Impossible Survivors: New Star Cluster Candidates in the Galactic Bulge

D. MINNITI; M. GÓMEZ; J.B. PULLEN; T. PALMA; J.J. CLARIÁ; J. ALONSO-GARCIA; R.K. SAITO; L. SMITH; J.G. FERNÁNDEZ-TRINCADO; M. HEMPEL

Research Notes of AAS

IOP SCIENCE

Año: 2020 vol. 4

2515-5172

e have extended our search for globular cluster (GC) candidates into the central regions of the Milky Way (MW),using the VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea survey (VVV, Minniti et al. 2010), and its extension the VVVX survey,supplemented with data from 2MASS (Skrutskie et al. 2006) and Gaia DR2 (The Gaia Collaboration 2018).While we follow the selection procedures described by Minniti et al. (2017abc, 2019a), we have also includedin this search smaller (arcminute size) objects.