Publications (263)
An Updated Census of RR~Lyrae Stars in the Globular Cluster $Ï$~Centauri (NGC\,5139)
C. Navarrete, R. Contreras Ramos, M. Catelan +7
Discovery of a Pair of Classical Cepheids in an Invisible Cluster Beyond the Galactic Bulge
I. Dékány, D. Minniti, G. Hajdu +6
Temperature constraints on the coldest brown dwarf known WISE 0855-0714
J. C. BeamÃn, V. D. Ivanov, A. Bayo +10
ZEN and the search for high-redshift galaxies
J. P. Willis, F. Courbin, J-P. Kneib +1
ROPS: A New Search for Habitable Earths in the Southern Sky
J. R. Barnes, J. S. Jenkins, H. R. A. Jones +7
The MACHO Project Large Magellanic Cloud Variable Star Inventory. VIII. The Recent Star Formation History of the LMC from the Cepheid Period Distribution
C. Alcock, R. A. Allsman, D. R. Alves +20
Strengthening the Open Cluster Distance Scale via VVV Photometry
Daniel J. Majaess, David G. Turner, C. Moni Bidin +14
Galactic Bulge Population II Cepheids in the VVV Survey: Period-Luminosity Relations and a Distance to the Galactic Center
A. Bhardwaj, M. Rejkuba, D. Minniti +7
Unveiling the nature of INTEGRAL objects through optical spectroscopy. V. Identification and properties of 21 southern hard X-ray sources
N. Masetti, L. Morelli, E. Palazzi +13
MOONS: a Multi-Object Optical and Near-infrared Spectrograph for the VLT
M. Cirasuolo, J. Afonso, R. Bender +77
Unveiling the nature of INTEGRAL objects through optical spectroscopy. VII. Identification of 20 Galactic and extragalactic hard X-ray sources
N. Masetti, P. Parisi, E. Palazzi +17
The MACHO Project Large Magellanic Cloud variable star inventory. XI. Frequency analysis of the fundamental mode RR Lyrae stars
C. Alcock, D. R. Alves, A. Becker +20
Establishing the Galactic Centre Distance Using VVV Bulge RR Lyrae Variables
D. Majaess, I. Dékány, G. Hajdu +3
Three dimensional interstellar extinction map towards the Galactic Bulge
B. Q. Chen, M. Schultheis, B. W. Jiang +4
Deep optical observations of the fields of two nearby millisecond pulsars with the VLT
F. K. Sutaria, A. Ray, A. Reisenegger +3
The Araucaria Project. The Distance to the Sculptor Galaxy NGC 247 from Near-Infrared Photometry of Cepheid Variables
W. Gieren, G. Pietrzynski, I. Soszynski +7
VLT LBG Redshift Survey II: Interactions between galaxies and the IGM at z ~3
N. H. M. Crighton, R. Bielby, T. Shanks +15
New Galactic Star Clusters Discovered in the Disk Area of the VVVX Survey
J. Borissova, V. D. Ivanov, P. W. Lucas +8
Precision radial velocities of 15 M5 - M9 dwarfs
J. R. Barnes, J. S. Jenkins, H. R. A. Jones +8
Investigating the population of Galactic star formation regions and star clusters within a Wide-Fast-Deep Coverage of the Galactic Plane
L. Prisinzano, L. Magrini, F. Damiani +32
Discovery of new Milky Way star cluster candidates in the 2MASS point source catalog III. Follow-up observations of cluster candidates in the Galactic Center region
J. Borissova, V. D. Ivanov, D. Minniti +2
Near-IR trigonometric parallaxes of nearby stars in the Galactic plane using the VVV
J. C. Beamin, R. A. Mendez, R. L. Smart +7
High-resolution abundance analysis of red giants in the globular cluster NGC 6522
B. Barbuy, C. Chiappini, E. Cantelli +11
Mapping the release of volatiles in the inner comae of comets C/2012 F6 (Lemmon) and C/2012 S1 (ISON) using the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array
M. A. Cordiner, A. J. Remijan, J. Boissier +13
Is the LMC Microlensing Due to an Intervening Dwarf Galaxy?
The MACHO Collaboration, C. Alcock, R. A. Allsman +20
Long-term Stellar Variability in the Galactic Centre Region
C. Navarro Molina, J. Borissova, M. Catelan +5
On-axis spatially resolved spectroscopy of low redshift quasar host galaxies: HE 1503+0228 at z=0.135
F. Courbin, G. Letawe, P. Magain +8
Accurate classification of 28 objects detected in the 39 months Palermo Swift/BAT hard X-ray catalogue
P. Parisi, N. Masetti, E. Jiménez-Bailón +12
The VVV Survey reveals classical Cepheids tracing a young and thin stellar disk across the Galaxy's bulge
I. Dékány, D. Minniti, D. Majaess +6
Characterization of the Nearby L/T Binary Brown Dwarf WISE J104915.57-531906.1 at 2 Parsecs from the Sun
A. Y. Kniazev, P. Vaisanen, K. Muzic +22
Blue Dots Team Transits Working Group Review
A. Sozzetti, C. Afonso, R. Alonso +9
VLT-FLAMES Analysis of 8 giants in the Bulge Metal-poor Globular Cluster NGC 6522: Oldest Cluster in the Galaxy?
B. Barbuy, M. Zoccali, S. Ortolani +5
Galactic Doppelganger: The chemical similarity among field stars and among stars with a common birth origin
M. Ness, H-W. Rix, David W. Hogg +9
The nature of fifty Palermo Swift-BAT hard X-ray objects through optical spectroscopy
A. F. Rojas, N. Masetti, D. Minniti +16
A ground-based Ks-band detection of the thermal emission from the transiting exoplanet WASP-4b
C. Caceres, V. D. Ivanov, D. Minniti +6
Discovery of new Milky Way star cluster candidates in the 2MASS point source catalog. V. Follow-up observations of the young stellar cluster candidates RCW87, [BDSB2003]164 and [DBSB2003]172
J. Borissova, V. D. Ivanov, D. Minniti +1
VLT-UVES abundance analysis of four giants in NGC 6553
A. Alves-Brito, B. Barbuy, M. Zoccali +9
The MACHO Project LMC Variable Star Inventory. IX. Frequency Analysis of the First Overtone RR Lyrae Stars and the Indication for Nonradial Pulsations
C. Alcock, R. Allsman, D. R. Alves +26
Constraining Dust Extinction Properties via the VVV Survey
D. Majaess, D. Turner, I. Dekany +2
The Araucaria Project. An improved distance to the Sculptor spiral galaxy NGC 300 from its Cepheid variables
W. Gieren, G. Pietrzynski, A. Walker +8
The Metal Content of the Bulge Globular Cluster NGC 6528
M. Zoccali, B. Barbuy, V. Hill +7
The GIRAFFE Inner Bulge Survey (GIBS) III. Metallicity distributions and kinematics of 26 Galactic bulge fields
M. Zoccali, S. Vasquez, O. A. Gonzalez +9
Near-infrared photometry of WISE J085510.74$-$071442.5
M. R. Zapatero Osorio, N. Lodieu, V. J. S. Béjar +7
New galactic star clusters discovered in the VVV survey. Candidates projected on the inner disk and bulge
J. Borissova, A. -N. Chené, S. RamÃrez AlegrÃa +21
Characterisation of extrasolar planetary transit candidates
J. Gallardo, D. Minniti, D. Valls-Gabaud +1
High Amplitude δ-Scutis in the Large Magellanic Cloud
A. Garg, K. H. Cook, S. Nikolaev +13
Stellar Ages through the Corners of the Boxy Bulge
E. Valenti, M. Zoccali, A. Renzini +5
3D kinematics through the X-shaped Milky Way bulge
S. Vásquez, M. Zoccali, V. Hill +10
Pulsating Variable Stars in the MACHO Bulge database: The Semiregular Variables
D. Minniti, C. Alcock, R. A. Allsman +17
The Araucaria Project. An Accurate Distance to the Local Group Galaxy NGC 6822 from Near-Infrared Photometry of Cepheid Variables
W. Gieren, G. Pietrzynski, K. Nalewajko +5
RR Lyrae Stars in the MACHO Database
The MACHO Collaboration, D. Minniti, C. Alcock +18
Calibration of the MACHO Photometry Database
C. Alcock, R. A. Allsman, D. R. Alves +18
Oxygen, Sodium, Magnesium and Aluminium as tracers of the Galactic Bulge Formation
A. Lecureur, V. Hill, M. Zoccali +5
A Hot Saturn Planet Orbiting HD 88133, from the N2K Consortium
D. A. Fischer, G. Laughlin, R. P. Butler +20
Pushing the Boundaries of Conventional Core-Collapse Supernovae: The Extremely Energetic Supernova SN 2003ma
A. Rest, R. J. Foley, S. Gezari +34
Chemical Abundances of Planetary Nebulae in the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy
J. R. Walsh, G. Dudziak, D. Minniti +1
Discovery and Characterization of a Caustic Crossing Microlensing Event in the SMC
C. Alcock, R. A. Allsman, D. Alves +21
Cepheids in the LMC: Results from the MACHO Project
The MACHO Collaboration, D. L. Welch, C. Alcock +19
ZEN2: A narrow J-band search for z~9 Lya emitting galaxies directed towards three lensing clusters
J. P. Willis, F. Courbin, J. P. Kneib +1
Identification of newly-discovered sources belonging to the 4th IBIS catalog and to the 54 months Palermo Swift/BAT catalog
P. Parisi, N. Masetti, A. F. Rojas +17
Proper Motions of Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies from Hubble Space Telescope Imaging. I: Method and a Preliminary Measurement for Fornax
S. Piatek, C. Pryor, E. W. Olszewski +6
Milky Way demographics with the VVV Survey III. Evidence for a Great Dark Lane in the 157 Million Star Bulge Color-Magnitude Diagram
D. Minniti, R. K. Saito, O. A. Gonzalez +10
Reddening and metallicity maps of the Milky Way bulge from VVV and 2MASS II. The complete high resolution extinction map and implications for Bulge studies
O. A. Gonzalez, M. Rejkuba, M. Zoccali +5
Proper Motions of Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies from Hubble Space Telescope Imaging. III: Measurement for Ursa Minor
S. Piatek, C. Pryor, P. Bristow +5
TraMoS IV: Discarding the Quick Orbital Decay Hypothesis for OGLE-TR-113b
S. Hoyer, M. López-Morales, P. Rojo +2
Li-rich RGB stars in the Galactic Bulge
O. A. Gonzalez, M. Zoccali, L. Monaco +7
The N2K Consortium. II. A Transiting Hot Saturn Around HD 149026 With a Large Dense Core
B. Sato, D. A. Fischer, G. W. Henry +18
Microlensing Optical Depth towards the Galactic Bulge Using Clump Giants from the MACHO Survey
P. Popowski, K. Griest, C. L. Thomas +20
The MACHO project: Microlensing Optical Depth towards the Galactic Bulge from Difference Image Analysis
C. Alcock, R. A. Allsman, D. R. Alves +21
MACHO 96-LMC-2: Lensing of a Binary Source in the LMC and Constraints on the Lensing Object
C. Alcock, R. A. Allsman, D. R. Alves +21
The Zero Point of Extinction Toward Baade's Window From RR Lyrae Stars
C. Alcock, R. A. Allsman, D. R. Alves +20
Bulge delta Scuti Stars in the MACHO Database
The MACHO Collaboration, C. Alcock, R. A. Allsman +20
Accurate dynamical mass determination of a classical Cepheid in an eclipsing binary system
G. Pietrzynski, I. B. Thompson, W. Gieren +5
The young Galactic star cluster [DBS2003]179
J. Borissova, V. D. Ivanov, M. M. Hanson +4
The MACHO Project Hubble Space Telescope Follow-Up: Preliminary Results on the Location of the Large Magellanic Cloud Microlensing Source Stars
C. Alcock, R. A. Allsman, D. R. Alves +21
The first confirmed microlens in a globular cluster
P. Pietrukowicz, D. Minniti, Ph. Jetzer +2
Difference Image Analysis of Galactic Microlensing II. Microlensing Events
C. Alcock, R. A. Allsman, D. Alves +18
On the RR Lyrae stars in globulars: V. the complete Near-Infrared (JHKs) census of omega Centauri RR Lyrae variables
V. F. Braga, P. B. Stetson, G. Bono +35
Millimagnitude Photometry for Transiting Extrasolar Planetary Candidates. V. Follow-up of 30 OGLE Transits. New Candidates
P. Pietrukowicz, D. Minniti, R. F. Diaz +8
The SuperMACHO Microlensing Survey
A. C. Becker, A. Rest, C. Stubbs +18
The nature of 19 X-ray sources detected with INTEGRAL
N. Masetti, P. Parisi, E. Jimenez-Bailon +14
Chemical abundances for 11 bulge stars from high-resolution, near-IR spectra
N. Ryde, B. Gustafsson, B. Edvardsson +10
The MACHO Project LMC Variable Star Inventory: X. The R Coronae Borealis Stars
C. Alcock, R. A. Allsman, D. R. Alves +26
Manganese abundances in Galactic bulge red giants
B. Barbuy, V. Hill, M. Zoccali +6
The MACHO Project: Microlensing Detection Efficiency
The MACHO collaboration, C. Alcock, R. A. Allsman +22
The Blazhko Effect in RR Lyrae stars: Strong observational support for the oblique pulsator model in three stars
The MACHO Collaboration, C. Alcock, D. R. Alves +17
Are the hosts of Gamma-Ray Bursts sub-luminous and blue galaxies?
E. Le Floc'h, P. -A. Duc, I. F. Mirabel +11
Unveiling the nature of INTEGRAL objects through optical spectroscopy. VIII. Identification of 44 newly detected hard X-ray sources
N. Masetti, P. Parisi, E. Palazzi +17
Proper motions and brown dwarfs with the VVV survey
J. C. BeamÃn, V. D. Valentin, R. Kurtev +3
Variability and stellar populations with deep optical-IR images of the Milky Way disk: matching VVV with VLT/VIMOS data
P. Pietrukowicz, D. Minniti, J. Alonso-Garcia +1
The inner Galactic bar traced by the VVV survey
O. A. Gonzalez, M. Rejkuba, D. Minniti +3
Massive open star clusters using the VVV survey III: A young massive cluster at the far edge of the Galactic bar
S. RamÃrez AlegrÃa, J. Borissova, A. N. Chené +14
Reddening and metallicity maps of the Milky Way Bulge from VVV and 2MASS. I.The method and minor axis maps
O. A. Gonzalez, M. Rejkuba, M. Zoccali +2
The EXPLORE Project: A Deep Search for Transiting Extra-Solar Planets
H. K. C. Yee, G. Mallen-Ornelas, S. Seager +5
Unveiling the nature of INTEGRAL objects through optical spectroscopy. X. A new multi-year, multi-observatory campaign
N. Masetti, P. Parisi, E. Palazzi +18
The Vista Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) ESO Public Survey: Current Status and First Results
M. Catelan, D. Minniti, P. W. Lucas +29
A Binary Lensing Event Toward the LMC: Observations and Dark Matter Implications
D. P. Bennett, C. Alcock, R. A. Allsman +18
New Planetary Systems from the Calan-Hertfordshire Extrasolar Planet Search
J. S. Jenkins, H. R. A. Jones, M. Tuomi +22
Mapping the Milky Way bulge at high resolution: the 3D dust extinction, CO, and X factor maps
M. Schultheis, B. Q. Chen, B. W. Jiang +6
A population of eruptive variable protostars in VVV
C. Contreras Peña, P. W. Lucas, D. Minniti +10