Variable stars in the Galactic center, as revealed by the VVV Survey

Claudio Navarro Molina; Jura Borissova; Márcio Catelan; Radostin Kurtev; Nicolás Medina

doi:10.1051/epjconf/201715201026

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EPJ Web of Conferences 152, 01026 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201715201026

Variable stars in the Galactic center, as revealed by the VVV Survey

Claudio Navarro Molina¹^,2^*, Jura Borissova¹^,2, Márcio Catelan³^,2, Radostin Kurtev¹^,2 and Nicolás Medina²

¹ Universidad de Valparaíso, Instituto de Física y Astronomía, Av. Gran Bretaña 1111, Playa Ancha, Casilla 5030, Valparaíso, Chile
² Millennium Institute of Astrophysics, Santiago, Chile
³ Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Instituto de Astrofísica, Av. Vicuña Mackenna 4860, 782-0436 Macul, Santiago, Chile

^* claudio.navarro@postgrado.uv.cl

Published online: 8 September 2017

Abstract

A variability search has been performed in the Galactic center, using the nearinfrared images from the Vista Variables in the Vía Láctea (VVV) Survey. Light curves contain 89 epochs in the K_S band. A total of 353 variable stars were found, of which only 47 are already present in the literature.

© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2017

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