VVV IR high proper motion stars
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2015
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UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTONOMA MEXICO INSTITUTO ASTRONOMIA
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We used the VISTA Variables en Via Lactea (VVV) survey to search for large proper motion (PM) objects in the zone of avoidance in the Milky Way bulge and southern Galactic disk. This survey is multi-epoch and already spans a period of more than four years, giving us an excellent opportunity for proper motion and parallax studies. We found around 1700 PM objects with PM>30 mas yr(-1). The majority of them are early and mid M-dwarfs. There are also few later spectral type objects, as well as numerous new K- and G-dwarfs. 75 of the stars have PM>300 mas(-1) and 189 stars have PM>200 mas(-1). There are only 42 previously known stars in the VVV area with proper motion PM>200 mas(-1). We also found three dM+WD binaries and new members of the immediate solar vicinity of 25 pc. We generated a catalog which will be a complementary to the existing catalogs outside this zone.
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infrared: stars, proper motions, stars: low-mass, surveys, SOLAR NEIGHBORHOOD, MULTIPLICITY, CATALOG