Vatican Observatory, 09-13 October 2023

REGISTRATION IS CLOSED

PROGRAM:

Updated Sept 11, 2023

“THE VVVX SURVEY EXPLOITATION AND FUTURE INFRARED SYNOPTIC SCIENCE”

WORKSHOP AT THE VATICAN OBSERVATORY, CASTELGANDOLFO, ITALY

09-13 OCTOBER 2023

SCOPE: 

The VVV/VVVX survey has been monitoring the inner Milky Way with sub-arcsec spatial resolution in near-IR bands for 13 years, and generating 50-200 epoch light curves of hundreds of millions of sources down to Ks~17 mag. This database allows to probe the structure and the evolution of the most obscured part of our galaxy. This is the first survey in the near-IR to cover nearly 80% of the luminous Milky Way mass in such depth and with such unprecedented number of epochs. The goal of the Workshop is to bring together active VVVX Science Team members and collaborators, giving them the opportunity to present their results, to work intensively on the ongoing projects, and to plan future collaborations and follow up studies.

This Workshop will focus on the following main themes: 

• Photometry and Astrometry
• Galactic Structure, Extinction Maps and Windows 
• Star Clusters and Stellar Populations
• Variable Stars and Transients
• YSOs and Exoplanets
• Galaxies and QSOs
• VVVX Legacy and Future Plans

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Phil Lucas, Dante Minniti (Chairs), Valentin D. Ivanov, Gabriela Navarro, Joyce Pullen, Roberto Saito.

FORMAT: 

• The whole Workshop will take place at the Specola Vaticana, in Albano/Castelgandolfo, Italy. 
• There will be daily invited talks with a short coffee break in the mornings. 
• The afternoons are reserved for group and panel discussions. 
• There is a registration fee of us$100.