4th VVV Meeting 2013, Viña del Mar
21- 23 March, 2013 
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 many years, covering ~109 point sources across an area of 520 deg2, including 37 known globular and ~420 open clusters. During the Fourth VVV Meeting we will discuss the results of the first three years (2010-2013) 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
NEW! Registration is now closed
Registration for all participants must be made directly by email 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.
Financial support: We are able to provide financial support covering hosting at Hotel Best Western Marina del Rey for the participants presenting talks/posters. In this case your hotel reservation must be made directly at rsaito@astro.puc.cl before March 4. Please indicate in your email the Name, ID number (RUT / Passport), Nationality, and Check-in/out dates. Students: we are able to cover two nights in double room, check-in/-out on Thursday/Saturday. Faculty: we are able to cover single rooms. Please contact the LOC indicating the check-in/out dates.
The hosting at the hotel includes breakfast, lunch during the conference (Thursday and Friday), and the Conference Dinner.
Due to the vacation period in Chile during February, the registration deadline is now extended to March 10.
Accommodation
The Conference will be held at Hotel Best Western Marina del Rey, located in downtown Vina de Mar. Reservations must be made directly with the hotel, and the participants should mention they will participate in the “VVV Science Meeting” in order to get special prices. For any question about the reservations please contact:
E-mail: reservas.vina@marinahoteles.cl
Phone: +56 (32) 238-3000
Alternative accommodation options are available in Vina del Mar and nearby Valparaiso: [1] [2]
Important: In the case you are interested in Financial Support covering hosting at Hotel Best Western Marina del Rey, please do not contact the hotel directly. The proper reservation instructions are presented above at the section Registration.
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).
File source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Puente_Casino_-_Estero_Marga_Marga_-_ViJPEG3%B1a_del_Mar.JPG
Scientific Program (Preliminary)
Day 1, March 21 (Thursday)
10:00 – 11:00 → Registration, Coffee-Break & Poster Session
11:00 – 11:40 → Dante Minniti: Update on the VVV Survey
11:40 – 12:05 → Istvan Dekany: The VVV General Variability Database and Periodic Variable Star Catalog
12:05 – 12:30 → Roberto Saito: A Search for Galactic Novae in the Inner Bulge
12:30 – 14:00 → Lunch
14:00 – 14:25 → Rodolfo Barba: Hundreds of New Clusters in VVV: Insights into the High and Low Mass Ends of the Galactic Cluster Distribution
14:25 – 14:50 → Graeme Candish: Investigating the Christmas Tree: Structures in the Phase Space of Popping Star Clusters
14:50 – 15:10 → Coffee-Break & Poster Session
15:10 – 16:00 → Poster Presentations
Day 2, March 22 (Friday)
10:00 – 10:40 → Steve Majewski: Status of the APOGEE Project and Opportunities for VVV Synergy
10:40 – 11:05 → Roger Cohen: Globular Clusters in VVV: Status, Results, and Plans
11:05 – 11:35 → Coffee-Break & Poster Session
11:35 – 12:00 → Maren Hempel: Milky Way Globular Clusters and VVV- an Almost Perfect Match
12:00 – 12:25 → Eamonn Kerins via video link (TBD)
12:25 – 12:50 → Javier Alonso Garcia: Variable Stars in the Most Extinct Galactic Globular Clusters
12:50 – 14:30 → Lunch
14:30 – 14:55 → Alexandre Roman-Lopez: A Candidate Globular Cluster Behind the Milky Way
14:55 – 15:20 → Francesco Mauro: Results from the HB Survey of Bulge Globular Clusters in the VVV
15:20 – 15:45 → Krzysztof Helminiak: Eclipsing Binaries behind the Bulge
15:45 – 16:15 → Coffee-Break & Poster Session
16:15 – 16:40 → Mariuz Gromadzki: VVV High Proper Motion Survey
16:40 – 17:10 → Poster Presentations
17:10 – 18:00 → General Discussion I
20:30 – → Conference Dinner
Day 3, March 23 (Saturday)
10:00 – 10:40 → Licai Deng: Time-Domain Stellar Physics in SONG: The Plan and Current Status
10:40 – 11:05 → Istvan Dekany: Mapping the Metal-Poor Population of the Bulge with RR Lyrae
11:05 – 11:35 → Coffee-Break & Poster Session
11:35 – 11:50 → Sergio Vasquez: 3D Kinematics through the X-shaped Milky Way Bulge
11:50 – 12:50 → General Discussion II
13:00 – → Lunch
List of Posters
P01 → David Alarcon: Carbon Stars in the Galactic Bulge
P02 → Laura Baravalle: Deteccion de Galaxias detras del plano de la Via Lactea
P03 → Daniela Barrios: Identificacion de fuentes microlente OGLE en imagenes del relevamiento VVV
P04 → Juan Carlos Beamin: Proper motions in the VVV survey
P05 → Regis Cartier: Photometric and Astrometric Characterization of Variability QUEST–La Silla
P06 → Bruno Dias: Searching for RR Lyrae in HP1
P07 → Celia Rosa Fierro: Modelating atmospheres of young cluster members stars with CMFGEN
P08 → Felipe Gran: A search for high-amplitude variables in the VVV data
P09 → Felipe Gran: Digitizing IR light-curves for VVV Templates Project
P10 → Sebastian Gurovich: Making multiple epoch catalogs for VVV
P11 → Eliade Lima: Young Stellar Clusters in Nebular Complexs with VVV
P12 → Camila Navarrete: Near-IR light-curves from Omega Cen RR Lyrae stars
P13 → Claudio Navarro: Near-IR Templates from omega Centauri observations: Type II Cepheids and Eclipsing Binaries
P14 → Sebastian Ramirez: VVV open star clusters: New NIR spectroscopy for OB-type dwarf stars
P15 → Tiago Ribeiro: Near-infrared photometry of Low Accretion Rate Polars
P16 → Laura Saez: Measuring the mass of the Milky Way bulge
P17 → Maria Victoria Santucho: Possible structures of Sagittarius Stream behind the Milky Way Bulge
SOC and LOC
Local Organizing Committee (alphabetical): Javier Alonso-Garcia, Rodolfo Angeloni, Carmen Gloria Cordovez, Istvan Dekany, Krzysztof Helminiak, Maren Hempel, Roberto Saito, Mario Soto, Giselle Ulloa
Scientific Organizing Committee (alphabetical): Marcio Catelan, Jim Emerson, Douglas Geisler, Wolfgran Gieren, Valentin Ivanov, Dante Minniti, Veronica Motta, Marina Rejkuba, Alexandre Roman-Lopes, Manuela Zoccali
Registered
| First Name | Last Name | Institution | Country | Contribution | Title |
| David | Alarcon Flores | PUC-Chile | Chile | Poster | Carbon Stars in the Galactic Bulge |
| Maria Sol | Alonso | Instituto de Ciencias Astronomicas de la Tierra y el Espacio | Argentina | — | — |
| Javier | Alonso-Garcia | PUC-Chile | Chile | Talk | Variable Stars in the Most Extinct Galactic Globular Clusters |
| Pia | Amigo | Universidad de Valparaiso | Chile | — | — |
| Rodolfo | Angeloni | PUC-Chile | Chile | Poster | A first VVV glimpse of R CrB stars |
| Laura | Baravalle | IATE | Argentina | Poster | Deteccion de Galaxias detras del plano de la Via Lactea |
| Rodolfo | Barba | Univ. de La Serena | Chile | Talk | Hundreds of new clusters in VVV: insights into the high- and low-mass ends of the galactic cluster distribution |
| Daniela | Barrios | Universidad de Valparaiso | Chile | Poster | Identificacion de fuentes microlente OGLE en imagenes del relevamiento VVV |
| Juan Carlos | Beamin | PUC-Chile | Chile | Poster | Proper motions in the VVV survey |
| Graeme | Candlish | Universidad de Concepcion | Chile | Talk | Investigating the Christmas tree: structures in the phase space of popping star clusters |
| Regis | Cartier | Universidad de Chile | Chile | Poster | Photometric and Astrometric Characterization of Variability QUEST–La Silla |
| Marcio | Catelan | PUC-Chile | Chile | — | — |
| Roger | Cohen | Universidad de Concepcion | Chile | Talk | Globular Clusters in VVV: Status, Results and Plans |
| Georgina | Coldwell | ICATE – CONICET – UNSJ | Argentina | — | — |
| Rodrigo | Contreras | PUC-Chile | Chile | — | — |
| Istvan | Dekany | PUC-Chile | Chile | Talk | 1 – The VVV General Variability Database and Periodic Variable Star Catalog |
| Licai | Deng | Chinese Academy of Sciences | China | Talk | Time-Domain Stellar Physics in SONG: The plan and current status |
| Bruno | Dias | IAG-USP / ESO | Brazil / Chile | Poster | Searching for RR Lyrae in HP1 |
| Fernanda | Duplanic | ICATE-CONICET | Argentina | — | — |
| Celia Rosa | Fierro Santillan | Universidad de Valparaiso | Chile | Poster | Modelating atmospheres of young cluster members stars with CMFGEN |
| Felipe | Gran | PUC-Chile | Chile | Poster | 1 – A search for high-amplitude variables in the VVV data |
| Mariusz | Gromadzki | Universidad de Valparaiso | Chile | Talk | VVV high proper motion survey |
| Sebastian | Gurovich | Instituto Astronomico y Experimental (IATE) | Argentina | Poster | Making multiple epoch catalogs for VVV |
| Gergely | Hajdu | PUC-Chile | Chile | — | — |
| Krzysztof | Helminiak | PUC-Chile | Chile | Talk | Eclipsing Binaries behind the Bulge |
| Maren | Hempel | PUC-Chile | Chile | Talk | Milky Way Globular Clusters and VVV – an ALMOST perfect match |
| Daniela | Iglesias | PUC-Chile | Chile | — | — |
| Eliade | Lima | UFRGS | Brazil | Poster | Young Stellar Clusters in Nebular Complexs with VVV |
| Steve | Majewski | University of Virginia | USA | Talk | Status of the APOGEE Project and Opportunities for VVV Synergy |
| Francesco | Mauro | Universidad de Concepcion | Chile | Talk | Results from HB Survey of Bulge Globular Clusters in VVV |
| Andres | Meza | Universidad Andres Bello | Chile | — | — |
| Dante | Minniti | PUC-Chile | Chile | Talk | Update on the VVV survey |
| Veronica | Motta | Universidad de Valparaiso | Chile | — | — |
| Camilo | Munoz | PUC-Chile | Chile | — | — |
| Camila | Navarrete | PUC-Chile | Chile | Poster | Near-IR light-curves from Omega Cen RR Lyrae stars |
| Claudio | Navarro | PUC-Chile | Chile | Poster | Near-IR Templates from omega Centauri observations: Type II Cepheids and Eclipsing Binaries |
| Sebastian | Ramirez | Universidad de Valparaiso | Chile | Poster | VVV open star clusters: New NIR spectroscopy for OB-type dwarf stars |
| Tiago | Ribeiro | SOAR Telescope | Chile | Poster | Near-infrared photometry of Low Accretion Rate Polars |
| Alvaro | Rojas | PUC-Chile / Observatoire de la cote d’Azur | Chile / France | — | — |
| Karina | Rojas | Universidad de Valparaiso | Chile | — | — |
| Alexandre | Roman-Lopes | Univ. de La Serena | Chile | Talk | A candidate Globular Cluster behind the Milky-Way? |
| Laura | Saez | PUC-Chile | Chile | Poster | Measuring the mass of the Milky Way bulge |
| Roberto | Saito | PUC-Chile / Univ. de Valparaiso | Chile | Talk | A search for Galactic novae in the inner bulge |
| Maria Victoria | Santucho | Instituto Astronomico y Experimental (IATE) | Argentina | Poster | Possible structures of Sagittarius Stream behind the Milky Way Bulge |
| Sergio | Vasquez | PUC-Chile | Chile | Talk | 3D kinematics through the X-shaped Milky Way bulge |
| Nicolas | Viaux | PUC-Chile | Chile | — | — |
| Manuela | Zoccali | PUC-Chile | Chile | — | — |
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