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The Very Large Telescope Interferometer Challenges for the Future

  • Paulo J. V. Garcia
  • Andreas Glindemann
  • Thomas Henning
  • Fabien Malbet
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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Interferometry Primers

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 1-1
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    2. Interferometry Theory Primer
      David Mouillet
      Pages 3-15
    3. Optical Interferometry — A Practice Primer
      Markus Schöller
      Pages 17-31

  3. The VLTI and Other Interferometers

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 33-33
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    2. The VLTI — A Status Report
      A. Glindemann, J. Algomedo, R. Amestica, P. Ballester, B. Bauvir, E. Bugueño et al.
      Pages 35-44
    3. Interferometry with the Large Binocular Telescope
      Tom Herbst
      Pages 45-53

  4. VLTI Instruments and Tools

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 55-55
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    2. Introducing the Near Infrared VLTI Instrument AMBER to Its Users
      Romain G. Petrov, The Amber Consortium
      Pages 57-67
    3. Preparation of the AMBER Integrations
      Carla Gil, Karine Perraut, Olivier Preis
      Pages 69-72
    4. MIDI — The 10 μm Instrument on the VLTI
      Christoph Leinert, Uwe Graser, Frank Przygodda, Laurens B. F. M. Waters, Guy Perrin, Walter Jaffe et al.
      Pages 73-83
    5. Interferometric Observation at MID-Infrared Wave-Lengths with MIDI
      Frank Przygodda, O. Chesneau, U. Graser, Ch. Leinert, S. Morel
      Pages 85-91
    6. Genie — The Darwin Demonstrator
      Malcolm Fridlund, Philippe Gondoin
      Pages 93-98
    7. PRIMA for the VLTI — Science
      F. Delplancke, F. Derie, F. Paresce, A. Glindemann, F. Lévy, S. Lévêque et al.
      Pages 99-104
    8. The VLTI Calibrators Program: Getting Ready for High Accuracy Measurements
      Isabelle Percheron, Andrea Richichi, Markus Wittkowski
      Pages 105-112
    9. 2D/3D Dust Continuum Radiative Transfer Codes to Analyze and Predict VLTI Observations
      Ilaria Pascucci, Thomas Henning, Jürgen Steinacker, Sebastian Wolf
      Pages 113-118
    10. Scientific and Technical Results from VINCI Using Coherent Estimation of Fringe Visibility
      J. A. Meisner
      Pages 119-127

  5. Interferometric Science

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 129-129
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    2. Probing the Close Environment of Young Stellar Objects with Interferometry
      Fabien Malbet
      Pages 131-144
    3. Palomar Testbed Interferometer Observations of Young Stellar Objects
      F. P. Wilkin, R. L. Akeson
      Pages 145-150
    4. Probing the Magnetosphere in Young Stars with AMBER/VLTI
      C. Dougados, J. Bouvier, G. Duvert, P. J. V. Garcia, D. F. M. Folha
      Pages 151-156
    5. Unveiling the Launching Region of YSO Jets with Amber
      Francesca Bacciotti, Leonardo Testi, Alessandro Marconi, Paulo J. V. Garcia, Thomas P. Ray, Jochen Eislöffel et al.
      Pages 157-162
    6. Imaging Stars and Their Environments with the VLTI
      Christopher Haniff
      Pages 163-170
    7. Imaging with AMBER/VLTI: The Case of Microjets
      E. Thiébaut, P. J. V. Garcia, R. Foy
      Pages 171-176
    8. Pulsating Stars
      Benjamin F. Lane
      Pages 177-183
    9. Cepheid Limb Darkening Models for the VLTI
      Massimo Marengo, Margarita Karovska, Dimitar D. Sasselov, Costas Papaliolios, J. T. Armstrong, Tyler E. Nordgren
      Pages 185-190
    10. Prospects of High Angular Resolution Measurements of Binary Stars Properties with VLTI
      S. Correia, A. Richichi, M. Schöller
      Pages 191-196
    11. Interferometry: The Tool to Study Giant, Supergiant and Mira Stars
      Guy Perrin
      Pages 197-212
    12. Synthetic Radii and Visibilities for Pulsating Red Giants
      Josef Hron, Walter Nowotny, Rita Gautschy-Loidl, Susanne Höfner
      Pages 213-218
    13. First VLTI Observations of Mira Stars
      Andrea Richichi, Markus Wittkowski
      Pages 219-224
    14. Active Hot Star Shells
      Philippe Stee
      Pages 225-236
    15. The Wolf-Rayet Stars at High (Spatial) Resolution
      A. Niedzielski
      Pages 237-244
    16. Extragalactic Astronomy with the VLTI: A New Window on the Universe
      Alessandro Marconi, Roberto Maiolino, Romain G. Petrov
      Pages 245-254
    17. Potential of the VLTI for Linking Stellar Frames to ICRF
      Gérard Daigne, Patrick Charlot, Christine Ducourant, Jean-François Lestrade
      Pages 255-260
    18. Distances on Cosmological Scales with VLTI
      Margarita Karovska, Martin Elvis, Massimo Marengo
      Pages 261-266

  6. The VLTI Future

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 267-267
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    2. Long Range Science Perspectives for the VLTI
      A. Eckart, T. Bertram, N. Mouawad, T. Viehmann, C. Straubmeier, J. Zuther
      Pages 269-276
    3. Next Generation Instrumentation for the Very Large Telescope Interferometer
      A. Quirrenbach
      Pages 277-289
    4. Second Generation Instrumentation for the VLTI: The French VLTI Connection
      Denis Mourard, Olivier Lardiere, Bruno Lopez, Fabien Malbet, Philippe Stee
      Pages 291-296
    5. The VLTI: Challenges for the Future
      Francesco Paresce
      Pages 297-309
  7. Back Matter
    Pages 311-312
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About this book

Keywords

astronomy astrophysics instruments optical interferometry relativistic jet

Editors and affiliations

  • Paulo J. V. Garcia
    • 1
  • Andreas Glindemann
    • 2
  • Thomas Henning
    • 3
  • Fabien Malbet
    • 4
  1. 1.Departamento de Física da Faculade de EngenhariaCentro de Astrofísica da Universidade do PortoPortoPortugal
  2. 2.European Southern ObservatoryGarchingGermany
  3. 3.Max-Planck-Institut für AstronomieHeidelbergGermany
  4. 4.Universite Joseph FourierLaboratoire d’Astrophysique de GrenobleGrenoble Cedex 9France

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0157-0
  • Copyright Information Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2003
  • Publisher Name Springer, Dordrecht
  • eBook Packages Springer Book Archive
  • Print ISBN 978-90-481-6379-3
  • Online ISBN 978-94-017-0157-0
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