VISTA exploitation: PI support from 2011

可见光和红外天文观测望远镜（VISTA）于2010年12月10日移交给欧洲南方天文台运行。虽然VISTA现在是ESO的望远镜，但VISTA首席研究员和联合会主任的任务并没有停止，T&S需要参加ESO在其Garching总部举行的各种会议。随着VISTA的日常运作，英国提供的VISTA数据流系统（VDFS -剑桥的管道和爱丁堡的科学档案馆）在处理VISTA的大量数据并将其转化为适合科学使用的图像和目录方面的作用变得突出。领导VDFS，帮助调解/平衡用户有时相互冲突的要求，帮助确保产品的准确性，以及用户对VDFS可用资源的满意度仍然是一项重要任务。在剑桥和爱丁堡，面对面的会议都需要T&S。在2010-2014年的五年中，有六次VISTA公众调查，占所有VISTA时间的75%。T&S旨在允许PI与其中五个团队的其他成员进行面对面的互动（第六个团队由QMUL领导）。每年参加一次英国和非英国会议将允许向更广泛的社区介绍VISTA的性能，介绍委托结果，申请人自己的船底座星云J波段可变性调查以及VISTA调查结果。这也将使申请人能够跟上竞争性工作的步伐。

The Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) was handed over to ESO for operation on 10 December 2010. Although VISTA is now an ESO telescope the VISTA Principal Investigator and Consortium Director's tasks have not ceased, and T&S is needed to attend various meeting with ESO in their Garching HQ. With VISTA now operating routinely the role of the UK provided VISTA Data Flow System (VDFS - pipeline at Cambridge & science archive at Edinburgh) in processing the vast data volumes from VISTA and turning them into images and catalogues suitable for science use has become prominent. Leading the VDFS, and helping mediate/balance the sometimes confliciting requirements of users, and helping ensure the accuracy of the products, and the contentment of users withtin the resources avialable to VDFS remains an important task. T&S is needed for face-to-face meetings in both Cambridge and Edinburgh. There are six VISTA Public Surveys with 75% of all VISTA time over the five years 2010-2014. T&S is sought to allow the PI to interact face-to-face with the other members of five of these teams (the sixth team is led from QMUL). Attendance at one UK and on non-UK conference a year will allow presentation of the performance of VISTA to the wider community, presentation of results from commissioning, the applicant's own J band varuability survey of the Carina nebula, and of VISTA survey results in general. These will also enable the applicant to keep abreast of competitive work.