@article{9863fa927e8540e7be3e39e104b84072,
title = "Near-infrared photometry and spectroscopy of the low Galactic latitude globular cluster 2MASS-GC 03",
abstract = "We present deep near-infrared photometry and spectroscopy of the globular cluster 2MASSGC 03 projected in the Galactic disc using MMT and Magellan Infrared Spectrograph on the Clay Telescope (Las Campanas Observatory) and VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea Survey data. Most probable cluster member candidates were identified from near-infrared photometry. Out of 10 candidates that were followed-up spectroscopically, 5 have properties of cluster members, from which we calculate 〈[Fe/H]〉= - 0.9 ± 0.2 and a radial velocity of 〈vr〉 = - 78 ± 12 km s-1. A distance of 10.8 kpc is estimated from three likely RR Lyrae members. Given that the cluster is currently at a distance of 4.2 kpc from the Galactic Centre, the cluster's long survival time of an estimated 11.3 ± 1.2 Gyr strengthens the case for its globular-cluster nature. The cluster has a hint of elongation in the direction of the Galactic Centre.",
keywords = "Globular clusters, Individual",
author = "Carballo-Bello, {Julio A.} and Alegr{\'i}a, {S. Ram{\'i}rez} and J. Borissova and Smith, {L. C.} and R. Kurtev and Lucas, {P. W.} and {Moni Bidin}, Ch and J. Alonso-Garc{\'i}a and D. Minniti and T. Palma and I. D{\'e}k{\'a}ny and N. Medina and M. Moyano and V. Villanueva and Kuhn, {M. A.}",
note = "Funding Information: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: This paper includes data gathered with the 6.5 metreMagellan Telescopes located at Las Campanas Observatory, Chile (program ID: CN2014A-84). JAC-B received support from CONICYT Gemini grant from the Programa de Astronom?a del DRI Folio 32130012 and CONICYT-Chile grants FONDECYT Postdoctoral Fellowship 3160502. SRA and CMB were supported by the Fondecyt project number 3140605 and 1150060, respectively. JA-G acknowledges support from the FIC-R Fund, allocated to project 30321072, and from Fondecyt Iniciaci?n 11150916. NM is supported by CONICYT REDES No. 140042 project. 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 the Ministry for the Economy, Development, and Tourism's Programa Inicativa Cient?fica Milenio through grant IC120009, awarded to The Millennium Institute of Astrophysics (MAS). Partially based on data products from observations made with ESO Telescopes at the La Silla or Paranal Observatories under ESO programme ID 179.B-2002. This publication makes use of data products from the 2MASS, which is a joint project of the University of Massachusetts and the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center/California Institute of Technology, funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Science Foundation. This research has made use of the WEBDA database, operated at the Department of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics of the Masaryk University. Thanks to K. Pe?a-Ram?rez and J. M. Corral-Santana for their help during the spectra reduction. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 The Authors.",
year = "2016",
month = oct,
day = "11",
doi = "10.1093/mnras/stw1674",
language = "English",
volume = "462",
pages = "501--510",
journal = "Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society",
issn = "0035-8711",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
number = "1",
}