2011A&A...532A.131B

Query : 2011A&A...532A.131B

2011A&A...532A.131B - Astronomy and Astrophysics, volume 532A, 131-131 (2011/8-1)

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., BARBA R., BICA E., BAUME G.L., CATELAN M., CHENE A.N., DIAS B., FOLKES S.L., FROEBRICH D., GEISLER D., DE GRIJS R., HANSON M.M., HEMPEL M., IVANOV V.D., KUMAR M.S.N., LUCAS P., MAURO F., MONI BIDIN C., REJKUBA M., SAITO R.K., TAMURA M. and TOLEDO I.

Abstract (from CDS):

VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea (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. 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. The disk area covered by VVV was visually inspected using the pipeline processed and calibrated KS-band tile images for stellar overdensities. Subsequently, we examined the composite JHKS and ZJKS color images of each candidate. PSF photometry of 15x15 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. 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 5Myr. 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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Journal keyword(s): open clusters and associations: general - stars: early-type - infrared: general

VizieR on-line data: <Available at CDS (J/A+A/532/A131): table1.dat>

Nomenclature: Table 1: VVV CLNNN N=96 among (Nos CL005-CL096).

Simbad objects: 108

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Number of rows : 108
N Identifier Otype ICRS (J2000)
RA 		ICRS (J2000)
DEC 		Mag U Mag B Mag V Mag R Mag I Sp type #ref
1850 - 2024 		#notes
1 NAME SMC G 00 52 38.0 -72 48 01   2.79 2.2     ~ 11146 1
2 NAME LMC G 05 23 34.6 -69 45 22     0.4     ~ 17432 0
3 VVV CL005 Cl* 11 38 59 -63 28.7           ~ 4 0
4 VVV CL006 OpC 11 49 12 -62 12.5           ~ 2 0
5 VVV CL007 Cl* 11 53 51 -64 20.5           ~ 3 0
6 VVV CL008 Cl* 11 55 29 -63 56.4           ~ 2 0
7 VVV CL009 Cl* 11 56 03 -63 19.0           ~ 6 0
8 VVV CL010 Cl* 12 11 47 -61 46.4           ~ 3 0
9 VVV CL011 Cl* 12 12 41 -62 42.5           ~ 6 0
10 [MCM2005b] 30 Cl* 12 14 32.0 -62 58 49           ~ 15 0
11 VVV CL012 Cl* 12 20 14 -62 53.1           ~ 4 0
12 VVV CL013 Cl* 12 28 37 -62 58.4           ~ 3 0
13 VVV CL015 Cl* 12 34 52 -61 40.3           ~ 3 0
14 VVV CL016 OpC 12 35 00 -61 41.7           ~ 4 0
15 VVV CL017 Cl* 12 35 35 -63 02.6           ~ 2 0
16 VVV CL018 Cl* 12 44 40 -62 47.8           ~ 2 0
17 VVV CL019 Cl* 13 07 06 -61 25.1           ~ 2 0
18 VVV CL020 OpC 13 07 36 -61 19.5           ~ 2 0
19 VVV CL021 Cl* 13 11 51 -62 36.9           ~ 5 0
20 [DBS2003] 130 Cl* 13 11 54 -62 47.0           ~ 8 0
21 VVV CL022 Cl* 13 12 36 -62 37.3           ~ 7 0
22 VVV CL023 OpC 13 13 13 -62 33.4           ~ 5 0
23 VVV CL024 Cl* 13 18 45 -62 44.7           ~ 4 0
24 VVV CL025 Cl* 13 31 22 -63 28.5           ~ 2 0
25 VVV CL026 Cl* 13 31 26 -63 27.9           ~ 2 0
26 VVV CL027 OpC 13 32 24 -62 43.6           ~ 3 0
27 VVV CL028 OpC 13 40 23 -61 44.0           ~ 4 0
28 VVV CL029 Cl* 13 41 54 -62 07.6           ~ 2 0
29 VVV CL030 Cl* 13 45 28 -62 14.5           ~ 2 0
30 VVV CL031 Cl* 13 47 20 -62 18.7           ~ 2 0
31 VVV CL032 Cl* 13 50 41 -61 35.2           ~ 3 0
32 VVV CL033 OpC 14 03 27 -61 16.2           ~ 2 0
33 VVV CL034 Cl* 14 04 08 -61 19.9           ~ 2 0
34 VVV CL035 Cl* 14 06 27 -61 29.6           ~ 2 0
35 VVV CL036 OpC 14 09 03 -61 16.0           ~ 7 0
36 VVV CL037 Cl* 14 09 07 -61 24.7           ~ 2 0
37 VVV CL038 Cl* 14 12 44 -61 47.1           ~ 2 0
38 VVV CL039 OpC 14 15 32 -61 41.8           ~ 2 0
39 VVV CL014 OpC 14 19 09 -60 30.8           ~ 2 0
40 VVV CL040 OpC 14 44 22 -59 11.8           ~ 2 0
41 VVV CL041 OpC 14 46 26 -59 23.3           ~ 7 0
42 VVV CL042 Cl* 14 58 48 -60 40.1           ~ 1 0
43 VVV CL043 Cl* 15 02 56 -58 35.9           ~ 2 0
44 VVV CL044 Cl* 15 03 40 -58 35.1           ~ 3 0
45 VVV CL045 OpC 15 03 47 -58 40.2           ~ 2 0
46 VVV CL046 Cl* 15 10 08 -58 17.1           ~ 2 0
47 VVV CL067 OpC 15 10 36 -57 54.7           ~ 2 0
48 VVV CL047 OpC 15 11 52 -59 30.5           ~ 2 0
49 VVV CL048 Cl* 15 14 01 -59 15.2           ~ 2 0
50 VVV CL049 Cl* 15 14 30 -58 11.8           ~ 2 0
51 VVV CL051 OpC 15 20 39 -56 51.6           ~ 2 0
52 VVV CL050 Cl* 15 21 06 -57 57.5           ~ 2 0
53 VVV CL052 Cl* 15 21 44 -56 52.7           ~ 2 0
54 VVV CL053 OpC 15 27 45 -55 48.6           ~ 2 0
55 VVV CL054 Cl* 15 31 36 -56 10.3           ~ 2 0
56 VVV CL055 Cl* 15 43 36 -53 57.9           ~ 3 0
57 VVV CL056 OpC 15 52 38 -54 34.6           ~ 2 0
58 VVV CL057 Cl* 16 02 11 -53 22.6           ~ 2 0
59 VVV CL058 Cl* 16 02 19 -52 55.5           ~ 2 0
60 VVV CL059 Cl* 16 05 52 -50 47.8           ~ 3 0
61 VVV CL060 Cl* 16 11 23 -51 42.8           ~ 2 0
62 VVV CL061 Cl* 16 11 28 -52 01.5           ~ 2 0
63 VVV CL062 Cl* 16 12 08 -51 58.1           ~ 3 0
64 VVV CL063 Cl* 16 12 42 -51 45.1           ~ 5 0
65 VVV CL064 Cl* 16 15 18 -50 56.8           ~ 4 0
66 [MCM2005b] 77 OpC 16 17 27 -50 30.7           ~ 5 0
67 VVV CL065 Cl* 16 17 31 -50 32.5           ~ 3 0
68 VVV CL066 Cl* 16 17 59 -51 15.2           ~ 3 0
69 VVV CL068 Cl* 16 21 28 -50 26.4           ~ 2 0
70 VVV CL069 Cl* 16 21 34 -50 27.5           ~ 2 0
71 VVV CL070 OpC 16 21 48.0 -51 44 11           ~ 4 0
72 VVV CL071 Cl* 16 22 16 -50 04.5           ~ 2 0
73 VVV CL072 OpC 16 23 49 -50 14.3           ~ 2 0
74 VVV CL073 OpC 16 30 24 -48 13.1           ~ 6 0
75 VVV CL074 OpC 16 32 06 -47 49.5           ~ 8 0
76 VVV CL075 Cl* 16 33 30 -48 03.6           ~ 2 0
77 VVV CL076 Cl* 16 33 48 -47 38.8           ~ 2 0
78 VVV CL077 Cl* 16 34 48 -47 32.8           ~ 3 0
79 VVV CL078 Cl* 16 35 09 -48 46.4           ~ 2 0
80 VVV CL079 OpC 16 35 22 -47 28.6           ~ 2 0
81 VVV CL080 Cl* 16 38 56 -47 27.0           ~ 2 0
82 VVV CL081 OpC 16 39 43 -47 07.0           ~ 2 0
83 VVV CL082 Cl* 16 40 39 -48 16.1           ~ 2 0
84 VVV CL083 Cl* 16 41 19 -49 00.7           ~ 1 0
85 VVV CL084 Cl* 16 41 24 -48 56.5           ~ 1 0
86 VVV CL085 OpC 16 45 26 -47 13.0           ~ 2 0
87 Cl Westerlund 1 Cl* 16 47 02.4 -45 51 07           ~ 566 0
88 VVV CL086 OpC 16 48 15 -45 26.1           ~ 9 0
89 VVV CL087 Cl* 16 48 50 -45 09.5           ~ 2 0
90 NAME 2MASS-GC03 GlC 16 52 10.602 -47 03 29.00           ~ 52 0
91 VVV CL088 Cl* 16 52 34 -44 36.1           ~ 3 0
92 VVV CL089 OpC 16 53 47 -43 16.0           ~ 4 0
93 VVV CL090 Cl* 16 54 03 -45 18.9           ~ 2 0
94 VVV CL091 OpC 16 54 39 -45 14.1           ~ 2 0
95 VVV CL092 Cl* 16 54 56 -43 21.8           ~ 2 0
96 VVV CL093 Cl* 16 56 03 -43 04.8           ~ 2 0
97 VVV CL094 Cl* 17 07 54 -40 31.6           ~ 3 0
98 VVV CL095 OpC 17 10 55 -39 41.8           ~ 2 0
99 [DBS2003] 179 OpC 17 11 32.0 -39 10 38           ~ 39 0
100 VVV CL096 Cl* 17 11 41 -41 19.1           ~ 2 0
101 VVV CL097 Cl* 17 11 46 -41 18.2           ~ 2 0
102 VVV CL098 Cl* 17 13 06 -38 59.8           ~ 2 0
103 VVV CL099 OpC 17 14 26 -38 09.9           ~ 5 0
104 VVV CL100 Cl* 17 19 15 -39 04.6           ~ 3 0
105 NAME Galactic Center reg 17 45 39.60213 -29 00 22.0000           ~ 14414 0
106 [MCM2005b] 3 Cl* 18 18 30 -16 58.5           ~ 3 0
107 NAME Mercer 5 Cl* 18 23 19.800 -13 40 07.00           ~ 23 0
108 Teutsch 42 OpC 19 30 13.1 +18 32 09           ~ 17 0

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