Dictionary of Nomenclature of Celestial Objects
(Last update: 22-Mar-2024)

Result of query: info cati VVV JHHMMSS.ss+DDMMSS.s$
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Details on Acronym:   VVV
  
VVV (VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea)
Write:<<VVV AANNN>>
<<VVV RR HHMMSS+DDMMSS>>
<<VVV G HHMMSS+DDMMSS>>
<<VVV JHHMMSS.ss+DDMMSS.s>>
<<VVV JHHMMSS.ss+DDMMSS.ss>>
Object:Poss. Cluster of * + Brown Dwarf + Nova + G + ?  (SIMBAD class: Unknown = Object of Unknown Nature)
Note:The VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) is an ESO Public survey carried out with the 4.2m VISTA telescope. VVV is mapping around 560 sq. degrees towards the Galactic Bulge and southern inner disk in five near IR bands (ZY JHKs), there is also a multiepoch campaign in the Ks band visiting nearly 100 times each pointing. See: http://vvvsurvey.org

We want to register several formats that would be used by the VVV survey:
CLNNN for clusters as used in Borissova et al. (2011A&A...532A.131B)
BDNNN for brown dwarfs
NVNNN for novae

We plan to use the AANNN format for not so numerous objects as the one mentioned above, but for more common objects like variable stars, galaxies etc would be more useful to give the coordinates directly i.e.
RR HHMMSS-DDMMSS for RR Lyr stars
G HHMMSS-DDMMSS for Galaxies

And for any kind of source in the survey (unclassified), it would be useful to have a designation just with coordinates:
JHHMMSS.ss-DDMMSS.s for sources in general
2021MNRAS.502..601B: VVV NIR Galaxy Catalogue (VVV NIRGC) of N=5563 galaxies, in the Galacitc disc (within 295°<l<350° and -2.25°<b<+2.25°).

Format JHHMMSS.ss+DDMMSS.ss: to follow the col. IAUNAME available in the ESO catalogues (http://archive.eso.org).

Ref:=2011A&A...527A..81M
byMINNITI D. , HEMPEL M., TOLEDO I., IVANOV V.D., ALONSO-GARCIA J., SAITO R.K., CATELAN M., GEISLER D., JORDAN A., BORISSOVA J., ZOCCALI M., KURTEV R., CARRARO G., BARBUY B., CLARIA J., REJKUBA M., EMERSON J., MONI BIDIN C.
 Astron. Astrophys., 527A, 81-81 (2011)
  Discovery of VVV CL001. A low-mass globular cluster next to UKS 1 in the direction of the Galactic bulge.
oTable 1: <VVV CL001> N=1.
Ref:=2011A&A...532A.131B
byBORISSOVA J. , BONATTO C., KURTEV R., CLARKE J.R.A., PENALOZA F., SALE S.E., MINNITI D., ALONSO-GARCIA J., ARTIGAU E., BARBA R., BICA E., BAUME G.L., CATELAN M., CHENE A.N., DIAS B., FOLKES S.L., FROEBRICH D., GEISLER D., DE GRIJS R., HANSON M.M., HEMPEL M., IVANOV V.D., KUMAR M.S.N., LUCAS P., MAURO F., MONI BIDIN C., REJKUBA M., SAITO R.K., TAMURA M., TOLEDO I.
 Astron. Astrophys., 532A, 131-131 (2011)
  New galactic star clusters discovered in the VVV survey.
oTable 1: <VVV CLNNN> N=96 among (Nos CL005-CL096).
Ref:=2011A&A...535A..33M
byMONI BIDIN C. , MAURO F., GEISLER D., MINNITI D., CATELAN M., HEMPEL M., VALENTI E., VALCARCE A.A.R., ALONSO-GARCIA J., BORISSOVA J., CARRARO G., LUCAS P., CHENE A.-N., ZOCCALI M., KURTEV R.G.
 Astron. Astrophys., 535A, 33-33 (2011)
  Three galactic globular cluster candidates.
oTable 1: <VVV CLNNN> N=3 (Nos CL002, CL003, CL004).
Ref:=2012A&A...537A.107S
bySAITO R.K. , HEMPEL M., MINNITI D., LUCAS P.W., REJKUBA M., TOLEDO I., GONZALEZ O.A., ALONSO-GARCIA J., IRWIN M.J., GONZALEZ-SOLARES E., HODGKIN S.T., LEWIS J.R., CROSS N., IVANOV V.D., KERINS E., EMERSON J.P., SOTO M., AMORES E.B., GUROVICH S., DEKANY I., ANGELONI R., BEAMIN J.C., CATELAN M., PADILLA N., ZOCCALI M., PIETRUKOWICZ P., MONI BIDIN C., MAURO F., GEISLER D., FOLKES S.L., SALE S.E., BORISSOVA J., KURTEV R., AHUMADA A.V., ALONSO M.V., ADAMSON A., ARIAS J.I., BANDYOPADHYAY R.M., BARBA R.H., BARBUY B., BAUME G.L., BEDIN L.R., BELLINI A., BENJAMIN R., BICA E., BONATTO C., BRONFMAN L., CARRARO G., CHENE A.N., CLARIA J.J., CLARKE J.R.A., CONTRERAS C., CORVILLON A., DE GRIJS R., DIAS B., DREW J.E., FARINA C., FEINSTEIN C., FERNANDEZ-LAJUS E., GAMEN R.C., GIEREN W., GOLDMAN B., GONZALEZ-FERNANDEZ C., GRAND R.J.J., GUNTHARDT G., HAMBLY N.C., HANSON M.M., HELMINIAK K.G., HOARE M.G., HUCKVALE L., JORDAN A., KINEMUCHI K., LONGMORE A., LOPEZ-CORREDOIRA M., MACCARONE T., MAJAESS D., MARTIN E.L., MASETTI N., MENNICKENT R.E., MIRABEL I.F., MONACO L., MORELLI L., MOTTA V., PALMA T., PARISI M.C., PARKER Q., PENALOZA F., PIETRZYNSKI G., PIGNATA G., POPESCU B., READ M.A., ROJAS A., ROMAN-LOPES A., RUIZ M.T., SAVIANE I., SCHREIBER M.R., SCHROEDER A.C., SHARMA S., SMITH M.D., SODRE L.Jr, STEAD J., STEPHENS A.W., TAMURA M., TAPPERT C., THOMPSON M.A., VALENTI E., VANZI L., WALTON N.A., WEIDMANN W., ZIJLSTRA A.
 Astron. Astrophys., 537A, 107-107 (2012)
  VVV DR1: the first data release of the Milky Way bulge and southern plane from the near-infrared ESO public survey VISTA variables in the Via Lactea.
o<VVV JHHMMSS.ss+DDMMSS.s> N=206911150.
Ref:=2012ATel.4426....1S
bySAITO R.K. , MINNITI D., ANGELONI R., CATELAN M.
 ATel, 4426, 1 (2012)
  VVV-NOV-001: the first Galactic nova candidate discovered by the VVV Survey in the Milky Way bulge.
o<VVV NVNNN> (No. 001).
Ref:=2014A&A...568A..16L
byLIMA E.F. , BICA E., BONATTO C., SAITO R.K.
 Astron. Astrophys., 568A, 16-16 (2014)
  Probing embedded star clusters in the HII complex NGC 6357 with VVV.
oFigs 1-2, Table 1: <VVV CLNNN> (Nos CL164-CL167).
oParagraph 2. G353.12+0.86 not identified, may be GAL 353.1+0.6 or GAL 353.2+0.9.
Ref:=2014A&A...569A..24B
byBORISSOVA J. , CHENE A.-N., RAMIREZ ALEGRIA S., SHARMA S., CLARKE J.R.A., KURTEV R., NEGUERUELA I., MARCO A., AMIGO P., MINNITI D., BICA E., BONATTO C., CATELAN M., FIERRO C., GEISLER D., GROMADZKI M., HEMPEL M., HANSON M.M., IVANOV V.D., LUCAS P., MAJAESS D., MONI BIDIN C., POPESCU B., SAITO R.K.
 Astron. Astrophys., 569A, 24-24 (2014)
  New galactic star clusters discovered in the VVV survey. Candidates projected on the inner disk and bulge.
oTable 1: <VVV CLNNN> N=58 among (Nos 106 to 163). Table 3: <[BCR2014] CLNNN NN> N=90.
Ref:=2017A&A...600A.112I
byIVANOV V.D. , PIATTI A.E., BEAMIN J.-C., MINNITI D., BORISSOVA J., KURTEV R., HEMPEL M., SAITO R.K.
 Astron. Astrophys., 600A, 112-112 (2017)
  Candidate star clusters toward the inner Milky Way discovered on deep-stacked K_§-band images from the VVV Survey.
oFig. 3, Table 1: <VVV CLNNN> (Nos CL168-CL176).
Ref:=2021MNRAS.502..601B
byBARAVALLE L.D. , ALONSO M.V., MINNITI D., NILO CASTELLON J.L., SOTO M., VALOTTO C., VILLALON C., GRANA D., AMORES E.B., MILLA CASTRO F.
 Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 502, 601-620 (2021)
  The VVV near-IR galaxy catalogue beyond the Galactic disc.
oTable 5: <VVV JHHMMSS.ss+DDMMSS.s> N=5593.
o2MASX J13462058-6247497 is a misprint for 2MASX J13462058-6247597. Instituto de Astrofisica, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile Jura Borissova Universidad de Valparaiso, Valparaiso, Chile
=E=Catalogue in electronic form as J/A+A/532/A131
=E=Catalogue in electronic form as <II/337/>
=E=Catalogue in electronic form as <II/348/>
=E=Catalogue in electronic form as <II/376/>
Originof the Acronym: p = Pre-registered to IAU Comm.5