Author: vvvsurvey

VVVX

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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.

Andrea Mejías, PhD Thesis on VVVX 2022

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Congratulations to Andrea Mejías for her work 'M Dwarfs in The VVVX Survey: A Census of Low Mass Stars, Brown Dwarfs and Free Floating Planets in The Southern Galactic Plane', that to her PhD at Universidad Andrés Bello, Chile Advisor: Dante Minniti, UNAB Andrea Mejías during her thesis presentation. Dr. Mejías along her advisor Prof. [...]

Éverton Botan, PhD Thesis on VVV 2021

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Congratulations to Éverton Botan for his work 'Identification of variable stars in the VVV and investigation of structures in the Galactic bulge', that led to his PhD at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil. Advisor: Roberto K. Saito, UFSC Dr. Botan at his thesis defense along his advisor Prof. Roberto Saito, co-advisor Prof. Antônio [...]

5000+ new galaxies in the MW disk

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Location of the 5000+ new galaxies unveiled behind MW's ZoA by Laura Baravalle and María Victoria Alonso from Instituto de Astronomía Teórica y Experimental (IATE), Córdoba, Argentina Although the VVV Survey and eXtended VVVX are ment to study variability in the Milky Way most crowded area, the bulge and disk, the team, leaded by Laura [...]

VVV-WIT-08: the giant star that blinked

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Leigh C. Smith et al. ‘VVV-WIT-08: the giant star that blinked.’ Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2021). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab1211 https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/astronomers-spot-a-blinking-giant-near-the-centre-of-the-galaxy ©University of Cambridge  VVV-WIT-08 The Giant that BlinkedAn international team leaded by Dr. Leigh Smith from Cambridge’s Institute of Astronomy, with astronomers from Britain, Poland, Chile, Brazil and Germany discovered this star that showed [...]

Very massive stars in not so massive clusters

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Seungkyung Oh and Pavel Kroupa Following André-Nicolas Chene et al. "Massive open star clusters using the VVV survey, IV. WR 62-2, a new very massive star in the core of the VVV CL041 cluster" Oh and Kroupa study the very massive star, WR62-2 ~80Msun, that violates the mmax– Mecl relation that predicts a mass up [...]

Gergely Hajdu’s PhD thesis on VVV

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Congratulations to Dr. Gergely Hajdu on his extraordinary work on: "Structure of the Obscured Galactic Disk with Pulsating Variables" August 7th, 2019 Santiago Committee: Márcio Catelan (UC), profesor guía;Eva K. Grebel (U.Heidelberg) profesora co-guía;  Mario Trieloff (U.Heidelberg), profesor corrector; Thomas Puzia (UC), profesor correctorManuela Zoccali (UC), profesora correctora.