Vista milky way public survey

Journal article

We propose a public IR variability survey, named "Vista Variables in the Vía Láctea" (V V V ), of the Milky Way bulge and an adjacent section of the mid-plane where star formation activity is high. This would take 1920 hours, covering ̃ 109 point sources within an area of 520 sq deg, including 33 known globular clusters and ̃ 350 open clusters. The final products will be a deep IR atlas in 5 passbands and a catalogue of ̃ 106 variable point sources. These will produce a 3-D map of the surveye...

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Authors: Minniti, D; Lucas, P; Ahumada, A; Zoccali, M; Catelan, M

• Journal: Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica: Serie de Conferencias
• Volume: 35
• Pages: 263-264
• Publication date: 2009-01-01
• ISSN: 1405-2059
• Language: English
• Keywords: Surveys; Techniques: Photometric; Galaxy: Structure