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VVV Search for New Young Clusters Towards the Star Forming Regions in Our Galaxy: First Results

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Star Clusters in the Era of Large Surveys

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One of the main goals of the “VVV – Vista Variables in the Via Lactea” ESO Large Survey is to search for new star clusters of different ages. In order to trace the early stages of star clusters formation we carrying out a survey of infrared star cluster candidates and stellar groups in the directions of known massive star formation regions. To date, we have identified 47 candidates. Most of them appear compact (with small angular sizes) and very young.

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JB is supported by FONDECYT No.1080086 and MIDEPLAN ICM Nucleus P07-021-F and received partial support from BASAL CATA PFB-06. The VVV Survey is supported by ESO, by BASAL Center for Astrophysics and Associated Technologies PFB-06, by FONDAP Center for Astrophysics 15010003, and by MIDEPLAN’s Milky Way Millennium Nucleus P07-021-F. DM is supported by FONDECYT No. 1090213.

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  1. Facultad de Ciencias, Departamento de Fisíca y Astronomía, Universidad de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile

    Jura Borissova, Radostin Kurtev, Stuart Folkes, Francisco Penaloza & Stuart Sale

  2. Pontificia Universidad Catolica, Santiago, Chile

    Dante Minniti, Stuart Sale, Márcio Catelan, Maren Hempel, Monica Zoccali, Ignacio Toledo & Andrés Jordán

  3. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

    Eduardo Bica & Charles Bonatto

  4. ESO, Santiago, Chile

    Valentin Ivanov & Andrea Ahumada

  5. Universidad de Concepcion, Concepcion, Chile

    Douglas Geisler & Christian Moni Bidin

  6. Universidad de La Serena, La Serena, Chile

    Rodolfo Barba

  7. Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada

    Étienne Artigau

  8. University of Hertsfordshire, Hatfield, UK

    Philip Lucas

  9. KIAA, Peking University, Peking, China

    Richard de Grijs

  10. Universidad de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina

    Gustavo Baume

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  1. , Fac. de Ciências da Univ. de Lisboa, SIM, Campo Grande, Edifício C8, Lisbon, 1749-016, Portugal

    André Moitinho

  2. Institute of Astronomy, Türkenschanzstrasse 17, Vienna, 1180, Austria

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Borissova, J. et al. (2012). VVV Search for New Young Clusters Towards the Star Forming Regions in Our Galaxy: First Results. In: Moitinho, A., Alves, J. (eds) Star Clusters in the Era of Large Surveys. Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22113-2_14

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