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Next Generation Instrumentation for the Very Large Telescope Interferometer

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The scientific capabilities of the VLT Interferometer can be substantially enhanced through new focal-plane instruments. Many interferometric techniques — astrometry, phase-referenced imaging, nulling, and differential phase measurements — require control of the phase to ≲ 1 rad; this capability will be provided at the VLTI by the PRIMA facility. Phase-coherent operation of the VLTI will also make it possible to perform interferometry with spectral resolution up to R ~100, 000 by building fiber links to the high-resolution spectrographs UVES and CRIRES. These developments will open new approaches to fundamental problems in fields as diverse as extrasolar planets, stellar atmospheres, circumstellar matter, and active galactic nuclei.

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  1. Departamento de Física da Faculade de Engenharia, Centro de Astrofísica da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

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  2. European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2, 85748, Garching, Germany

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  3. Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Königstuhl 17, 69117, Heidelberg, Germany

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  4. Universite Joseph Fourier, Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Grenoble, 38041, Grenoble Cedex 9, France

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Quirrenbach, A. (2003). Next Generation Instrumentation for the Very Large Telescope Interferometer. 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_32

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