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                                Meghívó
        az  MTA Konkoly Thege Miklós Csillagászati Kutatóintézete 
                             szemináriumára

Elõadó: István Dékány (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, 
Chile)

Cím: VVV: a deep look into our Galaxy, and beyond

Kivonat:
The VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) is a large ESO public survey 
of the Southern Milky Way (http://vvvsurvey.org). It is aiming to provide 
a deep near-infrared atlas of the bulge and an adjacent part of the 
mid-plane in 5 passbands, and time-series photometry of a billion point 
sources with a time-base of at least 5 years. In the first part of the 
talk I will describe the design, immediate scientific goals, observations, 
data processing, and current status of the VVV Survey. In the second part, 
I will share interesting new results and discoveries made by the VVV 
Science Team, and outline some important future prospects. These cover a 
huge variety of projects, ranging from Solar System studies to the mapping 
of the Galactic structure, and from the search for variable stars to the 
census of background galaxies and high energy sources.

Az elõadás idõpontja: 2011. július 7., csütörtök  14 óra 

Helye: MTA KTM CSKI elõadóterme 
Budapest, XII., Konkoly Thege M. út 15-17.