VITRUV, a second generation VLTI instrument for aperture synthesis imaging with eight telescopes

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5491, Issue PART 1, 2004, Pages 439-446

  Malbet, Fabien ^a   Berger, Jean Philippe ^a   Kern, Pierre ^a   Rousselet Perraut, Karine ^a   Petrucci, Pierre Olivier ^a   Menard, Francois ^a   Chelli, Alain ^a   Duvert, Gilles ^a   Lebouquin, Jean Baptiste ^a   Tatulli, Eric ^a   Labeye, Pierre ^b   Schanen Duport, Isabelle ^c   Thiebaut, Eric ^d   Garcia, Paulo ^e   Carvalho, I ^e  

^a LABORATOIRE D ASTROPHYSIQUE   (France)

^b CEA LETI   (France)

^c IMEP LAHC   (France)

^d CENTRE DE RECHERCHE ASTROPHYSIQUE DE LYON   (France)

^e CENTRO DE ASTROFÍSICA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Astrophysics; High angular resolution; Optical interferometry

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETISM; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; MORPHOLOGY; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

APERTURE SYNTHESIS IMAGES; HIGH ANGULAR RESOLUTION; IMAGE DYNAMICS; MILLIMETER-WAVE RADIOINTERFEROMETER;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 19944367246     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.550673     Document Type: Conference Paper

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