TY - GEN
T1 - VVV
T2 - International Conference on Assembling the Puzzle of the Milky Way
AU - Rejkuba, M.
AU - Gonzalez, O. A.
AU - Toledo, I.
AU - Minniti, D.
AU - Lucas, P.
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2013 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84873555444&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1051/epjconf/20121909009
DO - 10.1051/epjconf/20121909009
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84873555444
SN - 9782759807185
T3 - EPJ Web of Conferences
BT - Assembling the Puzzle of the Milky Way
Y2 - 17 April 2011 through 22 April 2011
ER -