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Galaxies behind the Galactic Plane: First Results and Perspectives from the VVV Survey

Authors: E. B. Amôres, L. Sodré, D. Minniti, M. V. Alonso, N. Padilla, S. Gurovich, V. Arsenijevic, Erik J. Tollerud, A. Rodríguez-Ardila, J. Díaz Tello, and P. W. Lucas

Amôres et al. 2012 The Astronomical Journal 144 127.

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DIRBE/COBE emission map at 2.2 μm; each interval in the contour represents 0.5 MJy; galaxies observed by other surveys (see legend at the top) are large symbols; objects of the present work are represented by crosses in d003 tile centered at (ℓ, b) = (298.3558, −1.6497). References: DENIS (Paturel et al. 2005); 2MASS (Skrutskie et al. 2006); Woudt et al. (2001).

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