I. Petralia

A newly discovered VVVX star cluster surfing the Galactic disk

We report Garro 04, a previously unidentified stellar cluster toward the Galactic disk, which was discovered as part of the ESO/KMOS VVVX-GalCen Spectroscopic Survey. This object was serendipitously confirmed as a stellar overdensity in the VISTA Variables in the Vía Láctea eXtended (VVVX) survey footprint and subseque...

A newly discovered VVVX star cluster surfing the Galactic disk

The extragalactic science of the KMOS VVVX-GalCen spectroscopic survey II: Discovery of a galaxy cluster at z = 0.089 behind the Galactic plane

The Zone of Avoidance (ZoA) continues to represent the most significant incompleteness in the extragalactic census of the Local Universe. It is evident that photometric surveys alone are insufficient to establish whether the galaxy overdensities detected therein are physical systems or projections along the line of sig...