The 3rd VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea Science Meeting will be held at Vina del Mar, Chile, 22-24 March 2012
Scientific Rationale
VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) is one of the six ESO Public Surveys selected to operate with the new 4-meter VISTA Telescope. VVV is scanning the Milky Way bulge and an adjacent section of the midplane, where star formation activity is high. The survey will take 1929 hours of observations during five years (2010–2014), covering ~109 point sources across an area of 520 deg2, including 33 known globular and ~420 open clusters. During the Third VVV Meeting we will discuss the results of the first two years of the VVV Survey as well as to plan the strategies for the next years. The Meeting is being planned to include contributed talks, poster sessions and plenary discussions.
Topics
- Interstellar Medium
- Stellar Populations
- Pulsating Variables
- Nearby Stars and BDs
- Main Belt Asteroids and TNOs
- Galaxies in the Avoidance Zone
- Quasars and AGNs
- Galactic Structure
- Eclipsing Binaries
- Star Clusters and SFRs
Registration
Registration for all participants must be made directly by email to rsaito@astro.puc.cl. Please include your First and Last Name, Institution, Country and in the case you are planning to contribute with a talk or poster, please send us an informative title. The registration is now closed.
Important updates:
Deadline: Since the Chilean universities are officially in vacations during February, we are extending the deadline for registration to March 4.
Financial support: We are able to provide financial support covering two nights at Hotel San Martin (double room, check-in/-out on Thursday/Saturday) for a limited number of students and participants presenting talks/posters. In any case you must proceed with the hotel reservation according with the instructions present below.
Accommodation
The Conference will be held at Hotel San Martin, situated across the street from the beach and enclosed in the gastronomical heart of Vina de Mar. Reservations must be made directly at the hotel before February 24, 2012, and the participants should mention they will participate in the “VVV Science Meeting” in order to get special prices. After February 24 the hotel does not guarantee the availability of rooms for the participants. For any question about the reservations please contact:
Alternative accommodation options are available in Vina del Mar and nearby Valparaiso: [1] [2]
Traveling to Vina del Mar
The International Airport of Santiago (code SCL), officially called Arturo Merino Benitez, is located on the outskirts of Santiago. Public transport is available between the airport and downtown Santiago, with options including buses, minibuses and taxis. We highly recommend using the official transport offered by Santiago airport. Further information can be found at http://www.aeropuertosantiago.cl/. Those who wish to travel directly from the airport to Vina del Mar can take a bus (details at the link above) or taxi to Estacion Pajaritos, from there you can catch a bus to Vina del Mar. Alternatively, if you arrive on a LAN flight it is possible to book a direct transfer from the airport to Vina. This journey must be booked in advance with LAN and is apparently not available to passengers arriving on other airlines (http://www.lan.com/asociados/informacion/datos_uso_diario/buses_vina.html).
Vina del Mar
Vina del Mar is a Chilean commune and coastal city in Valparaiso Province, 120km from Santiago. Vina is also known as La Ciudad Jardin (“The Garden City”) for displaying big green areas. It has precious beaches, with long avenues that limit with the ocean. During March the average temperature in Vina del Mar ranges from 12C (54F) to 21C (70F) with little rain, ~2 mm/month. A regular bus service connects Vina to Santiago every 10-20min during the day. (see turbus or pullman bus).
Scientific Program (pdf)
Day 1, March 22
09:40 – 10:20 → Registration
10:20 – 11:00 → Coffee-Break & Poster Session
Session I, Chair: Marcio Catelan
11:00 – 11:10 → Welcome, Marcio Catelan (PUC – Chile)
11:10 – 11:40 → VISTA’s status, Jim Emerson (Queen Mary, University of London)
11:40 – 12:00 → Updates from CASU, Nicholas Walton (Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge)
12:00 – 12:20 → Updates from WFAU, Nicholas Cross (Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh)
12:20 – 14:00 → Lunch
Session II, Chair: Wolfgang Gieren
14:00 – 14:20 → Updates from the VVV Templates Project, Rodolfo Angeloni (PUC-Chile)
14:20 – 14:40 → Active learning for light curves classification, Cristobal Berger (PUC-Chile)
14:40 – 15:00 → Reference image selection for difference imaging analysis, Leo Huckvale (Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, University of Manchester)
15:00 – 15:30 → Coffee-Break & Poster Session
Session III, Chair: Sebastian Gurovich
15:30 – 15:45 → Variable Star Catalogue from WFCAM: Multicolor Light Curves of RR-Lyraes and Eclipsing Binaries, Carlos Eduardo Lopes (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte / PUC-Chile)
15:45 – 16:00 → Tracing the structure of the Galaxy with detached eclipsing binaries, Krzysztof Helminiak (PUC-Chile)
16:00 – 16:30 → Plenary Discussion 01
19:00 – 20:00 → Public Talk: Vida y Muerte de una Estrella, Javier Alonso-Garcia (PUC-Chile)
20:30 – → Cocktail
Day 2, March 23
Session IV, Chair: Radostin Kurtev
09:00 – 09:20 → VVV-SkZ_pipeline: Updates and first scientific results, Francesco Mauro (Universidad de Concepcion / Gemini Observatory South)
09:20 – 09:40 → Globular clusters in the VVV, Christian Moni Bidin (Universidad de Concepcion)
09:40 – 10:00 → Properties of the Galactic globular clusters in the VVV survey, Javier Alonso-Garcia (PUC-Chile)
10:00 – 10:20 → POSTER ADVERTS
10:20 – 11:00 → Coffee-Break & Poster Session
Session V, Chair: Jura Borissova
11:00 – 11:20 → The Integrated Near-Infrared Luminosity of Globular Clusters in the Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds, Maren Hempel (PUC-Chile)
11:20 – 11:40 → The Search for Stellar Clusters in the VVV Survey, Bogdan Popescu (University of Cincinnati)
11:40 – 12:00 → Detection of OB associations in the VVV catalogues, Mario Soto (Universidad de La Serena)
12:00 – 12:20 → The RCW106 HII complex as seem from the VVV survey: constraining the hipotesys of sequential star formation induced by gravitational spiral waves, Alexandre Roman Lopes (Universidad de La Serena)
12:20 – 14:00 → Lunch
Session VI, Chair: Carlos Feinstein
14:00 – 14:20 → A first look at variability in star formation regions with VVV, Philip Lucas (University of Hertfordshire)
14:20 – 14:40 → Porting the Ca triplet method to the near-IR, Ivo Saviane (ESO)
14:40 – 15:00 → The first confirmed microlensing event in a globular cluster, Pawel Pietrukowicz (Warsaw University Observatory)
15:00 – 15:30 → Coffee-Break & Poster Session
Session VII, Chair: Dante Minniti
15:30 – 15:45 → Search for debris disks in the VVV field, Roberto Saito (PUC-Chile)
15:45 – 16:00 → Presentation of the new VVV website, Andre-Nicolas Chene (Univ. de Concepcion / Univ. de Valparaiso)
16:00 – 16:30 → Plenary Discussion 02
21:00 – → Conference Dinner
Day 3, March 24
Session VIII, Chair: Nelson Padilla
09:00 – 09:20 → Search for Companions to High Proper Motion Stars with the VVV Survey, Valentin Ivanov (ESO)
09:20 – 09:40 → Gaia Science Alerts and VVV, Nadia Blagorodnova (Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge)
09:40 – 10:00 → Introducing BEAM: a VVV based Bulge Extinction and Metallicity calculator, Oscar Gonzalez (ESO)
10:00 – 10:20 → The inner Milky Way bulge structure traced by the VVV survey, Marina Rejkuba (ESO)
10:20 – 11:00 → Coffee-Break & Poster Session
Session IX, Chair: Veronica Motta
11:00 – 11:20 → A thousand galaxies in Vista Variables in the Via Lactea, Eduardo Amores (Laboratorio Nacional de Astrofisica)
11:20 – 11:40 → Plenary Discussion 03
11:40 – 12:00 → The VVV Survey: An Outlook, Dante Minniti (PUC-Chile)
Posters
P01 → Infrarred study of embebed clusters at l =345deg, Gustavo Baume & Carlos Feinstein, Facultad de Ciencias Astronomicas y Geofisicas, UNLP
P02 → Pursuing RRLyrae template lightcurves in the globular clusters M62, Juan Carlos Beamin (PUC-Chile)
P03 → Buidling an large, homogenous catalog of open clusters with VVV, Andre-Nicolas Chene (Univ. de Concepcion / Univ. de Valparaiso)
P04 → Getting a vista of the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical with the VVV, Sebastian Gurovich (IATE, Cordoba)
P05 → The First VVV-WISE Brown Dwarf Candidates, Radostin Kurtev (Universidad de Valparaiso)
P06 → Period-Luminosity relations for delta Scuti star, Camila Navarrete (PUC-Chile)
P07 → Exploring the variable sky with LINEAR, Lovro Palaversa (University of Geneva)
P08 → IR Light Curve of BL Cam using BOAO in Korea: The Preliminary result of VVV light curve templates, Janghee Han (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute)
Participants
Last update on 08.mar.2012
| First Name | Last Name | Institution | Country | Contribution | Title |
| Javier | Alonso-Garcia | PUC-Chile | Chile | Talk | Properties of the Galactic globular clusters in the VVV survey |
| Eduardo | Amores | Laboratorio Nacional de Astrofisica | Brazil | Talk | A thousand galaxies in Vista Variables in the Via Lactea |
| Rodolfo | Angeloni | PUC-Chile | Chile | Talk | Updates from the VVV Templates Project |
| Rodolfo | Barba | Universidad de La Serena | Chile | — | — |
| Gustavo | Baume | Facultad de Ciencias Astronomicas y Geofisicas, UNLP | Argentina | Poster | Infrarred Study of embebed clusters at l=345deg |
| Juan Carlos | Beamin | PUC-Chile | Chile | Poster | Pursuing RRLyrae template lightcurves in the globular clusters M62 |
| Cristobal | Berger | PUC-Chile | Chile | Talk | Active learning for light curves classification |
| Nadia | Blagorodnova | Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge | UK | Talk | Gaia Science Alerts and VVV |
| Jura | Borissova | Universidad de Valparaiso | Chile | — | — |
| Claudio | Caceres | Universidad de Valparaiso | Chile | — | — |
| Giovanni | Carraro | ESO | Chile | — | — |
| Marcio | Catelan | PUC-Chile | Chile | — | — |
| Andre-Nicolas | Chene | Universidad de Concepcion / Universidad de Valparaiso | Chile | Talk | Presentation of the new VVV website |
| Poster | Buidling an large, homogenous catalog of open clusters with VVV | ||||
| Nicholas | Cross | Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh | UK | Talk | Updates from WFAU |
| Istvan | Dekany | PUC-Chile | Chile | Talk | VVV followup of microlensed sources |
| Poster | NIR template light curves from globular clusters | ||||
| Jim | Emerson | Queen Mary, University of London | UK | Talk | VISTA’s status |
| Carlos | Feinstein | Facultad de Ciencias Astronomicas y Geofisicas, UNLP | Argentina | Poster | Infrarred Study of embebed clusters at l=345deg |
| Wolfgang | Gieren | Universidad de Concepcion | Chile | — | — |
| Oscar | Gonzalez | ESO | Germany | Talk | Introducing BEAM: a VVV based Bulge Extinction and Metallicity calculator |
| Sebastian | Gurovich | IATE, Cordoba | Argentina | Poster | Getting a vista of the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical with the VVV |
| Krzysztof | Helminiak | PUC-Chile | Chile | Talk | Tracing the structure of the Galaxy with detached eclipsing binaries |
| Maren | Hempel | PUC-Chile | Chile | Talk | The Integrated Near-Infrared Luminosity of Globular Clusters in the Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds |
| Leo | Huckvale | Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, University of Manchester | UK | Talk | Reference image selection for difference imaging analysis |
| Valentin | Ivanov | ESO | Chile | Talk | Search for Companions to High Proper Motion Stars with the VVV Survey |
| Radostin | Kurtev | Universidad de Valparaiso | Chile | Poster | The First VVV-WISE Brown Dwarf Candidates |
| Eliade | Lima | Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul | Brazil | — | — |
| Paul | Leyton | PUC-Chile | Chile | — | — |
| Carlos Eduardo | Lopes | Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte / PUC-Chile | Brazil / Chile | Talk | Variable Star Catalogue from WFCAM: Multicolor Light Curves of RR-Lyraes and Eclipsing Binaries |
| Philip | Lucas | University of Hertfordshire | UK | Talk | A first look at variability in star formation regions with VVV |
| Francesco | Mauro | Universidad de Concepcion / Gemini Observatory South | Chile | Talk | VVV-SkZ_pipeline: Updates and first scientific results |
| Dante | Minniti | PUC-Chile | Chile | Talk | A Status Report on the VVV Survey |
| Javier | Minniti | FaMAF, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba | Argentina | — | — |
| Christian | Moni Bidin | Universidad de Concepcion | Chile | Talk | Globular clusters in the VVV |
| Veronica | Motta | Universidad de Valparaiso | Chile | — | — |
| Martin | Moyano | Observatorio Astronomico Cordoba | Argentina | — | — |
| Camila | Navarrete | PUC-Chile | Chile | Poster | Period-Luminosity relations for delta Scuti star |
| Claudio | Navarro | PUC-Chile | Chile | Poster | TBD |
| Boris | Ormeno | Universidad de Valparaiso | Chile | — | — |
| Nelson | Padilla | PUC-Chile | Chile | — | — |
| Lovro | Palaversa | University of Geneva | Switzerland | Poster | Exploring the variable sky with LINEAR |
| Francisco | Penaloza | Universidad de Valparaiso | Chile | — | — |
| Pawel | Pietrukowicz | Warsaw University Observatory | Poland | Talk | The first confirmed microlensing event in a globular cluster |
| Bogdan | Popescu | University of Cincinnati | USA | Talk | The Search for Stellar Clusters in the VVV Survey |
| Marina | Rejkuba | ESO | Germany | Talk | The inner Milky Way bulge structure traced by the VVV survey |
| Alejandra | Rojas | PUC-Chile | Chile | — | — |
| Alvaro | Rojas | PUC-Chile | Chile | — | — |
| Alexandre | Roman Lopes | Universidad de La Serena | Chile | Talk | The RCW106 HII complex as seem from the VVV survey: constraining the hipotesys of sequential star formation induced by gravitational spiral waves |
| Roberto | Saito | PUC-Chile | Chile | Talk | Search for debris disks in the VVV field |
| Ivo | Saviane | ESO | Chile | Talk | Porting the Ca triplet method to the near-IR |
| Mario | Soto | Universidad de La Serena | Chile | Talk | Detection of OB associations in the VVV catalogues |
| Gabriel | Torrealba | PUC-Chile | Chile | — | — |
| Sergio | Vasquez | PUC-Chile | Chile | — | — |
| Nicholas | Walton | Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge | UK | Talk | Updates from CASU |
SOC and LOC
Local Organizing Committee: Radostin Kurtev (Chair), Roberto Saito, Jura Borissova, Joyce Pullen, Maren Hempel, Javier Alonso-Garcia, Rodolfo Angeloni, Istvan Dekany, Krzysztof Helminiak
Science Organizing Committee: Marcio Catelan (Chair), Dante Minniti, Phil Lucas, Rodolfo Barba, Jura Borissova, Jim Emerson, Doug Geisler, Valentin Ivanov, Radostin Kurtev, Marina Rejkuba