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- ItemA Chemical and Kinematical Analysis of the Intermediate-age Open Cluster IC 166 from APOGEE and Gaia DR2(2018) Schiappacasse-Ulloa, J.; Tang, B.; Fernandez-Trincado, J. G.; Zamora, O.; Geisler, D.; Frinchaboy, P.; Schultheis, M.; Dell'Agli, F.; Villanova, S.; Masseron, T.; Meszaros, Sz; Souto, D.; Hasselquist, S.; Cunha, K.; Smith, V. V.; Garcia-Hernandez, D. A.; Vieira, K.; Robin, A. C.; Minniti, D.; Zasowski, G.; Moreno, E.; Perez-Villegas, A.; Lane, R. R.; Ivans, I. I.; Pan, K.; Nitschelm, C.; Santana, F. A.; Carrera, R.; Roman-Lopes, A.
- ItemA Perspective on the Milky Way Bulge Bar as Seen from the Neutron-capture Elements Cerium and Neodymium with APOGEE(2024) Sales-Silva, J. V.; Cunha, K.; Smith, V. V.; Daflon, S.; Souto, D.; Guerco, R.; Queiroz, A.; Chiappini, C.; Hayes, C. R.; Masseron, T.; Hasselquist, Sten; Horta, D.; Prantzos, N.; Zoccali, M.; Allende Prieto, C.; Barbuy, B.; Beaton, R.; Bizyaev, D.; Fernandez-Trincado, J. G.; Frinchaboy, P. M.; Holtzman, J. A.; Johnson, J. A.; Joensson, Henrik; Majewski, S. R.; Minniti, D.; Nidever, D. L.; Schiavon, R. P.; Schultheis, M.; Sobeck, J.; Stringfellow, G. S.; Zasowski, G.This study probes the chemical abundances of the neutron-capture elements cerium and neodymium in the inner Milky Way from an analysis of a sample of similar to 2000 stars in the Galactic bulge bar spatially contained within divided by X-Gal divided by < 5 kpc, divided by Y-Gal divided by < 3.5 kpc, and divided by Z(Gal)divided by < 1 kpc, and spanning metallicities between -2.0 less than or similar to [Fe/H] less than or similar to +0.5. We classify the sample stars into low- or high-[Mg/Fe] populations and find that, in general, values of [Ce/Fe] and [Nd/Fe] increase as the metallicity decreases for the low- and high-[Mg/Fe] populations. Ce abundances show a more complex variation across the metallicity range of our bulge-bar sample when compared to Nd, with the r-process dominating the production of neutron-capture elements in the high-[Mg/Fe] population ([Ce/Nd] < 0.0). We find a spatial chemical dependence of Ce and Nd abundances for our sample of bulge-bar stars, with low- and high-[Mg/Fe] populations displaying a distinct abundance distribution. In the region close to the center of the MW, the low-[Mg/Fe] population is dominated by stars with low [Ce/Fe], [Ce/Mg], [Nd/Mg], [Nd/Fe], and [Ce/Nd] ratios. The low [Ce/Nd] ratio indicates a significant contribution in this central region from r-process yields for the low-[Mg/Fe] population. The chemical pattern of the most metal-poor stars in our sample suggests an early chemical enrichment of the bulge dominated by yields from core-collapse supernovae and r-process astrophysical sites, such as magnetorotational supernovae.
- ItemAbundance analysis of APOGEE spectra for 58 metal-poor stars from the bulge spheroid(2022) Razera, R.; Barbuy, B.; Moura, T. C.; Ernandes, H.; Perez-Villegas, A.; Souza, S. O.; Chiappini, C.; Queiroz, A. B. A.; Anders, F.; Fernandez-Trincado, J. G.; Friaca, A. C. S.; Cunha, K.; Smith, V. V.; Santiago, B. X.; Schiavon, R. P.; Valentini, M.; Minniti, D.; Schultheis, M.; Geisler, D.; Sobeck, J.; Placco, V. M.; Zoccali, M.The central part of the Galaxy hosts a multitude of stellar populations, including the spheroidal bulge stars, stars moved to the bulge through secular evolution of the bar, inner halo, inner thick disc, inner thin disc, as well as debris from past accretion events. We identified a sample of 58 candidate stars belonging to the stellar population of the spheroidal bulge, and analyse their abundances. The present calculations of Mg, Ca, and Si lines are in agreement with the ASPCAP abundances, whereas abundances of C, N, O, and Ce are re-examined. We find normal alpha-element enhancements in oxygen, similar to magnesium, Si, and Ca abundances, which are typical of other bulge stars surveyed in the optical in Baade's Window. The enhancement of [O/Fe] in these stars suggests that they do not belong to accreted debris. No spread in N abundances is found, and none of the sample stars is N-rich, indicating that these stars are not second generation stars originated in globular clusters. Ce instead is enhanced in the sample stars, which points to an s-process origin such as due to enrichment from early generations of massive fast rotating stars, the so-called spinstars.
- ItemAbundances of iron-peak elements in 58 bulge spheroid stars from APOGEE(EDP SCIENCES S A, 2024) Barbuy, B.; Friaca, A. C. S.; Ernandes, H.; da Silva, P.; Souza, S. O.; Fernandez-Trincado, J. G.; Cunha, K.; Smith, V. V.; Masseron, T.; Perez-Villegas, A.; Chiappini, C.; Queiroz, A. B. A.; Santiago, B. X.; Beers, T. C.; Anders, F.; Schiavon, R. P.; Valentini, M.; Minniti, D.; Geisler, D.; Souto, D.; Placco, V. M.; Zoccali, Manuela; Feltzing, S.; Schultheis, M.; Nitschelm, C.Context. Stars presently identified in the bulge spheroid are probably very old, and their abundances can be interpreted as due to the fast chemical enrichment of the early Galactic bulge. The abundances of the iron-peak elements are important tracers of nucleosynthesis processes, in particular oxygen burning, silicon burning, the weak s-process, and alpha-rich freeze-out. Aims. The aim of this work is to derive the abundances of V, Cr, Mn, Co, Ni, and Cu in 58 bulge spheroid stars and to compare them with the results of a previous analysis of data from the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE). Methods. We selected the best lines for V, Cr, Mn, Co, Ni, and Cu located within the H-band of the spectrum, identifying the most suitable ones for abundance determination, and discarding severe blends. Using the stellar physical parameters available for our sample from the DR17 release of the APOGEE project, we derived the individual abundances through spectrum synthesis. We then complemented these measurements with similar results from different bulge field and globular cluster stars, in order to define the trends of the individual elements and compare with the results of chemical-evolution models. Results. We verify that the H-band has useful lines for the derivation of the elements V, Cr, Mn, Co, Ni, and Cu in moderately metal-poor stars. The abundances, plotted together with others from high-resolution spectroscopy of bulge stars, indicate that: V, Cr, and Ni vary in lockstep with Fe; Co tends to vary in lockstep with Fe, but could be showing a slight decrease with decreasing metallicity; and Mn and Cu decrease with decreasing metallicity. These behaviours are well reproduced by chemical-evolution models that adopt literature yields, except for Cu, which appears to drop faster than the models predict for [Fe/H]<-0.8. Finally, abundance indicators combined with kinematical and dynamical criteria appear to show that our 58 sample stars are likely to have originated in situ.
- ItemAPOGEE chemical abundances of globular cluster giants in the inner Galaxy(2017) Schiavon, Ricardo P.; Johnson, Jennifer A.; Frinchaboy, Peter M.; Zasowski, Gail; Meszaros, Szabolcs; Garcia-Hernandez, D. A.; Cohen, Roger E.; Tang, Baitian; Villanova, Sandro; Geisler, Douglas; Beers, Timothy C.; Fernandez-Trincado, J. G.; Garcia Perez, Ana E.; Lucatello, Sara; Majewski, Steven R.; Martell, Sarah L.; O'Connell, Robert W.; Allende Prieto, Carlos; Bizyaev, Dmitry; Carrera, Ricardo; Lane, Richard R.; Malanushenko, Elena; Malanushenko, Viktor; Munoz, Ricardo R.; Nitschelm, Christian; Oravetz, Daniel; Pan, Kaike; Roman-Lopes, Alexandre; Schultheis, Matthias; Simmons, AudreyWe report chemical abundances obtained by Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)-III/Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment for giant stars in five globular clusters located within 2.2 kpc of the Galactic Centre. We detect the presence of multiple stellar populations in four of those clusters (NGC 6553, NGC 6528, Terzan 5 and Palomar 6) and find strong evidence for their presence in NGC 6522. All clusters with a large enough sample present a significant spread in the abundances of N, C, Na and Al, with the usual correlations and anticorrelations between various abundances seen in other globular clusters. Our results provide important quantitative constraints on theoretical models for self-enrichment of globular clusters, by testing their predictions for the dependence of yields of elements such as Na, N, C and Al on metallicity. They also confirm that, under the assumption that field N-rich stars originate from globular cluster destruction, they can be used as tracers of their parental systems in the high-metallicity regime.
- ItemChemical Cartography with APOGEE: Multi-element Abundance Ratios(2019) Weinberg, David H.; Holtzman, Jon A.; Hasselquist, Sten; Bird, Jonathan C.; Johnson, Jennifer A.; Shetrone, Matthew; Sobeck, Jennifer; Allende Prieto, Carlos; Bizyaev, Dmitry; Carrera, Ricardo; Cohen, Roger E.; Cunha, Katia; Ebelke, Garrett; Fernandez-Trincado, J. G.; Garcia-Hernandez, D. A.; Hayes, Christian R.; Jonsson, Henrik; Lane, Richard R.; Majewski, Steven R.; Malanushenko, Viktor; Meszaros, Szabolcs; Nidever, David L.; Nitschelm, Christian; Pan, Kaike; Rix, Hans-Walter; Rybizki, Jan; Schiavon, Ricardo P.; Schneider, Donald P.; Wilso, John C.; Zamora, OlgaWe map the trends of elemental abundance ratios across the Galactic disk, spanning R = 3-15 kpc and midplane distance vertical bar Z vertical bar = 0-2 kpc, for 15 elements in a sample of 20,485 stars measured by the SDSS/APOGEE survey (O, Na, Mg, Al, Si, P, S, K, Ca, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni). Adopting Mg rather than Fe as our reference element, and separating stars into two populations based on [Fe/Mg], we find that the median trends of [X/Mg] versus [Mg/H] in each population are nearly independent of location in the Galaxy. The full multi-element cartography can be summarized by combining these nearly universal median sequences with our measured metallicity distribution functions and the relative proportions of the low-[Fe/Mg] (high-alpha) and high-[Fe/Mg] (low-alpha) populations, which depend strongly on R and vertical bar Z vertical bar. We interpret the median sequences with a semi-empirical "two-process" model that describes both the ratio of core collapse and Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) contributions to each element and the metallicity dependence of the supernova yields. These observationally inferred trends can provide strong tests of supernova nucleosynthesis calculations. Our results lead to a relatively simple picture of abundance ratio variations in the Milky Way, in which the trends at any location can be described as the sum of two components with relative contributions that change systematically and smoothly across the Galaxy. Deviations from this picture and future extensions to other elements can provide further insights into the physics of stellar nucleosynthesis and unusual events in the Galaxy's history.
- ItemDisentangling the Galactic Halo with APOGEE. I. Chemical and Kinematical Investigation of Distinct Metal-poor Populations(2018) Hayes, Christian R.; Majewski, Steven R.; Shetrone, Matthew; Fernandez-Alvar, Emma; Allende Prieto, Carlos; Schuster, William J.; Carigi, Leticia; Cunha, Katia; Smith, Verne V.; Sobeck, Jennifer; Almeida, Andres; Beers, Timothy C.; Carrera, Ricardo; Fernandez-Trincado, J. G.; Garcia-Hernandez, D. A.; Geisler, Doug; Lane, Richard R.; Lucatello, Sara; Matthews, Allison M.; Minniti, Dante; Nitschelm, Christian; Tang, Baitian; Tissera, Patricia B.; Zamora, OlgaWe find two chemically distinct populations separated relatively cleanly in the [Fe/H]-[Mg/Fe] plane, but also distinguished in other chemical planes, among metal-poor stars (primarily with metallicities [Fe/H] < -0.9) observed by the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) and analyzed for Data Release 13 (DR13) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. These two stellar populations show the most significant differences in their [X/Fe] ratios for the alpha-elements, C+N, Al, and Ni. In addition to these populations having differing chemistry, the low metallicity high-Mg population (which we denote "the HMg population") exhibits a significant net Galactic rotation, whereas the low-Mg population (or "the LMg population") has halo-like kinematics with little to no net rotation. Based on its properties, the origin of the LMg population is likely an accreted population of stars. The HMg population shows chemistry (and to an extent kinematics) similar to the thick disk, and is likely associated with in situ formation. The distinction between the LMg and HMg populations mimics the differences between the populations of low-and high-a halo stars found in previous studies, suggesting that these are samples of the same two populations.
- ItemFrom the bulge to the outer disc: monospace StarHorse monospace stellar parameters, distances, and extinctions for stars in APOGEE DR16 and other spectroscopic surveys(2020) Queiroz, A. B. A.; Anders, F.; Chiappini, C.; Khalatyan, A.; Santiago, B. X.; Steinmetz, M.; Valentini, M.; Miglio, A.; Bossini, D.; Barbuy, B.; Minchev, I; Minniti, D.; Garcia Hernandez, D. A.; Schultheis, M.; Beaton, R. L.; Beers, T. C.; Bizyaev, D.; Brownstein, J. R.; Cunha, K.; Fernandez-Trincado, J. G.; Frinchaboy, P. M.; Lane, R. R.; Majewski, S. R.; Nataf, D.; Nitschelm, C.; Pan, K.; Roman-Lopes, A.; Sobeck, J. S.; Stringfellow, G.; Zamora, O.We combine high-resolution spectroscopic data from APOGEE-2 survey Data Release 16 (DR16) with broad-band photometric data from several sources as well as parallaxes from Gaia Data Release 2 (DR2). Using the Bayesian isochrone-fitting code StarHorse, we derived the distances, extinctions, and astrophysical parameters for around 388 815 APOGEE stars. We achieve typical distance uncertainties of similar to 6% for APOGEE giants, similar to 2% for APOGEE dwarfs, and extinction uncertainties of similar to 0.07 mag, when all photometric information is available, and similar to 0.17 mag if optical photometry is missing. StarHorse uncertainties vary with the input spectroscopic catalogue, available photometry, and parallax uncertainties. To illustrate the impact of our results, we show that thanks to Gaia DR2 and the now larger sky coverage of APOGEE-2 (including APOGEE-South), we obtain an extended map of the Galactic plane. We thereby provide an unprecedented coverage of the disc close to the Galactic mid-plane (|Z(Gal)| < 1 kpc) from the Galactic centre out to R-Gal20 kpc. The improvements in statistics as well as distance and extinction uncertainties unveil the presence of the bar in stellar density and the striking chemical duality in the innermost regions of the disc, which now clearly extend to the inner bulge. We complement this paper with distances and extinctions for stars in other public released spectroscopic surveys: 324 999 in GALAH DR2, 4 928 715 in LAMOST DR5, 408 894 in RAVE DR6, and 6095 in GES DR3.
- ItemH-band discovery of additional second-generation stars in the Galactic bulge globular cluster NGC 6522 as observed by APOGEE and Gaia(2019) Fernandez-Trincado, J. G.; Zamora, O.; Souto, Diogo; Cohen, R. E.; Agli, F. Dell; Garcia-Hernandez, D. A.; Masseron, T.; Schiavon, R. P.; Meszaros, Sz; Cunha, K.; Hasselquist, S.; Shetrone, M.; Schiappacasse Ulloa, J.; Tang, B.; Geisler, D.; Schleicher, D. R. G.; Villanova, S.; Mennickent, R. E.; Minniti, D.; Alonso-Garcia, J.; Manchado, A.; Beers, T. C.; Sobeck, J.; Zasowski, G.; Schultheis, M.; Majewski, S. R.; Rojas-Arriagada, A.; Almeida, A.; Santana, F.; Oelkers, R. J.; Longa-Pena, P.; Carrera, R.; Burgasser, A. J.; Lane, R. R.; Roman-Lopes, A.; Ivans, I. I.; Hearty, F. R.We present an elemental abundance analysis of high-resolution spectra for five giant stars spatially located within the innermost regions of the bulge globular cluster NGC 6522 and derive Fe, Mg, Al, C, N, O, Si, and Ce abundances based on H-band spectra taken with the multi-object APOGEE-north spectrograph from the SDSS-IV Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) survey. Of the five cluster candidates, two previously unremarked stars are confirmed to have second-generation (SG) abundance patterns, with the basic pattern of depletion in C and Mg simultaneous with enrichment in N and Al as seen in other SG globular cluster populations at similar metallicity. In agreement with the most recent optical studies, the NGC 6522 stars analyzed exhibit (when available) only mild overabundances of the s-process element Ce, contradicting the idea that NGC 6522 stars are formed from gas enriched by spinstars and indicating that other stellar sources such as massive AGB stars could be the primary polluters of intra-cluster medium. The peculiar abundance signatures of SG stars have been observed in our data, confirming the presence of multiple generations of stars in NGC 6522.
- ItemLight elements Na and Al in 58 bulge spheroid stars from APOGEE(2023) Barbuy, B.; Friaca, A. C. S.; Ernandes, H.; Moura, T.; Masseron, T.; Cunha, K.; Smith, V. V.; Souto, D.; Perez-Villegas, A.; Souza, S. O.; Chiappini, C.; Queiroz, A. B. A.; Fernandez-Trincado, J. G.; da Silva, P.; Santiago, B. X.; Anders, F.; Schiavon, R. P.; Valentini, M.; Minniti, D.; Geisler, D.; Placco, V. M.; Zoccali, M.; Schultheis, M.; Nitschelm, C.; Beers, T. C.; Razera, R.We identified a sample of 58 candidate stars with metallicity [Fe/H]less than or similar to-0.8 that likely belong to the old bulge spheroid stellar population, and analyse their Na and Al abundances from Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) spectra. In a previous work, we inspected APOGEE-Stellar Parameter and Chemical Abundance Pipeline abundances of C, N, O, Mg, Al, Ca, Si, and Ce in this sample. Regarding Na lines, one of them appears very strong in about 20percent of the sample stars, but it is not confirmed by other Na lines, and can be explained by sky lines, which affect the reduced spectra of stars in a certain radial velocity range. The Na abundances for 15 more reliable cases were taken into account. Al lines in the H band instead appear to be very reliable. Na and Al exhibit a spread in abundances, whereas no spread in N abundances is found, and we found no correlation between them, indicating that these stars could not be identified as second-generation stars that originated in globular clusters. We carry out the study of the behaviour of Na and Al in our sample of bulge stars and literature data by comparing them with chemodynamical evolution model suitable for the Galactic bulge. The Na abundances show a large spread, and the chemodynamical models follow the main data, whereas for aluminum instead, the models reproduce very satisfactorily the nearly secondary-element behaviour of aluminum in the metallicity range below [Fe/H]less than or similar to-1.0. For the lower-metallicity end ([Fe/H<-2.5), hypernovae are assumed to be the main contributor to yields.
- ItemThe Milky Way bar and bulge revealed by APOGEE and Gaia EDR3(2021) Queiroz, A. B. A.; Chiappini, C.; Perez-Villegas, A.; Khalatyan, A.; Anders, F.; Barbuy, B.; Santiago, B. X.; Steinmetz, M.; Cunha, K.; Schultheis, M.; Majewski, S. R.; Minchev, I; Minniti, D.; Beaton, R. L.; Cohen, R. E.; da Costa, L. N.; Fernandez-Trincado, J. G.; Garcia-Hernandez, D. A.; Geisler, D.; Hasselquist, S.; Lane, R. R.; Nitschelm, C.; Rojas-Arriagada, A.; Roman-Lopes, A.; Smith, V; Zasowski, G.We investigate the inner regions of the Milky Way using data from APOGEE and Gaia EDR3. Our inner Galactic sample has more than 26 500 stars within |X-Gal|< 5 kpc, |Y-Gal|< 3.5 kpc, |Z(Gal)|< 1 kpc, and we also carry out the analysis for a foreground-cleaned subsample of 8000 stars that is more representative of the bulge-bar populations. These samples allow us to build chemo-dynamical maps of the stellar populations with vastly improved detail. The inner Galaxy shows an apparent chemical bimodality in key abundance ratios [alpha/Fe], [C/N], and [Mn/O], which probe different enrichment timescales, suggesting a star formation gap (quenching) between the high- and low-alpha populations. Using a joint analysis of the distributions of kinematics, metallicities, mean orbital radius, and chemical abundances, we can characterize the different populations coexisting in the innermost regions of the Galaxy for the first time. The chemo-kinematic data dissected on an eccentricity-|Z|(max) plane reveal the chemical and kinematic signatures of the bar, the thin inner disc, and an inner thick disc, and a broad metallicity population with large velocity dispersion indicative of a pressure-supported component. The interplay between these different populations is mapped onto the different metallicity distributions seen in the eccentricity-|Z|(max) diagram consistently with the mean orbital radius and V-phi distributions. A clear metallicity gradient as a function of |Z|(max) is also found, which is consistent with the spatial overlapping of different populations. Additionally, we find and chemically and kinematically characterize a group of counter-rotating stars that could be the result of a gas-rich merger event or just the result of clumpy star formation during the earliest phases of the early disc that migrated into the bulge. Finally, based on 6D information, we assign stars a probability value of being on a bar orbit and find that most of the stars with large bar orbit probabilities come from the innermost 3 kpc, with a broad dispersion of metallicity. Even stars with a high probability of belonging to the bar show chemical bimodality in the [alpha/Fe] versus [Fe/H] diagram. This suggests bar trapping to be an efficient mechanism, explaining why stars on bar orbits do not show a significant, distinct chemical abundance ratio signature.
- ItemThe Origin of the 300 km s(-1) Stream near Segue 1(2018) Fu, Sal Wanying; Simon, Joshua D.; Shetrone, Matthew; Bovy, Jo; Beers, Timothy C.; Fernandez-Trincado, J. G.; Placco, Vinicius M.; Zamora, Olga; Allende Prieto, Carlos; Garcia-Hernandez, D. A.; Harding, Paul; Ivans, Inese; Lane, Richard; Nitschelm, Christian; Roman-Lopes, Alexandre; Sobeck, Jennifer
- ItemThe VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea extended (VVVX) ESO public survey: Completion of the observations and legacy(2024) Saito, R. K.; Hempel, M.; Alonso-Garcia, J.; Lucas, P. W.; Minniti, D.; Alonso, S.; Baravalle, L.; Borissova, J.; Caceres, C.; Chene, A. N.; Cross, N. J. G.; Duplancic, F.; Garro, E. R.; Gomez, M.; Ivanov, V. D.; Kurtev, R.; Luna, A.; Majaess, D.; Navarro, M. G.; Pullen, J. B.; Rejkuba, M.; Sanders, J. L.; Smith, L. C.; Albino, P. H. C.; Alonso, M. V.; Amores, E. B.; Angeloni, R.; Arias, J. I.; Arnaboldi, M.; Barbuy, B.; Bayo, A.; Beamin, J. C.; Bedin, L. R.; Bellini, A.; Benjamin, R. A.; Bica, E.; Bonatto, C. J.; Botan, E.; Braga, V. F.; Brown, D. A.; Cabral, J. B.; Camargo, D.; Garatti, Caratti O. A.; Carballo-Bello, J. A.; Catelan, M.; Chavero, C.; Chijani, M. A.; Claria, J. J.; Coldwell, G. V.; Pena, C. Contreras; Contreras Ramos, R.; Corral-Santana, J. M.; Cortes, C. C.; Cortes-Contreras, M.; Cruz, P.; Daza-Perilla, I. V.; Debattista, V. P.; Dias, B.; Donoso, L.; D'Souza, R.; Emerson, J. P.; Federle, S.; Fermiano, V.; Fernandez, J.; Fernandez-Trincado, J. G.; Ferreira, T.; Ferreira Lopes, C. E.; Firpo, V.; Flores-Quintana, C.; Fraga, L.; Froebrich, D.; Galdeano, D.; Gavignaud, I.; Geisler, D.; Gerhard, O. E.; Gieren, W.; Gonzalez, O. A.; Gramajo, L. V.; Gran, F.; Granitto, P. M.; Griggio, M.; Guo, Z.; Gurovich, S.; Hilker, M.; Jones, H. R. A.; Kammers, R.; Kuhn, M. A.; Kumar, M. S. N.; Kundu, R.; Lares, M.; Libralato, M.; Lima, E.; Maccarone, T. J.; Marchant Cortes, P.; Martin, E. L.; Masetti, N.; Matsunaga, N.; Mauro, F.; McDonald, I.; Mejias, A.; Mesa, V.; Milla-Castro, F. P.; Minniti, J. H.; Moni Bidin, C.; Montenegro, K.; Morris, C.; Motta, V.; Navarete, F.; Navarro Molina, C.; Nikzat, F.; Nilo Castellon, J. L.; Obasi, C.; Ortigoza-Urdaneta, M.; Palma, T.; Parisi, C.; Pena Ramirez, K.; Pereyra, L.; Perez, N.; Petralia, I.; Pichel, A.; Pignata, G.; Ramirez Alegria, S.; Rojas, A. F.; Rojas, D.; Roman-Lopes, A.; Rovero, A. C.; Saroon, S.; Schmidt, E. O.; Schroeder, A. C.; Schultheis, M.; Sgro, M. A.; Solano, E.; Soto, M.; Stecklum, B.; Steeghs, D.; Tamura, M.; Tissera, P.; Valcarce, A. A. R.; Valotto, C. A.; Vasquez, S.; Villalon, C.; Villanova, S.; Vivanco Cadiz, F.; Zelada Bacigalupo, R.; Zijlstra, A.; Zoccali, M.Context. The ESO public survey VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) surveyed the inner Galactic bulge and the adjacent southern Galactic disk from 2009-2015. Upon its conclusion, the complementary VVV extended (VVVX) survey has expanded both the temporal as well as spatial coverage of the original VVV area, widening it from 562 to 1700 sq. deg., as well as providing additional epochs in JHKs filters from 2016-2023.