Reddening and metallicity maps of the Milky Way bulge from VVV and 2MASS

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O. A. González · European Southern Observatory

M. Rejkuba · European Southern Observatory

M. Zoccali · Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

E. Valenti · European Southern Observatory

D. Minniti · Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

M. Schultheis · Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Rodrigo Tobar

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Context. The Milky Way bulge is the nearest galactic bulge and the most readily accessible laboratory for studies of stellar populations in spheroids based on individual stellar abundances and kinematics. These studies are challenged by the strongly variable and often large extinction on a small spatial scale.

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Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae Astronomy and Astrophysical Research

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Published in: Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volume 543, pp. A13-A13

DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201219222

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Reddening and metallicity maps of the Milky Way bulge from VVV and 2MASS

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