Authors: Hempel, Maren, Minniti, D., Alonso-Garcia, J., Ivanov, V., Saviane., I. (on 
behalf of the VVV team)

Exploring Heavily Reddened Globular Clusters with the VVV Survey of the Milky Way

VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea} (VVV) is a new ESO Public survey carried out with 
the {\it Visual and Infrared Telescope for Astronomy} (VISTA) at Paranal Observatory. 
This is an infrared (IR) variability survey of the Milky Way bulge and an adjacent section 
of the mid-plane where the star formation activity is high. The survey would take 
1929\,hrs, producing a catalog of ~10^9 point sources over an area of 520 deg^2. The 
variability campaign throughout the entire area will produce light curves with typically 
100 data points. The final VVV data products will be a deep IR atlas in ZYJHKs 
passbands, and a catalogue of ~10^6 variable point sources.
We have discovered a new globular cluster, which brings the total number of globular 
clusters to 36 in the area observed by the VVV Survey. This represent a uniform 
sample of IR photometry for globular clusters located in the central regions of the Milky 
Way, which is used to measure accurate distances and reddenings for many clusters 
that were poorly studied before.