VVV study of the young Milky Way star clusters: Mercer 35, 69 and 70

Radostin Kurtev; Jura Borissova; Charles Bonatto; Francisco Peñaloza; Valentin Ivanov; Étienne Artigau; Stuart Folkes; Douglas Geisler; Dante Minniti; Philip Lucas; Stuart Sale

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-22113-2-16

VVV study of the young Milky Way star clusters: Mercer 35, 69 and 70

Radostin Kurtev, Jura Borissova, Charles Bonatto, Francisco Peñaloza, Valentin Ivanov, Étienne Artigau, Stuart Folkes, Douglas Geisler, Dante Minniti, Philip Lucas, Stuart Sale

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Young massive clusters are usually deeply embedded in dust and gas. They represent excellent astrophysical laboratories for revealing the enigma of star formation processes and the early stages of stellar evolution. Wide-field infrared surveys are a modern tool for studying hidden clusters. "Vista variables in Vía Láctea - VVV" (Minniti et al. New Astron. 15:433, 2010) is an ESO/Chile/VISTA public deep near-IR survey, covering the Galactic Bulge and Southern Galactic disk. This is the next step of our systematic study of the cluster content of the inner Milky Way. Here we present our first analysis of the young hidden clusters Mercer 35, 69 and 70. It is based on VVV and SOFI/NTT JHKS photometry and follow-up NIR spectroscopy. All of the investigated clusters are young (t≤10 Myr). The basic cluster parameters are obtained from photometry. The follow-up spectroscopy of probable cluster members shows that the brightest star in Mercer 35 presents characteristics of a red supergiant!

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Título de la publicación alojada	Star Clusters in the Era of Large Surveys - Proceedings of Symposium 5 of JENAM 2010
Editorial	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Páginas	109-111
Número de páginas	3
ISBN (versión impresa)	9783642221125
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22113-2-16
Estado	Publicada - 2012
Evento	5th JENAM Symposium: Star Clusters in the Era of Large Surveys, JENAM 2010 - Lisbon, Portugal Duración: 9 sep. 2010 → 10 sep. 2010

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País/Territorio	Portugal
Ciudad	Lisbon
Período	9/09/10 → 10/09/10

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Kurtev, R., Borissova, J., Bonatto, C., Peñaloza, F., Ivanov, V., Artigau, É., Folkes, S., Geisler, D., Minniti, D., Lucas, P., & Sale, S. (2012). VVV study of the young Milky Way star clusters: Mercer 35, 69 and 70. En Star Clusters in the Era of Large Surveys - Proceedings of Symposium 5 of JENAM 2010 (pp. 109-111). Kluwer Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22113-2-16

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Star Clusters in the Era of Large Surveys - Proceedings of Symposium 5 of JENAM 2010. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2012. p. 109-111.

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VVV study of the young Milky Way star clusters: Mercer 35, 69 and 70

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