VVV: The near-IR Milky Way bulge and plane survey

M. Rejkuba; O. A. Gonzalez; I. Toledo; D. Minniti; P. Lucas

doi:10.1051/epjconf/20121909009

VVV: The near-IR Milky Way bulge and plane survey

M. Rejkuba, O. A. Gonzalez, I. Toledo, D. Minniti, P. Lucas

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The ESO public survey "VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea" (VVV) started mapping the inner disk and bulge of our Galaxy with the VISTA 4m telescope in the near-IR in 2010. The planned survey area of 520 deg² is observed in the Z, Y, J, H and Ks filters, and in addition more than 100 epochs of repeated imaging in Ks will be collected over ∼5 years. The final products will be a deep near-IR atlas in five passbands, and catalogue of more than a million variable sources. This public survey will provide data available to the whole community and therefore will enable further studies of the history of the Milky Way, its star cluster evolution, and the population census of the Galactic Bulge and center, as well as the investigations of the star formation regions in the disk.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Assembling the Puzzle of the Milky Way
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20121909009
Publication status	Published - 2012
Event	International Conference on Assembling the Puzzle of the Milky Way - Le Grand-Bornand, France Duration: 17 Apr 2011 → 22 Apr 2011

Publication series

Name	EPJ Web of Conferences
Volume	19
ISSN (Print)	2101-6275
ISSN (Electronic)	2100-014X

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Other	International Conference on Assembling the Puzzle of the Milky Way
Country/Territory	France
City	Le Grand-Bornand
Period	17/04/11 → 22/04/11

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General Physics and Astronomy

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