Science program of the AMBER consortium

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5491, Issue PART 3, 2004, Pages 1722-1732

  Malbet, Fabien ^a   Driebe, Thomas ^b   Foy, Renaud ^c   Fraix Burnet, Didier ^a   Mathias, Philippe ^d   Marconi, Alessandro ^e   Monin, Jean Louis ^a   Petrov, Romain ^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 DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

Author keywords

Astrophysics; High angular resolution; Optical interferometry

Indexed keywords

GALAXIES; INFRARED RADIATION; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; WIND EFFECTS;

COSMOLOGY; HIGH ANGULAR RESOLUTION; OPTICAL INTERFEROMETRY; VERY LARGE TELESCOPE INTERFEROMETERS (VLTI);

ASTROPHYSICS;

EID: 19944384541     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.550667     Document Type: Conference Paper

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