VISTA Variables in the V\'ia L\'actea (VVV): Halfway Status and Results
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
2014-06-13 v1
Abstract
The VISTA Variables in the V\'ia L\'actea (VVV) survey is one of six public ESO surveys, and is now in its 4th year of observing. Although far from being complete, the VVV survey has already delivered many results, some directly connected to the intended science goals (detection of variables stars, microlensing events, new star clusters), others concerning more exotic objects, e.g. novae. Now, at the end of the fourth observing period, and comprising roughly 50% of the proposed observations, the actual status of the survey, as well some of the results based on the VVV data, are presented.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1406.3241,
title = {VISTA Variables in the V\'ia L\'actea (VVV): Halfway Status and Results},
author = {Maren Hempel and Dante Minniti and István Dékány and Roberto K. Saito and Philip W. Lucas and Jim Emerson and Andrea V. Ahumada and Suzanne Aigrain and Maria Victoria Alonso and Javier Alonso-García and Eduardo B. Amôres and Rodolfo Angeloni and Julia Arias and Reba Bandyopadhyay and Rodolfo H. Barbá and Beatriz Barbuy and Gustavo Baume and Juan Carlos Beamin and Luigi Bedin and Eduardo Bica and Jordanka Borissova and Leonardo Bronfman and Giovanni Carraro and Márcio Catelan and Juan J. Clariá and Carlos Contreras and Nicholas Cross and Christopher Davis and Richard de Grijs and Janet E. Drew and Cecilia Fariña and Carlos Feinstein and Eduardo Fernández Lajús and Stuart Folkes and Roberto C. Gamen and Douglas Geisler and Wolfgang Gieren and Bertrand Goldman and Oscar González and Andrew Gosling and Guillermo Gunthardt and Sebastian Gurovich and Nigel C. Hambly and Margaret Hanson and Melvin Hoare and Mike J. Irwin and Valentin D. Ivanov and Andrés Jordán and Eamonn Kerins and Karen Kinemuchi and Radostin Kurtev and Andy Longmore and Martin López-Corredoira and Tom Maccarone and Eduardo Martín and Nicola Masetti and Ronald E. Mennickent and David Merlo and Maria Messineo and I. Félix Mirabel and Lorenzo Monaco and Christian Moni Bidin and Lorenzo Morelli and Nelson Padilla and Tali Palma and Maria Celeste Parisi and Quentin Parker and Daniela Pavani and Pawel Pietrukowicz and Grzegorz Pietrzynski and Giuliano Pignata and Marina Rejkuba and Alejandra Rojas and Alexandre Roman-Lopes and Maria Teresa Ruiz and Stuart E. Sale and Ivo Saviane and Matthias R. Schreiber and Anja C. Schröder and Saurabh Sharma and Michael Smith and Laerte Sodré and Mario Soto and Andrew W. Stephens and Motohide Tamura and Claus Tappert and Mark A. Thompson and Ignacio Toledo and Elena Valenti and Leonardo Vanzi and Walter Weidmann and Manuela Zoccali},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.3241},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
5 pages, 7 figures