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 [...]
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Very massive stars in not so massive clusters
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
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.
VVV members at “International Astronomical Union Symposium 353: Galactic Dynamics in the Era of Large Surveys” in Shanghai, July 1-5, 2019
Gabriela Navarro, Dante Minniti y Javier Minniti Also Victor P. Debattista, Ortwin Gerhard and Pawel Pietrukowicz attended the conference.
10th VVV Science Meeting · Hawaii, August 19 to 22, 2019.
MAHALO to André-Nicholas Chené, Terry Lee and all the people at GEMINI Aloha Kakou! We are pleased to invite you to the 10th VVV Science Meeting. Our next meeting will take place in Hilo, Hawaii, U.S.A., from August 19 to 22, 2019. More information about the meeting can be found at https://www.gemini.edu/vvv-science-meeting/10thmeeting The VVV Meeting in [...]
Juan Bautista Cabral PhD in Informatics using VVV data
An outstanding thesis by Juan Bautista Cabral, obtaining Magna Cum Laude on: Analysis and design of astrophysical data mining processes on multiple epoch photometric catalogs March 25, 2019 Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina Advisors Pablo Granitto (CIFACIS-CONICET-UNR) Sebastián Gurovich (IATE-OAC-CONICET-UNC) Committee: Ana Magitman (Universidad Nacional del Sur (Bahia Blanca) - CONICET) Georgina Coldwell (UNSJ-CONICET) Hugo [...]
Caddy Cortés Santana PhD thesis on VVV
Congratulations to Dr. Caddy Cortés on her extraordinary work on: Search for Exoplanetary Transits in the Galactic Bulge March 5th, 2019 Concepción Committee: Dante MinnitiSandro VillanovaChristian Moni Bidin
Sergio Vasquez PhD thesis on VVV and GIBS
Congratulations to Dr. Sergio Vásquez Godoy for his outstanding work on: "Structure, Kinematics and Metallicity of the Galactic Bulge" March 31, 2017 - Santiago, Chile Committee: Manuela Zoccali - Advisor Ivo Saviane - co Advisor René Méndez Julio Chanamé Wishing you a long and prosper career!