VISTA Variables in the Vía Láctea (VVV): Halfway Status and Results

HEMPEL; DANTE MINNITI,ISTVÁN DÉKÁNY,ROBERTO K. SAITO,PHILIP W. LUCAS,JIM P. EMERSON,ANDREA V. AHUMADA,SUZANNE AIGRAIN,MARIA VICTORIA ALONSO,JAVIER ALONSO-GARCÍA,EDUARDO B. AMÔRES,RODOLFO ANGELONI,JULIA ARIAS,REBA BANDYOPADHYAY,RODOLFO H. BARBÁ; BEATRIZ BARBUY,GUSTAVO BAUME,JUAN CARLOS BEAMIN,LUIGI BEDIN,EDUARDO BICA,JORDANKA BORISSOVA,LEONARDO BRONFMAN,GIOVANNI CARRARO,MÁRCIO CATELAN,JUAN J. CLARIÁ,CARLOS CONTRERAS,NICHOLAS CROSS,CHRISTOPHER DAVIS,RICHARD DE GRIJS,JANET E. DREW; CECILIA FARIÑA,CARLOS FEINSTEIN,EDUARDO FERNÁNDEZ LAJÚS,STUART FOLKES,ROBERTO C. GAMEN,DOUGLAS GEISLER,WOLFGANG GIEREN,BERTRAND GOLDMAN,OSCAR GONZÁLEZ,ANDREW GOSLING,GUILLERMO GUNTHARDT,SEBASTIAN GUROVICH,NIGEL C. HAMBLY,MARGARET HANSON,; MELVIN HOARE,MIKE J. IRWIN,VALENTIN D. IVANOV,ANDRÉS JORDÁN, EAMONN KERINS,KAREN KINEMUCHI,RADOSTIN KURTEV,ANDY LONGMORE,MARTIN LÓPEZ-CORREDOIRA,TOM MACCARONE,EDUARDO MARTÍN,NICOLA MASETTI,RONALD E. MENNICKENT,DAVID MERLO,MARIA MESSINEO

The ESO Messenger

ESO

Lugar: München; Año: 2014 vol. 155 p. 24 - 29

0722-6691

The VISTA Variables in the Vía Láctea (VVV) survey is one of six near-infrared ESO public surveys, and is now in its fourth year of observing. Although far from being complete, the VVV survey has already delivered many results, some directly connected to the intended science goals (detection of variable stars, microlensing events, new star clusters), others concerning more exotic objects, e.g., novae. Now, at the end of the fourth observing period, and comprising roughly 50 % of the proposed observations, the status of the survey, as well some of results based on the VVV data, are presented.