ATLAS: a high-cadence all-sky survey system

JL Tonry, L Denneau, AN Heinze… - Publications of the …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Technology has advanced to the point that it is possible to image the entire sky every night
and process the data in real time. The sky is hardly static: many interesting phenomena …

A first catalog of variable stars measured by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS)

AN Heinze, JL Tonry, L Denneau… - The Astronomical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) carries out its primary
planetary defense mission by surveying about 13,000 deg 2 at least four times per night. The …

The ATLAS all-sky stellar reference catalog

JL Tonry, L Denneau, H Flewelling… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) observes most of the sky
every night in search of dangerous asteroids. Its data are also used to search for photometric …

Two stellar-mass black holes in the globular cluster M22

J Strader, L Chomiuk, TJ Maccarone, JCA Miller-Jones… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Hundreds of stellar-mass black holes probably form in a typical globular star cluster, with all
but one predicted to be ejected through dynamical interactions,,. Some observational …

Interstellar extinction curve variations towards the inner Milky Way: a challenge to observational cosmology

DM Nataf, OA Gonzalez, L Casagrande… - Monthly Notices of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We investigate interstellar extinction curve variations towards∼ 4 deg2 of the inner Milky
Way in VIJKs photometry from the OGLE-III (third phase of the Optical Gravitational Lensing …

The Fourth S-PLUS Data Release: 12-filter photometry covering~ 3000 square degrees in the southern hemisphere

FR Herpich, F Almeida-Fernandes… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
Context. The Southern Photometric Local Universe Survey (S-PLUS) is a project to map~
9300 sq deg of the sky using twelve bands (seven narrow and five broadbands) …

Stellar density profile and mass of the Milky Way bulge from VVV data

E Valenti, M Zoccali, OA Gonzalez, D Minniti… - Astronomy & …, 2016 - aanda.org
We present the first stellar density profile of the Milky Way bulge that reaches latitude b= 0°.
The profile was derived by counting red clump stars within the colour-magnitude diagram …

Variable star classification across the Galactic bulge and disc with the VISTA Variables in the Vía Láctea survey

TA Molnar, JL Sanders, LC Smith… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We present VIVACE, the VIrac VAriable Classification Ensemble, a catalogue of variable
stars extracted from an automated classification pipeline for the Vista Variables in the Vía …

The global mass functions of 35 Galactic globular clusters: I. Observational data and correlations with cluster parameters

A Sollima, H Baumgardt - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
We have derived the global mass functions of a sample of 35 Galactic globular clusters
(GCs) by comparing deep Hubble Space Telescope photometry from the globular clusters …

Milky Way demographics with the VVV survey-IV. PSF photometry from almost one billion stars in the Galactic bulge and adjacent southern disk

J Alonso-García, RK Saito, M Hempel, D Minniti… - Astronomy & …, 2018 - aanda.org
Context. The inner regions of the Galaxy are severely affected by extinction, which limits our
capability to study the stellar populations present there. The Vista Variables in the Vía …