Massive open star clusters using the VVV survey: II. Discovery of six clusters with Wolf-Rayet stars

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Chené, A.-N. [1 ,2 ]
Borissova, J. [1 ,3 ]
Bonatto, C. [4 ]
Majaess, D.J. [5 ]
Baume, G. [6 ]
Clarke, J.R.A. [1 ,3 ,7 ]
Kurtev, R. [1 ]
Schnurr, O. [8 ]
Bouret, J.-C. [9 ]
Catelan, M. [3 ,10 ]
Emerson, J.P. [11 ]
Feinstein, C. [6 ]
Geisler, D. [2 ]
De Grijs, R. [12 ]
Hervé, A. [13 ]
Ivanov, V.D. [14 ]
Kumar, M.S.N. [15 ]
Lucas, P. [7 ]
Mahy, L. [13 ]
Martins, F. [16 ]
Mauro, F. [2 ]
Minniti, D. [3 ,10 ,17 ,18 ]
Moni Bidin, C. [2 ,3 ]
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[1] Departamento de Física y Astronomía, Universidad de Valparaíso N, Av. Gran Bretaña 1111, Playa Ancha, 5030 Casilla, Chile
[2] Departamento de Astronomía, Universidad de Concepción, Casilla 160, Chile
[3] Milky Way Millennium Nucleus, Av. Vicuña Mackenna 4860, 782-0436 Macul, Santiago, Chile
[4] Universidade Federal Do Rio Grande Do sul, Departamento de Astronomia, CP 15051, RS, 91501-970 Porto Alegre, Brazil
[5] Saint Mary's University, Halifax, NS, Canada
[6] Facultad de Ciencias Astronómicas y Geofísicas (UNLP), Instituto de Astrofísica de la Plata (CONICET, UNLP), Paseo del Bosque s/n, La Plata, Argentina
[7] University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, AL10 9AB, United Kingdom
[8] Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP), An der Sternwarte 16, 14482 Potsdam, Germany
[9] Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille-LAM, Université d'Aix-Marseille, CNRS, UMR 7326, 38 rue F. Joliot-Curie, 13388 Marseille Cedex 13, France
[10] Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Facultad de Física, Departamento de Astronomía y Astrofísica, Av. Vicuña Mackenna 4860, 782-0436 Macul, Santiago, Chile
[11] School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, United Kingdom
[12] Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Peking University, Yi He Yuan Lu 5, Hai Dian District, 100871 Beijing, China
[13] Groupe d'Astrophysique des Hautes Énergies, Institut d'Astrophysique et de Géophysique, Université de Liège, Allée du 6 Août, 4000 Liège, Belgium
[14] European Southern Observatory, Ave. Alonso de Cordova 3107, Casilla 19, Chile
[15] Centro de Astrofisica, Universidade Do Porto, Rua das Estrelas, 4150-762 Porto, Portugal
[16] LUPM-UMR 5299, CNRS, Université Montpellier II, Place Eugène Bataillon, 34095, Montpellier Cedex 05, France
[17] Vatican Observatory, V 00120 Vatican City State, Italy
[18] Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton NJ 08544-1001, United States
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We would like to warmly thank Ignacio Toledo; Roberto Gamen and the VVV science team for the helping to improve the images in Fig. 1. We also thank the anonymous referee for his help in improving this work. This project is supported by the Chilean Ministry for the Economy; Development; and Tourism’s Programa Iniciativa Científica Milenio through grant P07-021-F; awarded to The Milky Way Millennium Nucleus. A.N.C; D.G. and D.M. gratefully acknowledge support from the Chilean Centro de Astrofísica FONDAP No. 15010003 and the BASAL Chilean Centro de Excelencia en Astrofísica y Tecnologías Afines (CATA) PFB-06. A.N.C. also acknowledges the Comite Mixto ESO-Gobierno de Chile. J.B. is supported by FONDECYT No. 1120601 and R.K. by the Centro de Astrofísica de Valparaíso and Proyecto DIUV23/2009. Support for M.C. is also provided by Proyecto Fondecyt Regular #1110326; and Anillo ACT-86. R.d.G. acknowledges partial research support through grant 11073001 from the National Natural Science Foundation of China. MSNK is supported by a Ciência 2007 contract; funded by FCT/MCTES (Portugal) and POPH/FSE (EC). The data used in this paper have been obtained with NTT/SofI at ESO’s La Silla Observatory; and with Clay/MMIRS at Las Campanas Observatory. This research has made use of the SIMBAD database; operated at CDS; Strasbourg; France. We gratefully acknowledge use of data from the ESO Public Survey programme ID 179.B-2002 taken with the VISTA telescope; and data products from the Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit;
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