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The VVV Survey reveals classical Cepheids tracing a young and thin stellar disk across the Galaxy's bulge

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I. Dékány, D. Minniti, D. Majaess, M. Zoccali, G. Hajdu, J. Alonso-García, M. Catelan, W. Gieren
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Astrophysics of Galaxies · Submitted 28 Sep 2015

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The authors' main claim New comprehensive near-infrared time-series photometry from the VVV Survey has revealed 35 classical Cepheids, tracing a previously unobserved component of the inner Galaxy, namely a ubiquitous inner thin disk of young stars along the Galactic mid-plane, traversing across the bulge.

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CitationD. Majaess, D. Minniti, G. Hajdu, I. D\'ek\'any, J. Alonso-Garc\'ia, J. Borissova, M. Catelan, M. Zoccali, W. Gieren. "The VVV Survey reveals classical Cepheids tracing a young and thin stellar disk across the Galaxy's bulge." arXiv:1509.08402 (2015). https://pith.science/paper/LXWPZCKF
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Solid insight into the physics of the inner Milky Way is key to understanding our Galaxy's evolution, but extreme dust obscuration has historically hindered efforts to map the area along the Galactic mid-plane. New comprehensive near-infrared time-series photometry from the VVV Survey has revealed 35 classical Cepheids, tracing a previously unobserved component of the inner Galaxy, namely a ubiquitous inner thin disk of young stars along the Galactic mid-plane, traversing across the bulge. The discovered period (age) spread of these classical Cepheids implies a continuous supply of newly formed stars in the central region of the Galaxy over the last 100 million years.

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s2 The discovered period (age) spread of these classical Cepheids implies a continuous supply of newly formed stars in the central region of the Galaxy over the last 100 million years. interpretation 0.99 0.88 0.13 asserted 0.60

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Solid insight into the physics of the inner Milky Way is key to understanding our Galaxy's evolution, but extreme dust obscuration has historically hindered efforts to map the area along the Galactic mid-plane. New comprehensive near-infrared time-series photometry from the VVV Survey has revealed 35 classical Cepheids, tracing a previously unobserved component of the inner Galaxy, namely a ubiquitous inner thin disk of young stars along the Galactic mid-plane, traversing across the bulge. The discovered period (age) spread of these classical Cepheids implies a continuous supply of newly formed stars in the central region of the Galaxy over the last 100 million years.

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  • The data processing, calibration, and light-curve analysis were conducted in the same way as in our previous study on the Twin Cepheids beyond the bulge [ref] , and are based on standard VVV Survey data products [ref] .

    Stellar Variability in the VVV survey · Discovery and Characterisation of the Cepheids · 0.94

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