{"paper":{"title":"FSR 1716: A new Milky Way Globular Cluster confirmed using VVV RR Lyrae stars","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":["astro-ph.SR"],"primary_cat":"astro-ph.GA","authors_text":"Andre Nicolas Chene, Anne S.M. Buckner, Beatriz Barbuy, Bruno Dias, Camila Navarrete, Charles Bonatto, Christian Moni-Bidin, Daniel Majaess, Dante Minniti, Dirk Froebrich, Douglas Geisler, Eduardo Bica, Elena Valenti, Felipe Gran, Francesco Mauro, Gergely Hagdu, Istvan D\\'ek\\'any, Javier Alonso-Garc\\'ia, Jim Emerson, Joyce Pullen, Juan J. Clari\\'a, Julio A. Carballo-Bello, Jura Borissova, Manuela Zoccali, Marcio Catelan, Maren Hempel, Marina Rejkuba, Mike Irwin, Oscar A. Gonzalez, Philip W. Lucas, Radostin Kurtev, Roberto K. Saito, Rodolfo Barb\\'a, Rodrigo Contreras-Ramos, Roger E. Cohen, Sebastian Ram\\'irez Alegr\\'ia, Tali Palma, Valentin D. Ivanov","submitted_at":"2017-03-06T02:09:48Z","abstract_excerpt":"We use deep multi-epoch near-IR images of the VISTA Variables in the V\\'ia L\\'actea (VVV) Survey to search for RR Lyrae stars towards the Southern Galactic plane. Here we report the discovery of a group of RR Lyrae stars close together in VVV tile d025. Inspection of the VVV images and PSF photometry reveals that most of these stars are likely to belong to a globular cluster, that matches the position of the previously known star cluster FSR\\,1716. The stellar density map of the field yields a $>100$ sigma detection for this candidate globular cluster, that is centered at equatorial coordinate"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1703.02033","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}