The Milky Way Bulge PSF Photometry project provides a comprehensive census of the stellar populations of the inner ~300 deg^2 of the Galaxy, using J and Ks band observations obtained with VIRCAM on VISTA from the VVV ESO Public Survey.

The primary goals of VINROUGE (Vista Near infra-Red Observations Uncovering Gravitational wave Events, PI N. Tanvir) are to locate and characterize the electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational wave discovered events. This is achieved through wide field, multi-filter (Y, J, Ks) imaging of the error regions with VIRCAM on VISTA. This first data-release contains imaging and catalogues obtained during the follow-up of three gravitational wave triggers during the second LIGO/Virgo science run (O2). These triggers were two black hole mergers GW 170809 and  GW 170814, and the Kilonova transient GW 170817. For the latter, the gravitational wave counterpart was detected and identified as a binary neutron star merger. The observations of the three different fields cover respectively 17 deg², ~27 deg² and 3.5 deg².

The VISTA Magellanic Survey (VMC) led by principal investigator M. Cioni aims at the determination of the spatially resolved star formation history and the three-dimensional geometry of the Magellanic Cloud system. The sensitivity in Y, J and Ks filters has been designed to reach sources below the oldest main-sequence turn off point of the stellar population and through the multi-epoch coverage to measure accurate Ks mean magnitudes for pulsating variable stars like RR Lyrae and Cepheids.

With this data release, the VISTA VVV survey (179.B-2002) publishes the VVV near-infrared Astrometric Catalog (VIRAC) that contains proper motions of stars measured during five years of observations, from 2010 to 2015. The catalogue contains ZYJHKs band merged magnitudes (single epoch, wherein the Ks magnitude is a mean value) and proper motion measurements for 312,587,642 unique sources detected in the multi-epoch imaging campaign covering 560 deg² of the Milky Way bulge and southern disk. VIRAC includes 119 million high quality proper motion measurements, out of which 47 million have statistical uncertainties below 1 mas yr^-1. The VIRAC photometric and astrometric calibrations are both derived from the 2MASS Point Source Catalogue.

The ESO Public Survey ATLAS with VST is targeting 4700 square degrees of the southern sky in u,g,r,i,z to depths comparable to those of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey SDSS (r~22). Its wide wavelength coverage, from the u- to z-band complements the VISTA VHS and VIKING Surveys in YJHK bands.

This is the second data release from the ESO Large Program 'Dissecting GAs Stripping Phenomena in galaxies' (196.B-0578, PI: B.Poggianti - http://web.oapd.inaf.it/gasp/). It completes the earlier one and provides deep MUSE 3D cubes observed in wide field mode and natural seeing plus ancillary products, comprising the observations taken from P99 to P101.

Due to a technical database issue, the publishing of new science processed data via the Virtual Observatory (VO) programmatic interface has been put on-hold.

Due to a bug in the pipeline recipe, all reduced science data taken with the Fabry Perot in the time frame Feb 2nd to April 16th at 13:14 UT exhibit a radial velocity offset, which in the last days amounted to already -13.6 m/s.

We are working in reprocessing the data and make the newly generated versions available via the ESO interfaces.

A new Archive News will inform you when all affected data will have been cured.

The Archive Science Portal (ASP) provides the primary entry point for interactive searching and browsing of the ESO Science Archive in terms of processed data sets. So far, the Archive Science Portal supports searching for one target at a time. Because many users requested it, the possibility of searching by a user-provided list of targets has been added. In the first implementation of this feature the list may contain up to 1000 target names or coordinates (J2000 or galactic). The power of the existing graphical user interface remains fully available in the list search mode, including the option of adding and adjusting any of the seventeen non-positional search parameters. The new software release also features a refurbished download menu to accommodate downloading the results of the list search and it includes several bug fixes.