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Navarro, María Gabriela; Minniti, Dante; Contreras Ramos, Rodrigo, E-mail: mariagabriela.navarro@uniroma1.it2020
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[en] The VVV microlensing search has recently surveyed the region of the Galactic plane at b = 0 within −10.00 ≤ l ≤ 10.44 deg. in the near-infrared (IR) discovering hundreds of microlensing events. In this paper we explore the microlensing events with background sources that might be located in the far disk of the Galaxy, beyond the bulge. We discuss the possible configurations for the microlensing lenses and sources located at different places within the Galactic plane. Then we search for these events using the local red clump centroids of the VVV near-IR color–magnitude diagrams. According to the estimated distances and proper motions, N = 20 events may have sources located in the far disk. The candidates for far-disk sources show on average longer timescales (t E = 49.3 ± 7.9 days) than the mean of the timescale distribution for the bulge red clump sources (t E = 36.4 ± 1.1 days). We conclude that the population of microlensing events in the region −10.00 ≤ l ≤ 10.44, −0.46 ≤ b ≤ 0.65 deg. contains a non-negligible number of events with candidate far-disk sources (∼11%). Our results are relevant in view of future microlensing plans with the Roman Space Telescope (formerly WFIRST) in the near-IR.
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Navarro, María Gabriela; Minniti, Dante; Pullen, Joyce; Ramos, Rodrigo Contreras, E-mail: mgnavarro@uc.cl2020
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[en] We search for microlensing events in fields along the Galactic minor axis, ranging from the Galactic center to −3.°7 < b < 3.°9 using the VISTA Variables in the Via Láctea (VVV) survey near-IR photometry. The new search is made across VVV tiles b291, b305, b319, b347, b361, and b375, covering a total area of about 11.5 deg2. We find a total of N = 238 new microlensing events in this new area, N = 74, which are classified as bulge red clump (RC) giant sources. Combining them with N = 122 events that we had previously reported in the Galactic center (VVV tile b333), allows us to study the latitude distribution of the microlensing events reaching the Galactic plane at b = 00 for the first time. We find a very strong dependence of the number of microlensing events with Galactic latitude, a number that increases rapidly toward the Galactic center by one order of magnitude from ° to b = 0° with a much steeper gradient than with Galactic longitude. The microlensing event population shows a flattened distribution (axial ratio b/a ≈ 1.5). The final sample shows a shorter mean timescale distribution than the Galactic plane sample for both the complete population and RC stars.
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[en] We report the discovery of a peculiar horizontal branch (HB) in NGC 6440 and NGC 6569, two massive and metal-rich Galactic globular clusters (GGCs) located in the Galactic bulge, within 4 kpc from the Galactic center. In both clusters, two distinct clumps are detected at the level of the cluster HB, separated by only ∼0.1 mag in the Ks band. They were detected with IR photometric data collected with the 'VISTA Variables in the Vía Láctea' Survey, and confirmed in independent IR catalogs available in the literature and Hubble Space Telescope optical photometry. Our analysis demonstrates that these clumps are real cluster features, not a product of field contamination or interstellar reddening. The observed split HBs could be a signature of two stellar sub-populations with different chemical composition and/or age, as recently found in Terzan 5, but it cannot be excluded that they are caused by evolutionary effects, in particular for NGC 6440. This interpretation, however, requires an anomalously high helium content (Y > 0.30). Our discovery suggests that such a peculiar HB morphology could be a common feature of massive, metal-rich bulge GGCs.
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Astrophysical Journal Letters; ISSN 2041-8205; ; v. 761(2); [6 p.]
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Minniti, Dante; Ramos, Rodrigo Contreras; Zoccali, Manuela; Gran, Felipe; Rejkuba, Marina; Valenti, Elena; Gonzalez, Oscar A., E-mail: dante@astrofisica.cl, E-mail: rcontrer@astro.puc.cl2016
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[en] Galactic nuclei, such as that of the Milky Way, are extreme regions with high stellar densities, and in most cases, the hosts of a supermassive black hole. One of the scenarios proposed for the formation of the Galactic nucleus is merging of primordial globular clusters. An implication of this model is that this region should host stars that are characteristically found in old Milky Way globular clusters. RR Lyrae stars are primary distance indicators, well known representatives of old and metal-poor stellar populations, and therefore are regularly found in globular clusters. Here we report the discovery of a dozen RR Lyrae type ab stars in the vicinity of the Galactic center, i.e., in the so-called nuclear stellar bulge of the Milky Way. This discovery provides the first direct observational evidence that the Galactic nuclear stellar bulge contains ancient stars (>10 Gyr old). Based on this we conclude that merging globular clusters likely contributed to the build-up of the high stellar density in the nuclear stellar bulge of the Milky Way.
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Astrophysical Journal Letters; ISSN 2041-8205; ; v. 830(1); [6 p.]
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[en] We present the physical characterization of FSR 1758, a new large, massive object very recently discovered in the Galactic Bulge. The combination of optical data from the 2nd Gaia Data Release and the DECam Plane Survey and near-IR data from the VISTA Variables in the Vía Láctea Extended Survey led to a clean sample of likely members. Based on this integrated data set, position, distance, reddening, size, metallicity, absolute magnitude, and proper motion (PM) of this object are measured. We estimate the following parameters: α = 17:31:12, δ = −39:48:30 (J2000), D = 11.5 ± 1.0 kpc, mag, R c = 10 pc, R t = 150 pc, dex, M i < −8.6 ± 1.0, μ α = −2.85 mas yr−1, and μ δ = 2.55 mas yr−1. The nature of this object is discussed. If FRS 1758 is a genuine globular cluster (GC), it is one of the largest in the Milky Way, with a size comparable or even larger than that of ω Cen, being also an extreme outlier in the size versus Galactocentric distance diagram. The presence of a concentration of long-period RR Lyrae variable stars and blue horizontal branch stars suggests that it is a typical metal-poor GC of Oosterhoff type II. Further exploration of a larger surrounding field reveals common PM stars, suggesting either tidal debris or that FRS 1758 is actually the central part of a larger extended structure such as a new dwarf galaxy, tentatively named Scorpius. In either case, this object is remarkable, and its discovery graphically illustrates the possibility of finding other large objects hidden in the Galactic Bulge using future surveys.
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Astrophysical Journal Letters; ISSN 2041-8205; ; v. 870(2); [8 p.]
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[en] We have applied the semi-empirical spectral analysis, developed by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)-IV/Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment 2 (APOGEE2) Massive Star Team, to a large sample of new O- and B-type stars identified along the Sagittarius spiral arm, in the direction of the southern star clusters NGC3603 and NGC3576. We obtained H-band spectra for 265 point sources, using the APOGEE2-S spectrograph at the du Pont Telescope at the Las Campanas Observatory. We analyzed the associated spectral features deriving spectral types, as well as the massive star distribution along the line of sight. From a total of 265 science targets, 95 are classified as mid- to late-O-type stars (for which only 10 O-type stars are previously known in the literature), 38 are found to be early- to mid-B-type stars, and 32 are classified as either yellow or blue supergiants, completing a total of 165 massive stars.
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[en] In this paper, we describe the results obtained in our study of Galactic Wolf–Rayet stars of the WN type, using the APOGEE2 spectrographs. The APOGEE2 WN star near-infrared spectra presented here were selected through a careful examination of the APOGEE2 DR16 sample, being compound of at least one exemplar of each Wolf–Rayet star from WN4 to WN11 types. Besides the APOGEE2 WN sample, we also identified three new Galactic exemplars of the WN type. The first is WR 147–1, a narrow-lined Wolf–Rayet star of the WN4-5 type located in the direction of the Cygnus-X North complex. The two remaining objects, WR 48–11 and WR 48–12, are found at projected angular distances of several arcminutes southwest from the Danks 1 cluster. WR 48–12 has an estimated heliocentric distance of kpc, which is not compatible (within the quoted uncertainties) with that of about 3.8 ± 0.6 kpc for the G305 complex. On the other hand, WR 48–11 has a probable heliocentric distance of kpc, which is about three times that of the former, implying that it is probably placed well behind the G305 complex, perhaps at the outermost portion of the Perseus arm.
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Arriagada, Pamela; Minniti, Dante; Butler, R. Paul; Lopez-Morales, Mercedes; Boss, Alan P.; Chambers, John E.; Shectman, Stephen A.; Adams, Fred C., E-mail: parriaga@astro.puc.cl2010
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[en] Five new planets orbiting G and K dwarfs have emerged from the Magellan velocity survey. These companions are Jovian-mass planets in eccentric (e ≥ 0.24) intermediate- and long-period orbits. HD 86226b orbits a solar metallicity G2 dwarf. The MP sin i mass of the planet is 1.5 MJUP, the semimajor axis is 2.6 AU, and the eccentricity is 0.73. HD 129445b orbits a metal-rich G6 dwarf. The minimum mass of the planet is MP sin i = 1.6 MJUP, the semimajor axis is 2.9 AU, and the eccentricity is 0.70. HD 164604b orbits a K2 dwarf. The MP sin i mass is 2.7 MJUP, the semimajor axis is 1.3 AU, and the eccentricity is 0.24. HD 175167b orbits a metal-rich G5 star. The MP sin i mass is 7.8 MJUP, the semimajor axis is 2.4 AU, and the eccentricity is 0.54. HD 152079b orbits a G6 dwarf. The MP sin i mass of the planet is 3 MJUP, the semimajor axis is 3.2 AU, and the eccentricity is 0.60.
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[en] We report low-mass companions orbiting five solar-type stars that have emerged from the Magellan precision Doppler velocity survey, with minimum (Msin i) masses ranging from 1.2 to 25 M JUP. These nearby target stars range from mildly metal-poor to metal-rich, and appear to have low chromospheric activity. The companions to the brightest two of these stars have previously been reported from the CORALIE survey. Four of these companions (HD 48265-b, HD 143361-b, HD 28185-b, and HD 111232-b) are low-mass Jupiter-like planets in eccentric intermediate- and long-period orbits. On the other hand, the companion to HD 43848 appears to be a long-period brown dwarf in a very eccentric orbit.
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Arriagada, Pamela; Minniti, Dante; Anglada-Escudé, Guillem; Butler, R. Paul; Crane, Jeffrey D.; Shectman, Stephen A.; Thompson, Ian; Wende, Sebastian, E-mail: parriaga@astro.puc.cl2013
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[en] We report two low-mass companions orbiting the nearby K7 dwarf GJ 221 that have emerged from reanalyzing 4.4 yr of publicly available HARPS spectra complemented with 2 years of high-precision Doppler measurements with Magellan/PFS. The HARPS measurements alone contain the clear signal of a low-mass companion with a period of 125 days and a minimum mass of 53.2 M⊕ (GJ 221b), falling in a mass range where very few planet candidates have been found (sub-Saturn desert). The addition of 17 PFS observations allows the confident detection of a second low-mass companion (6.5 M⊕) in a hot orbit (3.87 day period, GJ 221c). Spectroscopic and photometric calibrations suggest that GJ 221 is slightly depleted ([Fe/H] ∼ –0.1) compared to the Sun, so the presence of two low-mass companions in the system confirms the trend that slightly reduced stellar metallicity does not prevent the formation of planets in the super-Earth to sub-Saturn mass regime.
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