The VMC survey

Abstract

The VISTA survey of the Magellanic Clouds system (VMC) is a public survey project of the European Southern Observatory. It is collecting multi-band near-infrared data across large areas of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, the Magellanic Bridge and a few fields in the Magellanic Stream. The combination of great sensitivity to stars below the old main sequence turn off, and the multiplicity at Ks band (at least 12 epochs) make VMC highly suitable for the determination of the spatially resolved star formation history and three-dimensional geometry, using variable stars such as Cepheids and RR Lyrae stars. The VMC observations are progressing well and will be completed in 2018. The VMC survey has a high legacy value and many science results have already been published, e.g. the most detailed star formation history map of the Small Magellanic Cloud, and others are in preparation, e.g. a comprehensive investigation of classical Cepheids and a study of the proper motion in the foreground 47 Tuc cluster.

5 pages, 1 figure, Proceeding contribution of targeted talk at the conference "The Universe of Digital Sky Surveys" held in Naples (Italy) on 25-28 November 2014

References in corpus (10)

• The VISTA Science Archive
• The VMC Survey - XIV. First results on the look-back time star-formation rate tomography of the Small Magellanic Cloud
• The VMC Survey. XIII. Type II Cepheids in the Large Magellanic Cloud
• The VMC Survey - X. Cepheids, RR Lyrae stars and binaries as probes of the Magellanic System's structure
• The VMC survey - XV. The Small Magellanic Cloud--Bridge connection history as traced by their star cluster populations
• The VMC Survey. VIII. First results for Anomalous Cepheids
• Eclipsing binary stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Results from the EROS-2, OGLE and VMC surveys
• The VMC survey - XVII. The proper motion of the Small Magellanic Cloud and of the Milky Way globular cluster 47 Tucanae
• The VMC Survey - XII. Star cluster candidates in the Large Magellanic Cloud
• The VMC Survey. XI. Radial Stellar Population Gradients in the Galactic Globular Cluster 47 Tucanae

Cited by in corpus (3)

• The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey XXIV. Stellar properties of the O-type giants and supergiants in 30 Doradus
• Physical properties of star clusters in the outer LMC as observed by the Dark Energy Survey
• The VMC Survey - XXXIII. The tip of the red giant branch in the Magellanic Clouds