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2016MNRAS.462.1180N - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 462, 1180-1191 (2016/October-3)

Variable stars in the Quintuplet stellar cluster with the VVV survey.

NAVARRO MOLINA C., BORISSOVA J., CATELAN M., ALONSO-GARCIA J., KERINS E., KURTEV R., LUCAS P.W., MEDINA N., MINNITI D. and DEKANY I.

Abstract (from CDS):

The Quintuplet cluster is one of the most massive star clusters in the Milky Way, situated very close to the Galactic Centre. We present a new search for variable stars in the vicinity of the cluster, using the five-year data base of the Vista Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) ESO Public Survey in the near-infrared. A total of 7586 objects were identified in the zone around 2 arcmin from the cluster centre, using 55 KS-band epochs. 33 stars show KS-band variability, 24 of them being previously undiscovered. Most of the variable stars found are slow/semiregular variables, long-period variables of the Mira type, and OH/IR stars. In addition, a good number of our candidates show variations in a rather short time-scale. We also propose four young stellar object candidates, which could be cluster members.

Abstract Copyright: © 2016 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society

Journal keyword(s): stars: pre-main-sequence - stars: variables: general - open clusters and associations: individual: Quintuplet - open clusters and associations: individual: Quintuplet

Nomenclature: Table 1: [NBC2016] VCNN (Nos 1-33).

Simbad objects: 38

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