Massive open star clusters using the VVV survey III. A young massive cluster at the far edge of the Galactic bar

Context. Young massive clusters are key to map the Milky Way’s structure, and near-infrared large area sky surveys have contributed strongly to the discovery of new obscured massive stellar clusters. Aims. We present the third article in a series of papers focused on young and massive clusters discovered in the VVV survey. This article is dedicated to the physical characterization of VVV CL086, using part of its OB-stellar population. Methods. We physically characterized the cluster using JHKS near-infrared photometry from ESO public survey VVV images, using the VVV-SkZ pipeline, and near-infrared K-band spectroscopy, following the methodology presented in the first article of the series. Results. Individual distances for two observed stars indicate that the cluster is located at the far edge of the Galactic bar. These stars, which are probable cluster members from the statistically field-star decontaminated CMD, have spectral types between O9 and B0 V. According to our analysis, this young cluster (1.0 Myr < age < 5.0 Myr) is located at a distance of 11+5-6 kpc, and we estimate a lower limit for the cluster total mass of (2.8+1.6-1.4) · 103 M⊙. It is likely that the cluster contains even earlier and more massive stars.

New galactic star clusters discovered in the VVV survey. Candidates projected on the inner disk and bulge

Context. VISTA Variables in the Vía Láctea (VVV) is one of six ESO Public Surveys using the 4 meter Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA). The VVV survey covers the Milky Way bulge and an adjacent section of the disk, and one of the principal objectives is to search for new star clusters within previously unreachable obscured parts of the Galaxy. Aims. The primary motivation behind this work is to discover and analyze obscured star clusters in the direction of the inner Galactic disk and bulge. Methods. Regions of the inner disk and bulge covered by the VVV survey were visually inspected using composite JHKS color images to select new cluster candidates on the basis of apparent overdensities. DR1, DR2, CASU, and point spread function photometry of 10 × 10 arcmin fields centered on each candidate cluster were used to construct color–magnitude and color–color diagrams. Follow-up spectroscopy of the brightest members of several cluster candidates was obtained in order to clarify their nature. Results. We report the discovery of 58 new infrared cluster candidates. Fundamental parameters such as age, distance, and metallicity were determined for 20 of the most populous clusters.

Una clave humanista de mediados del siglo XV para el Humanismo de la Corona de Aragón desde fines del siglo XIV: Ferran Valentí y el Prólogo a su traducción de las Paradoxa de Cicerón

In this article I study the Preface by Ferran Valentí to his own translation into Catalan of Cicero’s Paradoxa. Ferran Valentí was a humanist from Majorca, author in Catalan language who earned a Low Degree at the University of Bologna and who declared himself a devoted “son and pupil” of humanist Leonardo Bruni. Valentí made an analysis of the humanistic Canon in mid-15th century, including troubadours, Dante, Lullius, Latin literature classics and several Catalan authors, such as Bernat Metge. This proves that humanism was a true trend in the Crown of Aragon from the 2nd half of the 14th Century on.

Jornada espiritual; versos.

Mode of access: Internet.

La Economía social en la Argentina y el mundo /

Papers from a seminar, organized by two university institutions and two private organizations, and held Sept. 26-27, 1988 under sponsorship of the Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Sociales de la UBA.

Italian life and legends /

"The sketches were written ... in the years 1864 and 1865. A few appeared in the periodicals at the time they were written."--Pref.

Silent noon /

For medium voice and piano (key of E♭).

Hauptfragen der Romanistik; Festschrift für Philipp August Becker zum 1. Juni 1922.

"Verzeichnis der bis 1922 erschienenen veröffentlichungen Philipp August Beckers": p. [ix]-xxiii.

Raccolta di poesie /

Dante e la luce : canzone, with dedication (p. [105]-111)

Brunetto Latini e Il pataffio /

Includes index.

Essays : fremmede forfattere /

Viktor Rydberg.--Edgar Poe.--Mester Frans Villon.--Blaise Pascal.--Teodor de Wyzewa.--Garshcin.--Dante.--Laura Marholm Hansson.

L'antico marmo scritto appartenente alla colonia di Pozzuoli nuovamente

Mode of access: Internet.

Essays in literary interpretation,/

Some aspects of modern literature -- Personality in literary work -- The significance of modern criticism -- The poetry of Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- Robert Browning -- John Keats : poet and man -- Some modern readings from Dante -- A word about humour.

Proposta di alcune correzioni ed aggiunte al Vocabolario della Crusca.

Vol. 1 includes: Degli scrittori del Trecento e de'loro imitatori, libri due, del conte G. Perticari. Vol. 3 includes: Dell'amor patrio di Dante e del suo libro intorno il volgare eloquio; apologia composta dal conte Giulio Perticari. Vol. 4, by V. Soncini, ed. by A.F. Stella, has title: Appendice alla Proposta di alcune correzioni ed aggiunte al Vocabolario della Crusca.