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The Very Large Telescope Interferometer Challenges for the Future

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Table of contents (34 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
  2. Interferometry Primers

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    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
    2. The VLTI — A Status Report

      • A. Glindemann, J. Algomedo, R. Amestica, P. Ballester, B. Bauvir, E. Bugueño et al.
      Pages 35-44
  4. VLTI Instruments and Tools

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 55-55
    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
  5. Interferometric Science

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 129-129

Editors and Affiliations

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

    Paulo J. V. Garcia

  • European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany

    Andreas Glindemann

  • Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Heidelberg, Germany

    Thomas Henning

  • Universite Joseph Fourier, Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Grenoble, Grenoble Cedex 9, France

    Fabien Malbet

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Very Large Telescope Interferometer Challenges for the Future

  • Editors: Paulo J. V. Garcia, Andreas Glindemann, Thomas Henning, Fabien Malbet

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0157-0

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2003

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-1518-2Published: 30 November 2003

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6379-3Published: 01 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-0157-0Published: 11 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 312

  • Additional Information: Reprinted from ASTROPHYSICS AND SPACE SCIENCE, 286:1-2

  • Topics: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques, Astrophysics and Astroparticles

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