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, where star formation activity is high. The survey will take 1929 hours of observations during seven years (2010–2016), covering ~109 point sources across an area of 520 deg2, including 33 known globular and ~420 open clusters. During the Fifth VVV Science Meeting we will discuss the results of the first four 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.
Registration
There is no registration fee, but advanced registration for the workshop is required. Registration is now CLOSED, team members are accepted inmediatly, others have to wait for a reply from the committee after filling the Registration Form.
Scientific Program
The final program is posted at the bottom of the page.
Venue
The meeting will be held at Hotel Radisson Con-Con, Av. Borgoño 23.333, Concón, V Región de Valparaíso, Chile. Hotel costs will be covered by the organization. The organization is covering the stay for Thursday and Friday nights (except for V Region locals), and all the meals for all attendants to the conference.
http://www.radisson.cl/pages/radisson-concon-reuniones-y-eventos
NOTES
- Let us know if you have any special menu requirements (vegetarian, vegan, celiac)
- If you are registered with guests, you will be charged about USD10 extra per night plus meals (USD 25 each, paid in advance – also we need to inform the hotel about meals before March 20, so please let us know asap)
- Transportation will be provided from Viña del Mar bus terminal to the Venue. A free van service will be driving back and forth between the bus terminal and the hotel in Concón from 9:00AM until 11:30AM on Thursday morning. So if you arrive to Viña by bus, look around the bus terminal for a maroon Kia Carnival with a VVV sign on it. Note that it can take 30-45 minutes for the van to make the trip back and forth, depending on traffic. If you don´t want to wait, you can take a taxi there but the trip can be expensive (more than CLP20000), so we suggest you share the ride with other people attending the conference. If you live in Valparaiso, the free van service will be available during the days of the meeting to take you in the morning and drive you back in the evening, so you do not need to look for alternative transportation, although we have been told the bus lines 602 and 603 (que vayan por la costa) also stop close to the hotel.
Registered
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Program
Thursday, April 3rd
10:00 – 11:30 – Coffee and registration
11:30 – 11:50 – Invited: Dante Minniti (PUC, Chile)
The VVV Survey: Past, Present and Future
11:50 – 12:20 – Istvan Dékány (PUC, Chile)
VVV Unleashed:The VVV Variable Star Catalog First Release
12:20 – 12:45 – Invited: Roberto Saito (Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Brazil)
Variability in the Galactic Bulge with VVV
12:45 – 2:30 – Lunch
2:30 – 3:00 – Invited: Nicholas Cross (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Current status of WFAU processing of VVV
3:00 – 3:20 – Carlos González Fernández (University of Cambridge, UK)
CASU reduction of VVV images
3:20 – 3:40 – Invited: Manuela Zoccali (PUC, Chile)
The Giraffe Inner Bulge Survey
3:40 – 4:00 – Oscar Gonzalez (ESO, Chile)
The metallicity distribution of the Bulge
4:00 – 4:30 – Coffee
4:30 – 5:00 – Invited: Elena Valenti (ESO, Germany)
Measuring the mass of the Bulge from the VVV photometry
5:00 – 5:20 – Alvaro Rojas-Arriagada (Observatoire de la Còte d’Azur, France)
Structure, metallicity, and kinematics in the MW bulge from VVV + Gaia-ESO survey
5:20 – 5:40 – Juan Carlos Beamín (PUC, Chile)
Proper motions and low mass stars in the VVV
5:40 – 6:10 – Demonstration on some new features of WFAU
by Nicholas Cross
Friday, April 4th
10:00 – 10:25 – Invited: Magda Arnaboldi (ESO, Germany)
Public Surveys at ESO
10:25 – 10:55 – Invited: Bogdan Popescu (University of Cincinnati, USA)
VVV Stellar Clusters Described by 10 Million MASSCLEAN Monte Carlo simulations
10:55 – 11:15 – Roger Cohen (Universidad de Concepción, Chile)
Photometric and Structural Parameters of Globular Clusters in VVV
11:15 – 11:45 – Coffee
11:45 – 12:05 – Francesco Mauro (Universidad de Concepción, Chile)
Interesting results from deriving metallicities using calcium triplet spectroscopy
in combination with near-infrared photometry
12:05 – 12:25 – Javier Alonso-García (PUC,Chile)
Variability in the globular clusters surveyed by the VVV
12:25 – 12:45 – Camila Navarrete (PUC, Chile)
Near-IR Period-Luminosity Relations for variable stars in omega Centauri
12:45 – 2:30 – Lunch
2:30 – 3:00 – Invited: Jim Emerson (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
VISTA’s other surveys
3:00 – 3:20 – Valentin Ivanov (ESO, Chile)
Quasar search with the VMC, the other VISTA survey of nearby galaxies
3:20 – 3:40 – Eduardo Martín (CSIC-INTA Centro de Astrobiología)
Euclid and VVV
3:40 – 4:00 – Eliade Lima (UFSM, Brazil)
New projects with VVV
4:00 – 4:30 – Coffee
4:30 – 4:50 – Jesús Corral-Santana (PUC, Chile)
Searching for X-ray binaries within the VVV survey
4:50 – 5:10 – Carlos Contreras (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
Extreme Infrared Variables in Star Forming Regions
5:10 – 5:30 – Carlos Eduardo Ferreira Lopes (UFRN, Brazil)
Variability in the near-infrared with the WFCAM
Saturday, April 5th
10:00 – 10:30 – Invited: Bárbara Rojas-Ayala (Universidade de Porto, Portugal)
Digging out the little red gems: M dwarfs in the VVV b201 tile
10:30 – 10:50 – Invited: Márcio Catelan (PUC, Chile)
Reddening-free indices in the VISTA filter system
10:50 – 11:10 – Verónica Firpo (Universidad de La Serena, Chile)
Hundreds of new cluster candidates in the VVV survey DR1
11:10 – 11:30 – Pablo Andrés Huijse Heise (Universidad de Chile, Chile)
Mining variable stars on large astronomical databases
11:30 – 12:30 – Round table: VVV and its future
12:30 – 1:00 – Vino de honor
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