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2016A&A...588A..40R - Astronomy and Astrophysics, volume 588A40-40 (2016/4-1)

Massive open star clusters using the VVV survey.

RAMIREZ ALEGRIA S., BORISSOVA J., CHENE A.-N., BONATTO C., KURTEV R., AMIGO P., KUHN M., GROMADZKI M. and CARBALLO-BELLO J.A.

Abstract (from CDS):

Context. The ESO public survey VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) has contributed with deep multi-epoch photometry of the Galactic bulge and the adjacent part of the disk over 526 sq. deg. More than a hundred cluster candidates have been reported thanks to this survey.
Aims. We present the fifth article in a series of papers focused on young and massive clusters discovered in the VVV survey. In this paper, we present the physical characterization of five clusters with a spectroscopically confirmed OB-type stellar population.
Methods. To characterize the clusters, we used near-infrared photometry (J, H, and Ks) from the VVV survey and near-infrared K-band spectroscopy from ISAAC at VLT, following the methodology presented in the previous articles of the series.
Results. All clusters in our sample are very young (ages between 1-20Myr), and their total mass are between (1.07+0.40-0.30)x102M☉ and (4.17+4.15–2.08)x103M☉. We observed a relation between the clusters total mass Mecl and the mass of their most massive stellar member mmax, for clusters with an age <10Myr.

Abstract Copyright: © ESO, 2016

Journal keyword(s): stars: early-type - stars: massive - techniques: photometric - techniques: spectroscopic - Galaxy: disk - open clusters and associations: general

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