8th VVV Science Meeting, Edinburgh, 2017

The 8th VVV Science Meeting at the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh

3- 5 July, 2017

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8th VVV Science Meeting, July 2017, Edinburgh, UK

Vista Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) eXtended survey (VVV-X)

For the past 6 years, the ESO Public Survey VISTA Variables in the Via Láctea (VVV) has been mapping the IR variability of the Milky Way bulge and southern mid-plane. ESO has recently approved our proposal to extend the survey, thus enhancing its long lasting legacy. The VVV eXtended (VVVX) survey is aimed to cover the gaps left between the VVV and VHS areas. It will also extend the VVV time-baseline, enabling variability and proper motion measurements in the optically obscured regions where most observations are strongly limited by extinction, using a total of 1998 hr of VISTA and covering an area of 1700 sq. deg. of the Southern sky.

The meeting in Edinburgh

The 8th VVV meeting will take place in the Royal Observatory Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. More information about the ROE can be found here: ROE info

​The Edinburgh meeting will be focused on discussing science case priorities for the next years, revising the survey strategy after the first year of VVVX observations and establishing spectroscopic follow-up strategies.

​Registration for the workshop is open. A fee of GBP 85.00 will be charged to all participants and must be paid before 01 May following the information in the registration page. The fee covers coffee breaks and lunch during the meeting as well as group dinner for the evening of 3 and 4th of July.

The meeting will include only contributed talks and posters. You can submit your title and abstract following the registration link. Accepted talks and program will be released by April 1st.

Organisers:
Oscar Gonzalez (ATC, UK) Nick Cross (IfA, UK), Joyce Pullen (MAS, Chile), Phil Lucas (UH, UK), Dante Minniti (UNAB, Chile), Manuela Zoccali (PUC, Chile)

Sponsoring Institutions

Royal Observatory Edinburgh and  Millennium Institute of Astrophysics

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REGISTERED PARTICIPANTS

  • Dante Minniti  (UNAB/MAS/CATA/VO, Chile)
  • Julio A. Carballo-Bello (PUC, Chile)
  • Maren Hempel (PUC, Chile)
  • Gabriela Navarro (UNAB, Chile)
  • Javier Minniti (PUC, Chile)
  • Tali Palma (UNAB, Chile)
  • Maria Daniela Galeano (U. Nacional de San Juan, Argentina)
  • Javier Alonso-Garcia (U. Antofagasta, Chile)
  • Elena Valenti (ESO, Germany)
  • Mariusz Gromadzki (Warsaw University Astronomical Observatory)
  • Oscar Gonzalez (UK Astronomy Technology Centre, UK)
  • Marina Rejkuba (ESO, Germany)
  • Carlos Eduardo Ferreira Lopes (INPE, Brazil)
  • Valentin Ivanov (ESO, Germany)
  • Manuela Zoccali (PUC, Chile)
  • Francisco Surot (ESO, Germany)
  • Joyce Pullen (MAS, Chile)
  • Alvaro Rojas-Arriagada (PUC, Chile)
  • Nick Cross (IfA, Edinburgh, UK)
  • Carlos Gonzalez-Fernandez (CASU, UK)
  • Rodrigo Contreras Ramos (MAS, Chile)
  • Charles Bonatto (UFRGS, Brazil)
  • Vittorio Francesco Braga (UNAB, Chile)
  • Alexandre Roman-Lopes (U. La Serena, Chile)
  • Katherine Montenegro (UNAB, Chile)
  • André-Nicolas Chené (Gemini Observatory, USA)
  • Doug Geisler (U. de Concepcion, Chile)​
  • Eliade Lima (UNIPAMPA, Brazil)
  • Chris Evans (UK Astronomy Technology Centre, UK)
  • Victor Debattista (UCLAN, UK)
  • Anja Schroeder (South African Astronomical Observatory, South Africa)
  • Ortwin Gerhard (MPE, Germany)
  • Philip Lucas (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
  • Francesco Mauro (Universidad Catolica del Norte, Chile)
  • Radostin Kurtev (Universidad de Valparaiso, Chile)
  • Roger Cohen (STScI, USA)
  • Jim Emerson (QMUL, UK)
  • Chris Wegg (MPE, Germany)
  • Claudio Navarro (Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile)
  • Leigh Smith (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
  • Christian Moni Bidin (UCN, Chile)
  • Roberto Saito (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil)

 

PROGRAMME

Vista Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) eXtended survey (VVV-X)

3-5 July, ROE, Edinburgh​

MONDAY July 3

Session I : VVV and VVVX updates

09:00 – 09:30: Registration

09:30 – 09:40: Oscar Gonzalez : “Welcome to the meeting”
09:40 – 10:00: Phil Lucas: “VVVX status and plans”
10:00 – 10:20: Nick Cross: “The VISTA science Archive: VVVDR5 and VVVX”
10:20 – 10:40: Carlos Gonzalez-Fernandez: “VVVX data processing and updates”

10:40 – 11:10: Coffee break

11:10 – 11:30: Maren Hempel: “The photometric completeness of the VVV survey”
11:30 – 11:50: Leigh Smith: “An astrometric catalogue of the entire VVV Survey”
11:50 – 12:10: Dante Minniti: “First results from VVVX”
12:10 – 12:30: Discussion on VVVX progress and organisation

12:30 – 14:00: Lunch break

Session II : CMDs, Stellar populations and star clusters

14:00 – 14:20: Javier Alonso-Garcia: “VVV and VVVx color-magnitude diagrams of the inner Galaxy”
14:20 – 14:40: Francesco Mauro: “From VVV to VVVX: SkZpipe, the eXtension of VVV-SkZ_pipeline photometric pipeline”
14:40 – 15:00: Francisco Surot: “Milky Way Bulge: age and SFH”
15:00 – 15:20: Marina Rejkuba: “The hidden side of Sagittarius”

15:20 – 15:50: Coffee break

15:50 – 16:10: Valentin Ivanov: “Star clusters in the inner Milky Way”
16:10 – 16:30: Andre-Nicholas Chene: “VVV database of the open clusters in the Milky Way”
16:30 – 16:50: Eliade Lima: “The connection between SGR 1806-20 and W31 regions probed by VVV and 2MASS”
16:50 – 17:10: Roger Cohen: “Deep Imaging of Bulge Globular Clusters and the Role of Precision Abundances”

17:30 – 18:30: Whisky Tasting at ROE rooftop Gallery

19:30: Dinner. Venue TBD (option: The Old Bell or The Salisbury arms, Traditional Scottish)

TUESDAY July 4

Session III : Galactic structure, dynamics, and modelling

09:00 – 09:20: Javier Minniti: “Using Classical Cepheids to study the far side of the Milky Way’s disk”
09:20 – 09:40: Vittorio Braga: “Distance diagnostics with Type II Cepheids in the VVV”
09:40 – 10:00: Rodrigo Contreras: “Proper Motions with VVV data”
10:00 – 10:20: Radostin Kurtev: “Astrometry, proper motions and parallaxes with the VVV”

10:20 – 11:10: Coffee break

11:10 – 11:30: Anja Schroeder: “NIR Detections of galaxies in the Zone of Avoidance”
11:30 – 11:50: Victor Debattista: “Understanding the separate evolution of stellar populations in the MW’s bulge”
11:50 – 12:10: Ortwin Gerhard: “Dynamical and chemo-dynamical models for the barred inner Milky Way”
12:10 – 12:30: Chris Wegg: “Microlensing predictions for VVV from Made-to-Measure Dynamical models”
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12:30 – 14:00: Lunch break

Session IV : Variability

14:00 – 14:20: Philip Lucas: “High amplitude variables in VVV, UKIDSS, GPS and VVVX”
14:20 – 14:40: Gabriela Navarro: “Microensing events in the galactic centre”
14:40 – 15:00: Mariusz Gromadzki: “Galactic black holes in microlensing events from Gaia and VVV(x) surveys”
15:00 – 15:20: Tali Palma: “Variability in open cluster fields with the VVV Survey: mapping the external regions of the Disc”
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15:20 – 15:50: Coffee break
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15:50 – 16:10: Carlos Ferreira-Lopez: “New data-mining tools to face the VVV and large data-science”
16:10 – 16:30: Claudio Navarro: “Variable Stars in the Galactic Center as revealed by the VVV Survey”
16:30 – 16:50: Maren Hempel: “The near-infrared variability of quasars”
16:50 – 17:20: POSTER presentations (4+1 minutes per poster)

19:30: Dinner. Venue TBD (option: Pataka or Voujon, Traditional Indian/curry)
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WEDNESDAY July 5

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Session V : Spectroscopic and photometric follow-up. Future plans

09:00 – 09:20: Manuela Zoccali: “Kinematics and Abundances in the Inner Bulge with GIBS and APOGEE”
09:20 – 09:40: Elena Valenti: “Spectroscopic survey of the inner Bulge with MUSE”
09:40 – 10:00: Alvaro Rojas-Arriagada: “The inner-Galaxy Gaia-ESO Survey: an example of fruitful symbiosis between VVV and spectroscopic surveys”
10:00 – 10:20: Doug Geisler: “Follow-up Observations of VVV Bulge Globular Clusters”
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10:20 – 11:10: Coffee break
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11:10 – 11:30: Oscar Gonzalez: “Future Instrumentation and the VVVX legacy. From MOONS to the E-ELT”
11:30 – 12:00: Discussion on Science. Working groups. New projects. Future needs.
12:00 – 12:10: Summary and Final Conclusions
12:30 – End of the workshop

POSTER CONTRIBUTIONS
To be presented on last session of Tuesday July 4.

16:50 – 16:55: Joyce Pullen: “3D animations with VVV data”
16:55 – 17:00: Charles Bonatto: “An efficient approach to extract parameters from CMDs of stellar clusters”
17:00 – 17:05: Katherine Montenegro: “Blue Horizontal Branch Stars in the bulge-halo transition region using the VVV Survey”
17:05 – 17:10: Maria Daniela Galdeano Mantiñán: “Galaxy Overdensity in the VVV survey”
17:10 – 17:15: Christian Moni-Bidinl: “VVV at UCN”
17:15 – 17:20: Roberto Saito: “Synergies between VVVX and S-PLUS”