1st KMOS VVVX-GalCen Spectroscopic Survey Workshop

The KMOS VVVX-GalCen Spectroscopic Survey

The Galactic ESO KMOS public survey

PIs Matias Gomez, (Universidad Andres Bello – Santiago, Chile)  & Francisco Nogueras-Lara (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC) – Granada, Spain)

The KMOS VVVX-GalCen Spectroscopic Survey aims to build up on two very successful observational efforts: the wide-area, multi-epoch VVV/VVVX near-infrared survey and the high-resolution GALACTICNUCLEUS imaging of the innermost regions of the Galaxy. This is a diverse multipurpose survey aiming to serve the wider astronomical community. Its scientific objectives are to characterise eruptive young stellar objects and their environments across the southern disc, identify and measure the physical parameters for Galactic globular clusters hidden by extinction, confirm and measure nearby free-floating planets and brown dwarfs, characterise numerous young massive star clusters across the Galactic disc, classify nearby and distant galaxies and galaxy clusters in the zone of avoidance, revealing the large scale structure in the background and to conduct the first high-completeness spectroscopic study of the Galactic centre, revealing its star formation history, dynamics and structure.

---

PROGRAMME

Friday 12 December
09:30 Welcome by UNAB Authorities
09:40 Matias Gómez: The KMOS VVVX-GalCen ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey: SMP and news
10:00 Paco Nogueras-Lara: GalCen news (zoom)
10:20 Javier Alonso-García: Deep VVVX photometry as a Gateway to High-Value Spectroscopic Targets
10:40 Dante Minniti: Synergy with the Roman GPS

11:00 MORNING COFFEE

11:20 Calum Morris: A statistical look at YSO variability in Carina, with a view towards the KMOS pathfinder
11:40 Daniela Galdeano: Morphological and environmental classification of galaxies in the ZOA. KMOS targets
12:00 Carolina Villalon: VVV NIRGC by-products: an offering to the community
12:20 Laura Baravalle: Revealing the extragalactic estructure in the Zone of Avoidance
12:40 Casmir Obasi: KMOS spectroscopy of Globular Cluster candidates in Circinus

13:00 LIGHT LUNCH AT UNAB

14:00 Jose Nilo Castellon: The DeepNIRGC Program: The Faint-End Galaxy Population Hidden in the Zone of Avoidance
14:20 Maria Gabriela Navarro: Probing YSOs with JWST: Insights from PROJECT-J and the H₂ Shocked Outflow in HH 46
14:40 Elisa Garro: Spectroscopic and photometric characterisation of the newly discovered metal-rich bulge globular cluster Patchick 126
15:00 Jose Fernandez-Trincado: Mapping Galactic Orbits with the VVVX-GalCen Survey (zoom)
15:20 Roberto K. Saito: Looking for a recipe for the VVVX-GalCen observations
15:40 Jesus Corral-Santana: Practical session on KARMA/P2

16:20 AFTERNOON COFFEE

16:40 Group discussion: OBs creation/planning, training sessions, all-hands tasks, etc.
17:30 Wrapping up

19:00 DINNER (at Dante’s place, please lest us know ASAP if you’re able to join)