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

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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