Commissioning the VLT interferometer - From first fringes towards a general user facility

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4838, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 870-880

  Scholler M ^a   Gitton, P ^a   Argomedo, J ^a   Ballester, P ^b   Bauvir, B ^a   Van Boekel, R ^b   Cantzler, M ^a   Correia, S ^b   Cotton, W ^c,e   Delplancke, F ^b   Derie, F ^b   Duhoux, P ^b   Erm, T ^a   Di Folco, E ^b   Coude du Forested, V ^d   Gennai, A ^b   Gilli, B ^b   Giordano, P ^a   Glindemann, A ^b   Guisard, S ^a   Gutierrez, P ^a   Housen, N ^a   Hudepohl, G ^a   Huxley, A ^b   Jackisch, S ^a   Jaffe, W ^e   Kervella, P ^a   Van Kesteren, A ^b   Kiekebusch, M ^a   Koehler, B ^b   Leveque, S ^b   Longinotti, A ^b   Menardi, S ^b   Morel, S ^a   Noethe, L ^b   Paresce, F ^b   Percheron, I ^e   Phan Duc, T ^b   Pino, A ^a   Rabeling, D ^a   Ramirez, A ^a   Robbe, S ^f   Richichi, A ^b   Rijo, A ^a   Sabet, C ^b   Sandrock, S ^a   Segransan, D ^g   Spyromilio, J ^b   Tamai, R ^a   Tarenghi, M ^b   Wallander, A ^b   Wilhelm, R ^b   Wittkowski, M ^a   more..

^a EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^b EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^d OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^e LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^g UNIVERSITÉ DE GENÈVE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Commissioning; Optical long baseline interferometry; VLTI

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; INTERFEROMETRY; MEASUREMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

VERY LARGE TELESCOPE INTERFEROMETERS (VLTI);

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 0038325746     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.459678     Document Type: Conference Paper

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