluster population in the Galaxy (Borissova et al 2003(Borissova et al , 2006Ivanov et al 2002Ivanov et al , 2005Ivanov et al , 2010Ivanov et al , 2011Kurtev et al 2007Kurtev et al , 2008Kurtev et al , 2009Hanson et al 2008Hanson et al , 2010Bica et al 2003;Dutra et al 2003;Longmore et al 2011). Initially, the project was based on cluster candidates identified from 2MASS (Skrutskie et al 2006) and the Spitzer Space Telescope Galactic Legacy Infrared Mid-Plane Survey Extraordinaire (GLIMPSE, Benjamin et al 2003) survey.…”

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New Galactic star clusters discovered in the VVV survey

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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 different ages. 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 JHK S and Z JK S 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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Discovery of new Milky Way star cluster candidates in the 2MASS Point Source Catalog. II. Physical properties of the star cluster CC 01

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Cluster candidates from the USNO-A2.0 catalogue

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New Galactic star clusters discovered in the VVV survey

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