Dictionary of Nomenclature of Celestial Objects


Details on Acronym:   VHS
  
VHS  
Write:<<VHS JHHMM+DDMMa>>
<<VHS JHHMMSS.ss+DDMMSS.s>>
N: 1155634198
Object:(NIR)  (SIMBAD class: NearIR = Near-IR Source (λ < 3 µm))
Note:ESO-VHS (European Southern Observatory-VISTA Hemisphere Survey) is a NIR photometric survey being conducted using the VISTA telescope in Chile to survey 18000deg2 of the Southern celestial hemisphere.
Only the first references using these formats are listed here.
For more information see the website: http://www.vista-vhs.org/.
Ref:=2012A&A...548A..53L
byLODIEU N. , BURNINGHAM B., DAY-JONES A., SCHOLZ R.-D., MAROCCO F., KOPOSOV S., BARRADO Y NAVASCUES D., LUCAS P.W., CRUZ P., LILLO J., JONES H., PEREZ-GARRIDO A., RUIZ M.T., PINFIELD D., REBOLO R., BEJAR V.J.S., BOUDREAULT S., EMERSON J.P., BANERJI M., GONZALEZ-SOLARES E., HODGKIN S.T., McMAHON R., CANTY J., CONTRERAS C.
 Astron. Astrophys., 548A, 53-53 (2012)
  First T dwarfs in the VISTA Hemisphere Survey.
oTable 1: <[LBD2012] JHHMMSS.ss+DDMMSS.s> N=13. Figs 3-4, Table 2: <VHS JHHMMSS.ss+DDMMSS.s> N=5.
Ref:=2013MNRAS.429L..55B
byBANERJI M. , McMAHON R.G., HEWETT P.C., GONZALEZ-SOLARES E., KOPOSOV S.E.
 Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 429L, 55-59 (2013)
  Hyperluminous reddened broad-line quasars at z ~ 2 from the VISTA Hemisphere Survey and WISE All-Sky Survey.
oTable 1: <VHS JHHMM+DDMM> N=5.
Ref:=2015MNRAS.447.3368B
byBANERJI M. , ALAGHBAND-ZADEH S., HEWETT P.C., McMAHON R.G.
 Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 447, 3368-3389 (2015)
  Heavily reddened type 1 quasars at z > 2 - I. Evidence for significant obscured black hole growth at the highest quasar luminosities.
oTable 2: <VHS JHHMM+DDMM> N=22.
Ref:=2015ApJ...804...96G
byGAUZA B. , BEJAR V.J.S., PEREZ-GARRIDO A., ZAPATERO OSORIO M.R., LODIEU N., REBOLO R., PALLE E., NOWAK G.
 Astrophys. J., 804, 96 (2015)
  Discovery of a young planetary mass companion to the nearby M dwarf VHS J125601.92-125723.9.
oVHS J125601.92-125723.9 is 2MASS J12560215-1257217 in SIMBAD and VHS 1256-1257b is 2MASS J12560183-1257276.
oTable 2: <VHS JHHMM+DDMMa> N=2 (Nos J1256-1257 and J1256-1257b) added.
Ref:=2013Msngr.154...35M
byMcMAHON R.G. , BANERJI M., GONZALEZ E., KOPOSOV S.E., BEJAR V.J., LODIEU N., REBOLO R., (The VHS Collaboration)
 Msngr, 154, 35-37 (2013)
  First Scientific Results from the VISTA Hemisphere Survey (VHS).
o<VHS JHHMMSS.ss+DDMMSS.s> N=1155634198.
=E=Catalogue in electronic form as <II/359/>
=E=Catalogue in electronic form as <II/367/>
Originof the Acronym: A = Assigned by the author(s)