https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201715201025
Variable stars around selected open clusters in the VVV area: Young Stellar Objects
1 Instituto de Física y Astronomía, Universidad de Valparaíso, Av. Gran Bretaña 1111, Playa Ancha, Casilla 5030, Chile
2 Millennium Institute of Astrophysics, Santiago, Chile
3 Centre for Astrophysics Research, Science and Technology Research Institute, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield AL10 9AB, UK
Published online: 8 September 2017
Time-varying phenomena are one of the most substantial sources of astrophysical information, and led to many fundamental discoveries in modern astronomy. We have developed an automated tool to search and analyze variable sources in the near infrared Ks band, using the data from the Vista Variables in the Vía Láctea (VVV) ESO Public Survey ([5, 8]). One of our main goals is to investigate the Young Stellar Objects (YSOs) in the Galactic star forming regions, looking for:
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Variability.
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New pre-main sequence star clusters.
Here we present the newly discovered YSOs within some selected stellar clusters in our Galaxy.
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