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The four main scientific objectives of PRIMA — the Phase-Referenced Imaging and Microarcsecond Astrometry facility for the VLTI — will be described:
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extra-solar system characterization with astrometry, to detect planets and evaluate their mass, and imaging of the dust accretion disk,
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galactic center study with astrometry(dynamics of the bulge stars) and imaging at 10 μm (piercing the gas and dust clouds surrounding the galactic center),
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observations of AGNs and other extra-galactic objects, too faint to be observed without PRIMA, for which partial imaging is needed to constrain their structure models,
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micro-gravitational lensing event resolution (imaging and astrometry of their photo-center) in the Galactic Bulge and Magellanic Clouds, helping to determine directly the lens mass and distance.
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Delplancke, F. et al. (2003). PRIMA for the VLTI — Science. In: Garcia, P.J.V., Glindemann, A., Henning, T., Malbet, F. (eds) The Very Large Telescope Interferometer Challenges for the Future. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0157-0_10
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