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The Vista Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) ESO Public Survey: Current Status and First Results

Vista Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) is an ESO Public Survey that is performing a variability survey of the Galactic bulge and part of the inner disk using ESO's Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA). The survey…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-06-08 M. Catelan , D. Minniti , P. W. Lucas , J. Alonso-Garcia , R. Angeloni , J. C. Beamin , C. Bonatto , J. Borissova , C. Contreras , N. Cross , I. Dekany , J. P. Emerson , S. Eyheramendy , D. Geisler , E. Gonzalez-Solares , K. G. Helminiak , M. Hempel , M. J. Irwin , V. D. Ivanov , A. Jordan , E. Kerins , R. Kurtev , F. Mauro , C. Moni Bidin , C. Navarrete , P. Perez , K. Pichara , M. Read , M. Rejkuba , R. K. Saito , S. E. Sale , I. Toledo

Stellar Variability in the VVV survey

The Vista Variables in the V\'ia L\'actea (VVV) ESO Public Survey is an ongoing time-series, near-infrared (IR) survey of the Galactic bulge and an adjacent portion of the inner disk, covering 562 square degrees of the sky, using ESO's…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-06 M. Catelan , D. Minniti , P. W. Lucas , I. Dékány , R. K. Saito , R. Angeloni , J. Alonso-García , M. Hempel , K. Helminiak , A. Jordán , R. Contreras Ramos , C. Navarrete , J. C. Beamín , A. F. Rojas , F. Gran , C. E. Ferreira Lopes , C. Contreras Peña , E. Kerins , L. Huckvale , M. Rejkuba , R. Cohen , F. Mauro , J. Borissova , P. Amigo , S. Eyheramendy , K. Pichara , N. Espinoza , C. Navarro , G. Hajdu , D. N. Calderón Espinoza , G. A. Muro , H. Andrews , V. Motta , R. Kurtev , J. P. Emerson , C. Moni Bidin , A. -N. Chené

The VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea survey: A first glance on stellar variability

VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) is an ESO public near-infrared variability survey of the Galactic bulge and an adjacent area of the southern mid-plane. It will produce a deep atlas in the ZYJHKs filters, and a Ks-band time-series…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-09 I. Dekany , M. Catelan , D. Minniti , the VVV Collaboration

VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV): The public ESO near-IR variability survey of the Milky Way

We describe the public ESO near-IR variability survey (VVV) scanning the Milky Way bulge and an adjacent section of the mid-plane where star formation activity is high. The survey will take 1929 hours of observations with the 4-metre VISTA…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 D. Minniti , P. W. Lucas , J. P. Emerson , R. K. Saito , M. Hempel , P. Pietrukowicz , A. V. Ahumada , M. V. Alonso , J. Alonso-García , J. I. Arias , R. M. Bandyopadhyay , R. H. Barbá , B. Barbuy , L. R. Bedin , E. Bica , J. Borissova , L. Bronfman , G. Carraro , M. Catelan , J. J. Clariá , N. Cross , R. de Grijs , I. Dékány , J. E. Drew , C. Fariña , C. Feinstein , E. Fernández Lajús , R. C. Gamen , D. Geisler , W. Gieren , B. Goldman , O. A. Gonzalez , G. Gunthardt , S. Gurovich , N. C. Hambly , M. J. Irwin , V. D. Ivanov , A. Jordán , E. Kerins , K. Kinemuchi , R. Kurtev , M. López-Corredoira , T. Maccarone , N. Masetti , D. Merlo , M. Messineo , I. F. Mirabel , L. Monaco , L. Morelli , N. Padilla , T. Palma , M. C. Parisi , G. Pignata , M. Rejkuba , A. Roman-Lopes , S. E. Sale , M. R. Schreiber , A. C. Schröder , M. Smith , L. Sodré , M. Soto , M. Tamura , C. Tappert , M. A. Thompson , I. Toledo , M. Zoccali

The VISTA Variables in the V\'ia L\'actea eXtended (VVVX) ESO public survey: Completion of the observations and legacy

The ESO public survey VISTA Variables in the V\'ia L\'actea (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…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-02 R. K. Saito , M. Hempel , J. Alonso-García , P. W. Lucas , D. Minniti , S. Alonso , L. Baravalle , J. Borissova , C. Caceres , A. N. Chené , N. J. G. Cross , F. Duplancic , E. R. Garro , M. Gómez , V. D. Ivanov , R. Kurtev , A. Luna , D. Majaess , M. G. Navarro , J. B. Pullen , M. Rejkuba , J. L. Sanders , L. C. Smith , P. H. C. Albino , M. V. Alonso , E. B. Amôres , R. Angeloni , J. I. Arias , M. Arnaboldi , B. Barbuy , A. Bayo , J. C. Beamin , L. R. Bedin , A. Bellini , R. A. Benjamin , E. Bica , C. J. Bonatto , E. Botan , V. F. Braga , D. A. Brown , J. B. Cabral , D. Camargo , A. Caratti o Garatti , J. A. Carballo-Bello , M. Catelan , C. Chavero , M. A. Chijani , J. J. Clariá , G. V. Coldwell , C. Contreras Peña , R. Contreras Ramos , J. M. Corral-Santana , C. C. Cortés , M. Cortés-Contreras , P. Cruz , I. V. Daza-Perilla , V. P. Debattista , B. Dias , L. Donoso , R. D'Souza , J. P. Emerson , S. Federle , V. Fermiano , J. Fernandez , J. G. Fernández-Trincado , T. Ferreira , C. E. Ferreira Lopes , V. Firpo , C. Flores-Quintana , L. Fraga , D. Froebrich , D. Galdeano , I. Gavignaud , D. Geisler , O. E. Gerhard , W. Gieren , O. A. Gonzalez , L. V. Gramajo , F. Gran , P. M. Granitto , M. Griggio , Z. Guo , S. Gurovich , M. Hilker , H. R. A. Jones , R. Kammers , M. A. Kuhn , M. S . N. Kumar , R. Kundu , M. Lares , M. Libralato , E. Lima , T. J. Maccarone , P. Marchant Cortés , E. L. Martin , N. Masetti , N. Matsunaga , F. Mauro , I. McDonald , A. Mejías , V. Mesa , F. P. Milla-Castro , J. H. Minniti , C. Moni Bidin , K. Montenegro , C. Morris , V. Motta , F. Navarete , C. Navarro Molina , F. Nikzat , J. L. Nilo Castellón , C. Obasi , M. Ortigoza-Urdaneta , T. Palma , C. Parisi , K. Pena Ramírez , L. Pereyra , N. Perez , I. Petralia , A. Pichel , G. Pignata , S. Ramírez Alegría , A. F. Rojas , D. Rojas , A. Roman-Lopes , A. C. Rovero , S. Saroon , E. O. Schmidt , A. C. Schröder , M. Schultheis , M. A. Sgró , E. Solano , M. Soto , B. Stecklum , D. Steeghs , M. Tamura , P. Tissera , A. A. R. Valcarce , C. A. Valotto , S. Vasquez , C. Villalon , S. Villanova , F. Vivanco Cádiz , R. Zelada Bacigalupo , A. Zijlstra , M. Zoccali

VVV DR1: The First Data Release of the Milky Way Bulge and Southern Plane from the Near-Infrared ESO Public Survey VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea

The ESO Public Survey VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) started in 2010. VVV targets 562 sq. deg in the Galactic bulge and an adjacent plane region and is expected to run for ~5 years. In this paper we describe the progress of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 R. K. Saito , M. Hempel , D. Minniti , P. W. Lucas , M. Rejkuba , I. Toledo , O. A. Gonzalez , J. Alonso-Garcia , M. J. Irwin , E. Gonzalez-Solares , S. T. Hodgkin , J. R. Lewis , N. Cross , V. D. Ivanov , E. Kerins , J. P. Emerson , M. Soto , E. B. Amores , S. Gurovich , I. Dekany , R. Angeloni , J. C. Beamin , M. Catelan , N. Padilla , M. Zoccali , P. Pietrukowicz , C. Moni Bidin , F. Mauro , D. Geisler , S. L. Folkes , S. E. Sale , J. Borissova , R. Kurtev , A. V. Ahumada , M. V. Alonso , A. Adamson , J. I. Arias , R. M. Bandyopadhyay , R. H. Barba , B. Barbuy , G. L. Baume , L. R. Bedin , A. Bellini , R. Benjamin , E. Bica , C. Bonatto , L. Bronfman , G. Carraro , A. N. Chene , J. J. Claria , J. R. A. Clarke , C. Contreras , A. Corvillon , R. de Grijs , B. Dias , J. E. Drew , C. Farina , C. Feinstein , E. Fernandez-Lajus , R. C. Gamen , W. Gieren , B. Goldman , C. Gonzalez-Fernandez , R. J. J. Grand , G. Gunthardt , N. C. Hambly , M. M. Hanson , K. G. Helminiak , M. G. Hoare , L. Huckvale , A. Jordan , K. Kinemuchi , A. Longmore , M. Lopez-Corredoira , T. Maccarone , D. Majaess , E. L. Martin , N. Masetti , R. E. Mennickent , I. F. Mirabel , L. Monaco , L. Morelli , V. Motta , T. Palma , M. C. Parisi , Q. Parker , F. Penaloza , G. Pietrzynski , G. Pignata , B. Popescu , M. A. Read , A. Rojas , A. Roman-Lopes , M. T. Ruiz , I. Saviane , M. R. Schreiber , A. C. Schroder , S. Sharma , M. D. Smith , L. Sodre , J. Stead , A. W. Stephens , M. Tamura , C. Tappert , M. A. Thompson , E. Valenti , L. Vanzi , N. A. Walton , W. Weidmann , A. Zijlstra

Galaxies behind the Galactic plane: First results and perspectives from the VVV Survey

Vista Variables in The Via Lactea (VVV) is an ESO variability survey that is performing observations in near infrared bands (ZYJHKs) towards the Galactic bulge and part of the disk with the completeness limits at least 3 mag deeper than…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 E. B. Amôres , L. Sodré , D. Minniti , M. V. Alonso , N. Padilla , S. Gurovich , V. Arsenijevic , E. J. Tollerud , A. Rodríguez-Ardila , J. Díaz Tello , P. W. Lucas

New galactic star clusters discovered in the VVV survey. Candidates projected on the inner disk and bulge

VISTA Variables in the V\'ia L\'actea (VVV) is one of six ESO Public Surveys using the 4 meter Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA). The VVV survey covers the Milky Way bulge and an adjacent section of the disk, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-09-17 J. Borissova , A. -N. Chené , S. Ramírez Alegría , Saurabh Sharma , J. R. A. Clarke , R. Kurtev , I. Negueruela , A. Marco , P. Amigo , D. Minniti , E. Bica , C. Bonatto , M. Catelan , C. Fierro , D. Geisler , M. Gromadzki , M. Hempel , M. M. Hanson , V. D. Ivanov , P. Lucas , D. Majaess , C. Moni Bidin , B. Popescu , R. K. Saito

A near-infrared stellar atlas of the Galactic plane from the VVVX survey

The VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea eXtended (VVVX) ESO public survey observed the Galactic plane and the outer Galactic bulge in the near-infrared to mitigate the effects of extinction that severely limit optical observations of these…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-28 Javier Alonso-García , Maren Hempel , Roberto K. Saito , Dante Minniti , Nicholas J. G. Cros , Jorge Anais , Jura Borissova , Márcio Catelan , José G. Fernández-Trincado , Elisa R. Garro , Zhen Guo , Philip W. Lucas , María G. Navarro , Casmir O. Obasi , Leigh C. Smith

New Galactic Star Clusters Discovered in the Disk Area of the VVVX Survey

The "VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea eXtended (VVVX)" ESO Public Survey is a near-infrared photometric sky survey that covers nearly 1700 sq. deg towards the Galactic disk and bulge. It is well-suited to search for new open clusters,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-07 J. Borissova , V. D. Ivanov , P. W. Lucas , R. Kurtev , J. Alonso-Garcia , S. Ramirez Alegria , D. Minniti , M. Hempel , N. Medina , A. N. Chene , M. A. Kuhn

A near-infrared catalogue of the Galactic novae in the VVV survey area

Near-IR data of Classical Novae contain useful information about the ejected gas mass and the thermal emission by dust formed during eruption, and provide independent methods to classify the objects according to the colour of their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 R. K. Saito , D. Minniti , R. Angeloni , M. Catelan , J. C. Beamin , J. Borissova , I. Dekany , E. Kerins , R. Kurtev , R. E. Mennickent

The VVV Infrared Variability Catalog (VIVA-I)

Thanks to the VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) ESO Public Survey it is now possible to explore a large number of objects in those regions. This paper addresses the variability analysis of all VVV point sources having more than 10…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 C. E. Ferreira Lopes , N. J. G. Cross , M. Catelan , D. Minniti , M. Hempel , P. W. Lucas , R. Angeloni , F. Jablonsky , V. F. Braga , I. C. Leao , F. R. Herpich , J. Alonso-Garcia , A. Papageorgiou , K. Pichara , R. K. Saito , A. Bradley , J. C. Beamin , C. Cortes , J. R. De Medeiros , Christopher. M. P. Russell

VVV survey near-infrared colour catalogue of known variable stars

Context. The Vista Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) near-infrared variability survey explores some of the most complex regions of the Milky Way bulge and disk in terms of high extinction and high crowding. Aims. We add a new wavelength…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-31 Fábio R. Herpich , Carlos E. Ferreira Lopes , Roberto K. Saito , Dante Minniti , Alessandro Ederoclite , Thiago S. Ferreira , Marcio Catelan

Hundreds of new cluster candidates in the VISTA variables in the Via Lactea survey DR1

VISTA variables in the Via Lactea is an ESO Public survey dedicated to scan the bulge and an adjacent portion of the Galactic disk in the fourth quadrant using the VISTA telescope and the near-infrared camera VIRCAM. One of the leading…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-23 R. H. Barba , A. Roman-Lopes , J. L. Nilo Castellon , V. Firpo , D. Minniti , P. Lucas , J. P. Emerson , M. Hempel , M. Soto , R. K. Saito

Proper motions and brown dwarfs with the VVV survey

The Vista Variables in the V\'ia L\'actea survey (VVV) is a near-IR ESO public survey devoted to study the Galactic bulge and southern inner disk covering 560 deg$^2$ on the sky. This multi-epoch and multi-wavelength survey has helped to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-05 J. C. Beamín , V. D. Valentin , R. Kurtev , M. Gromadzki , K. Peña Ramirez , D. Minniti

Milky Way demographics with the VVV survey. IV. PSF photometry from almost one billion stars in the Galactic bulge and adjacent southern disk

The inner regions of the Galaxy are severely affected by extinction, which limits our capability to study the stellar populations present there. The Vista Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) ESO Public Survey has observed this zone at…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-31 Javier Alonso-García , Roberto K. Saito , Maren Hempel , Dante Minniti , Joyce Pullen , Márcio Catelan , Rodrigo Contreras Ramos , Nicholas J. G. Cross , Oscar A. Gonzalez , Philip W. Lucas , Tali Palma , Elena Valenti , Manuela Zoccali

New Galactic Star Clusters Discovered in the VVV Survey

VISTA Variables in the V\'{\i}a L\'actea (VVV) is one of the six ESO Public Surveys operating on the new 4-meter Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA). VVV is scanning the Milky Way bulge and an adjacent section of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 Jura Borissova , Charles Bonatto , Radostin Kurtev , James R. A. Clarke , Francisco Peñaloza , Stuart E. Sale , Dante Minniti , Javier Alonso-García , Étienne Artigau , Rodolfo Barbá , Eduardo Bica , Gustavo Luis Baume , Márcio Catelan , André-Nicolas Chené , Bruno Dias , Stuart L. Folkes , Dirk Froebrich , Doug Geisler , Richard de Grijs , Margaret M. Hanson , Maren Hempel , Valentin D. Ivanov , M. S. Nanda Kumar , Philip Lucas , Francesco Mauro , Christian Moni Bidin , Marina Rejkuba , Roberto K. Saito , Motohide Tamura , Ignacio Toledo

VISTA Variables in the V\'ia L\'actea (VVV): Halfway Status and Results

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-13 Maren Hempel , Dante Minniti , István Dékány , Roberto K. Saito , Philip W. Lucas , Jim Emerson , Andrea V. Ahumada , Suzanne Aigrain , Maria Victoria Alonso , Javier Alonso-García , Eduardo B. Amôres , Rodolfo Angeloni , Julia Arias , Reba Bandyopadhyay , Rodolfo H. Barbá , Beatriz Barbuy , Gustavo Baume , Juan Carlos Beamin , Luigi Bedin , Eduardo Bica , Jordanka Borissova , Leonardo Bronfman , Giovanni Carraro , Márcio Catelan , Juan J. Clariá , Carlos Contreras , Nicholas Cross , Christopher Davis , Richard de Grijs , Janet E. Drew , Cecilia Fariña , Carlos Feinstein , Eduardo Fernández Lajús , Stuart Folkes , Roberto C. Gamen , Douglas Geisler , Wolfgang Gieren , Bertrand Goldman , Oscar González , Andrew Gosling , Guillermo Gunthardt , Sebastian Gurovich , Nigel C. Hambly , Margaret Hanson , Melvin Hoare , Mike J. Irwin , Valentin D. Ivanov , Andrés Jordán , Eamonn Kerins , Karen Kinemuchi , Radostin Kurtev , Andy Longmore , Martin López-Corredoira , Tom Maccarone , Eduardo Martín , Nicola Masetti , Ronald E. Mennickent , David Merlo , Maria Messineo , I. Félix Mirabel , Lorenzo Monaco , Christian Moni Bidin , Lorenzo Morelli , Nelson Padilla , Tali Palma , Maria Celeste Parisi , Quentin Parker , Daniela Pavani , Pawel Pietrukowicz , Grzegorz Pietrzynski , Giuliano Pignata , Marina Rejkuba , Alejandra Rojas , Alexandre Roman-Lopes , Maria Teresa Ruiz , Stuart E. Sale , Ivo Saviane , Matthias R. Schreiber , Anja C. Schröder , Saurabh Sharma , Michael Smith , Laerte Sodré , Mario Soto , Andrew W. Stephens , Motohide Tamura , Claus Tappert , Mark A. Thompson , Ignacio Toledo , Elena Valenti , Leonardo Vanzi , Walter Weidmann , Manuela Zoccali

Massive open star clusters using the VVV survey I. Presentation of the data and description of the approach

Context: The ESO Public Survey "VISTA Variables in the V\'ia L\'actea" (VVV) provides deep multi-epoch infrared observations for an unprecedented 562 sq. degrees of the Galactic bulge, and adjacent regions of the disk. Aims: The VVV…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 A. -N. Chené , J. Borissova , J. R. A. Clarke , C. Bonatto , D. J. Majaess , C. Moni Bidin , S. E. Sale , F. Mauro , R. Kurtev , G. Baume , C. Feinstein , V. D. Ivanov , D. Geisler , M. Catelan , D. Minniti , P. Lucas , R. de Grijs , M. S. N. Kumar

Milky Way Demographics with the VVV Survey II. Color Transformations and Near-Infrared Photometry for 136 Million Stars in the Southern Galactic Disk

The new multi-epoch near-infrared VVV survey (VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea) is sampling 562 sq. deg of the Galactic bulge and adjacent regions of the disk. Accurate astrometry established for the region surveyed allows the VVV data to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-05-28 M. Soto , R. Barba , G. Gunthardt , D. Minniti , P. Lucas , D. Majaess , M. Irwin , J. P. Emerson , E. Gonzalez-Solares , M. Hempel , R. K. Saito , S. Gurovich , A. Roman-Lopes , C. Moni-Bidin , M. V. Santucho , J. Borissova , R. Kurtev , I. Toledo , D. Geisler , M. Dominguez , J. C. Beamin