Bibcode
Schöller, Markus; Argomedo, Javier; Bauvir, Bertrand; Blanco-Lopez, Leonardo; Bonnet, Henri; Brillant, Stephane; Cantzler, Michael; Carstens, Johan; Caruso, Fabio; Choque-Cortez, Christian; Derie, Frederic; Delplancke, Francoise; Di Lieto, Nicola; Dimmler, Martin; Durand, Yves; Ferrari, Mark; Galliano, Emmanuel; Gitton, Philippe; Gilli, Bruno; Glindemann, Andreas; Guniat, Serge; Guisard, Stephane; Haddad, Nicolas; Haguenauer, Pierre; Housen, Nico; Hudepohl, Gerd; Hummel, Christian; Kaufer, Andreas; Kiekebusch, Mario; Koehler, Bertrand; Le Bouquin, Jean-Baptiste; Leveque, Samuel; Lidman, Christopher; Mardones, Pedro; Menardi, Serge; Morel, Sebastien; Mornhinweg, Manfred; Nicoud, Jean-Luc; Percheron, Isabelle; Petr-Gotzens, Monika; Duc, Than Phan; Puech, Florence; Ramirez, Andres; Rantakyrö, Fredrik; Richichi, Andrea; Rivinius, Thomas; Sandrock, Stefan; Somboli, Fabio; Spyromilio, Jason; Stefl, Stanislav; Suc, Vincent; Tamai, Roberto; Tapia, Mario; Vannier, Martin; Vasisht, Gautam; Wallander, Anders; Wehner, Stefan; Wittkowski, Markus; Zagal, Juan
Referencia bibliográfica
Advances in Stellar Interferometry. Edited by Monnier, John D.; Schöller, Markus; Danchi, William C.. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 6268, pp. 62680L (2006).
Fecha de publicación:
7
2006
Número de citas
0
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Descripción
The ESO Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) is the first
general-user interferometer that offers near- and mid-infrared
long-baseline interferometric observations in service and visitor mode
to the whole astronomical community. Over the last two years, the VLTI
has moved into its regular science operation mode with the two science
instruments, MIDI and AMBER, both on all four 8m Unit Telescopes and the
first three 1.8m Auxiliary Telescopes. We are currently devoting up to
half of the available time for science, the rest is used for
characterization and improvement of the existing system, plus additional
installations. Since the first fringes with the VLTI on a star were
obtained on March 17, 2001, there have been five years of scientific
observations, with the different instruments, different telescopes and
baselines. These observations have led so far to more than 40 refereed
publications. We describe the current status of the VLTI and give an
outlook for its near future.