VLTI technical advances: present and future

Andreas Glindemann; Maja Albertsen; Luigi Andolfato; Gerardo Avila; Pascal Ballester; Bertrand Bauvir; Francoise Delplancke; Frederic Derie; Martin Dimmler; Philippe Duhoux; Emmanuel di Folco; R. Frahm; Emmanuel Galliano; Bruno Gilli; Paul N. Giordano; Philippe B. Gitton; Stephane Guisard; Nico Housen; Christian A. Hummel; Alexis Huxley; Robert Karban; Pierre Kervella; Mario Kiekebusch; Bertrand Koehler; Samuel A. Leveque; Tom Licha; Antonio Longinotti; Derek J. McKay; Serge Menardi; Guy J. Monnet; Sebastien Morel; Francesco Paresce; Isabelle Percheron; Monika Petr-Gotzens; Thanh Phan Duc; Joerg-Uwe Pott; Florence Puech; Fredrik T. Rantakyro; Andrea Richichi; Cyrus Sabet; Kevin L. Scales; Markus Schoeller; N. Schuhler; Mario van den Ancker; Martin Vannier; Anders Wallander; Markus Wittkowski; Rainer C. Wilhelm

doi:10.1117/12.551468

20 October 2004 VLTI technical advances: present and future

Andreas Glindemann, Maja Albertsen, Luigi Andolfato, Gerardo Avila, Pascal Ballester, Bertrand Bauvir, Francoise Delplancke, Frederic Derie, Martin Dimmler, Philippe Duhoux, Emmanuel di Folco, R. Frahm, Emmanuel Galliano, Bruno Gilli, Paul N. Giordano, Philippe B. Gitton, Stephane Guisard, Nico Housen, Christian A. Hummel, Alexis Huxley, Robert Karban, Pierre Kervella, Mario Kiekebusch, Bertrand Koehler, Samuel A. Leveque, Tom Licha, Antonio Longinotti, Derek J. McKay, Serge Menardi, Guy J. Monnet, Sebastien Morel, Francesco Paresce, Isabelle Percheron, Monika Petr-Gotzens, Thanh Phan Duc, Joerg-Uwe Pott, Florence Puech, Fredrik T. Rantakyro, Andrea Richichi, Cyrus Sabet, Kevin L. Scales, Markus Schoeller, N. Schuhler, Mario van den Ancker, Martin Vannier, Anders Wallander, Markus Wittkowski, Rainer C. Wilhelm

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Proceedings Volume 5491, New Frontiers in Stellar Interferometry; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.551468
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2004, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Abstract

The Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) on Cerro Paranal (2635 m) in Northern Chile reached a major milestone in September 2003 when the mid infrared instrument MIDI was offered for scientific observations to the community. This was only nine months after MIDI had recorded first fringes. In the meantime, the near infrared instrument AMBER saw first fringes in March 2004, and it is planned to offer AMBER in September 2004. The large number of subsystems that have been installed in the last two years - amongst them adaptive optics for the 8-m Unit Telescopes (UT), the first 1.8-m Auxiliary Telescope (AT), the fringe tracker FINITO and three more Delay Lines for a total of six, only to name the major ones - will be described in this article. We will also discuss the next steps of the VLTI mainly concerned with the dual feed system PRIMA and we will give an outlook to possible future extensions.

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Andreas Glindemann, Maja Albertsen, Luigi Andolfato, Gerardo Avila, Pascal Ballester, Bertrand Bauvir, Francoise Delplancke, Frederic Derie, Martin Dimmler, Philippe Duhoux, Emmanuel di Folco, R. Frahm, Emmanuel Galliano, Bruno Gilli, Paul N. Giordano, Philippe B. Gitton, Stephane Guisard, Nico Housen, Christian A. Hummel, Alexis Huxley, Robert Karban, Pierre Kervella, Mario Kiekebusch, Bertrand Koehler, Samuel A. Leveque, Tom Licha, Antonio Longinotti, Derek J. McKay, Serge Menardi, Guy J. Monnet, Sebastien Morel, Francesco Paresce, Isabelle Percheron, Monika Petr-Gotzens, Thanh Phan Duc, Joerg-Uwe Pott, Florence Puech, Fredrik T. Rantakyro, Andrea Richichi, Cyrus Sabet, Kevin L. Scales, Markus Schoeller, N. Schuhler, Mario van den Ancker, Martin Vannier, Anders Wallander, Markus Wittkowski, and Rainer C. Wilhelm "VLTI technical advances: present and future", Proc. SPIE 5491, New Frontiers in Stellar Interferometry, (20 October 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.551468

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