Astrophysical potential of the AMBER/VLTI instrument

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4838, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 917-923

  Malbet, Fabien ^a,g   Blöcker, Thomas ^b   Foy, Renaud ^c   Fraix Burnet, Didier ^a   Mathias, Philippe ^d   Marconi, Alessandro ^e   Monin, Jean Louis ^a   Petrov, Romain G ^f   Stee, Philippe ^d   Testi, Leonardo ^e   Weigelt, Gerd ^b  

^a LABORATOIRE D ASTROPHYSIQUE   (France)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR RADIOASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^c CENTRE DE RECHERCHE ASTROPHYSIQUE DE LYON   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^e INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI ARCETRI   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^g Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Grenoble   (France)

Author keywords

Astronomy; Astrophysics; Infrared; Interferometry; Large telescopes; Optical

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; INFRARED INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PLANETS;

VERY LARGE TELESCOPE INTERFEROMETER (VLTI);

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 0038399857     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.458907     Document Type: Conference Paper

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