Registration 12th VVV Science Meeting

VVV at Tecnociencia S3E10

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On 2013, Andrea Obaid and Cristian Campos, partners at the tv show Tecnociencia, casted the 10th episode of the 3rd season of their program. The first part was about astronomy; the VVV Survey and the VISTA telescope at Paranal, and about the planet hunting done from Chile, in which they interview Dante Minniti, our P.I. [...]

eso1542 — Science Release 28 October 2015

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VISTA Discovers New Component of Milky Way Astronomers using the VISTA telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory have discovered a previously unknown component of the Milky Way. By mapping out the locations of a class of stars that vary in brightness called Cepheids, a disc of young stars buried behind thick dust clouds in the central [...]

observations completed!

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Progress of VVV observations 17.10.2015 As of October 17, 2015 the observations for VVV are complete. Run 179B.2002(B): YZJHK + 5 Ks-epochs for Bulge & Disk 300 hours, completed Run 179B.2002(C): 12 additional Ks-epochs for all Bulge tiles, 8 more Ks-epochs for the Disk tiles 292 hours, competed Run 179B.2002(D): Bulge in Ks only, selected [...]

VVV Survey at Rainbows on the Southern Sky

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An ESO workshop about the science and legacy value of the ESO Public Surveys and Large Programmes Oct. 5-9, 2015 - Garching More information on http://www.eso.org/sci/meetings/2015/Rainbows2015.html VVV Science Team members at Rainbows: Marina Rejkuba (Rainbows SOC co-chair) Elena Valenti Oscar González Rudy Kurtev (talk) Phil Lucas (talk) Wolfgang Gieren (talk) Manuela Zoccalli (talk) Valentin Ivanov Nicholas [...]

VVV Survey at XXIX IAU GA

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At the XXIX IAU General Assembly, 2015 in Hawaii, we were engaged in the Millennium Institute of Astrophysics Booth, where we were able to be seen by some of the 2500 assistants. The way in which we represented some of our work was  through on-screen movies and slideshows, were some magnificent and unique images were [...]