The VVV Survey of the Milky Way: first year results

MINNITI, D; CLARIÁ, J. J; SAITO, R. K; HEMPEL, M; LUCAS, P. W; REJKUBA, M.; TOLEDO, I.;; GONZALEZ, O. A; ALONSO-GARCÍA, J; IRWIN, M.; GONZALEZ-SOLARES, E.; CROSS, N.; IVANOV, V.; SOTO, M.; DÉKÁNY, I.; ANGELONI, R.; CATELAN, M.; AMÔRES, E.B.; GUROVICH, S.; EMERSON, J.; LEWIS, J; HODGKIN, T.; PIETRUKOWICZ, P.; ZOCCALI, M.; SALE, S.; BARBÁ, R.; BARBUY, B.; BEAMIN, J. C.; HELMINIAK, K.; BORISSOVA, J.; FOLKES, S.; GAMEN, R.; GEISLER, D.; MAURO, F.; CHENE, A,; ALONSO, M. V.,; GUNTHARDT, G.; HANSON, M.; KERINS, E.; KURTEV, R.; MAJAESS, D.; MARTÍN, E.; MASETTI, N.; MIRABEL, F.; MONACO, L.; MONI BIDIN, C.; PADILLA, N.; ROJAS, A.; PIETRZYNSKI, G.; SAVIANE, I.; VALENTI, E.; WEIDMANN, W.; LÓPEZ-CORREDOIRA, M.; AHUMADA, A.; AIGRAIN, S.; ARIAS, J.; BICA, E.; BANDYOPADHYAY, R.; BAUME, G.; BEDIN, L.; BONATTO, C.; BRONFMAN, L.; CARRARO, G.; CONTRERAS, C.; DAVIS, C.; DE GRIJS, R.; DIAS, B; DREW, J.; FARIÑA, C.; FEINSTEIN, C.; FERNÁNDEZ LAJÚS, E.; GIEREN, W.; GOLDMAN, B.; GOSLING, A.; HAMBLY, N.; HOARE, M.; JORDÁN, A.; KINEMUCH

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Congreso; Reunión Anual No. 54 de la Asociación Argentina de Astronomía (AAA); 2011

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The VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) is an ESO publicnear-IR variability survey that is scanning the Milky Way bulge and an adjacent section of the Galactic mid-plane. The survey will take 1929 hours of observations with the VISTA 4.1-m telescope during five years, covering a billion point sources across an area of 520 sqdeg, including 36 known globular clusters and more than 350 open clusters. The final product will be a deep IR atlas in fivepassbands (0.9 − 2.5 microns) and a catalogue of more than a million variable point sources.