VVV/VVVX

The VVVX Tile IDs

28 March, 201625 January, 2023 vvvsurvey

With more than a thousand tiles, VVVX expects to cover 150 deg across the Milky Way from longitude 230 to longitude 20 and an overlaping area of 20º x 24º in the Bulge between −10" < l < +10" and −14.5" < b < 9.5"

VVV-WIT-05: Nova or Supernova in the Milky Way?

25 March, 201625 March, 2016 vvvsurvey

ATel #8869; R. K. Saito (Universidade Federal de Sergipe), D. Minniti (Univ. Andres Bello, Millennium Institute of Astrophysics, Vatican Observatory), M. Catelan (Pontificia Univ. Catolica de Chile, Millennium Institute of Astrophysics), J. C. Beamin (Univ. de Valparaiso, Millennium Institute of Astrophysics), R. Contreras Ramos (Millennium Institute of Astrophysics, Pontificia Univ. Catolica de Chile) on 25 [...]

7th VVV Science Meeting

1 March, 201629 March, 2016 vvvsurvey

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Master theses on VVV

16 January, 201625 January, 2023 vvvsurvey

The Master program in astrophysics at Universidad de Valparaíso announces two graduated students using VVV data for variability and paralaxes; Nicolas Medina, supervised by prof. Jordanka Borissova and Vicente Villanueva, supervised by prof. Radostin Kurtev. Congratulations to Nicolás and Vicente, as both graduated summa cum laude. 0ther graduate thesis on VVV

7th VVV Science Workshop, Antofagasta, 29 Feb – 1 March, 2016

13 December, 201526 February, 2016 vvvsurvey

The 7th VVV Science Workshop will be held in the city of Antofagasta on February 29th and March 1st, 2016. SCIENTIFIC RATIONALE VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) is one of the six ESO Public Surveys for 4-meter VISTA Telescope. VVV is scanning the Milky Way bulge and an adjacent section of the midplane, [...]

What is this?

4 November, 20154 November, 2015 vvvsurvey

VVV-WIT-03 http://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=8244 The object is not detectable in observations (Ks band) between 2010 and 2013, then in 2014, the object appears badly saturated and after 325 days since the last observation, the object is marginally detected in the Ks band. This unclassified variable source from VVV survey had a increase of at least 7 magnitudes in [...]

Graduate Theses on VVV are posted!

29 October, 201525 January, 2023 vvvsurvey

visit their own individual posts at graduate thesis on VVV