Candidate star clusters toward the inner Milky Way discovered on deep-stacked KS-band images from the VVV Survey

• Published in: Astronomy and astrophysics (Berlin) Vol. 600
• Main Authors: Ivanov, Valentin D., Piatti, Andrés E., Beamín, Juan-Carlos, Minniti, Dante, Borissova, Jordanka, Kurtev, Radostin, Hempel, Maren, Saito, Roberto K.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: EDP Sciences 01.04.2017
• Subjects: galaxies: star clusters: general; globular clusters: general; infrared: general; open clusters and associations: general

Context. The census of star clusters in the inner Milky Way is incomplete because of extinction and crowding. Aims. We embarked on a program to expand the star cluster list in the direction of the inner Milky Way using deep stacks of KS-band images from the VISTA Variables in Via Lactea (VVV) Survey...