Stellar Variability in the VVV Survey: An Update

M. Catelan; I. Dekany; M. Hempel; D. Minniti

Stellar Variability in the VVV Survey: An Update

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2014-06-27 v1

Authors: M. Catelan , I. Dekany , M. Hempel , D. Minniti

Abstract

The Vista Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) ESO Public Survey consists in a near-infrared time-series survey of the Galactic bulge and inner disk, covering 562 square degrees of the sky, over a total timespan of more than 5 years. In this paper, we provide an updated account of the current status of the survey, especially in the context of stellar variability studies. In this sense, we give a first description of our efforts towards the construction of the VVV Variable Star Catalog (VVV-VSC).

Keywords

astronomical catalogs

Cite

@article{arxiv.1406.6727,
  title  = {Stellar Variability in the VVV Survey: An Update},
  author = {M. Catelan and I. Dekany and M. Hempel and D. Minniti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.6727},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

10 pages, 6 figures. Invited review, to appear in BAAA (Boletin de la Asociacion Argentina de Astronomia)

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