VLTI status update: a decade of operations and beyond

Antoine Mérand; Roberto Abuter; Emmanuel Aller-Carpentier; Luigi Andolfato; Jaime Alonso; Jean-Philippe Berger; Guillaume Blanchard; Henri Boffin; Pierre Bourget; Paul Bristow; Claudia Cid; Willem-Jan de Wit; Diego del Valle; Françoise Delplancke-Ströbele; Frédéric Derie; Lorena Faundez; Steve Ertel; Rebekka Grellmann; Philippe Gitton; Andreas Glindemann; Patricia Guajardo; Sylvain Guieu; Stéphane Guisard; Serge Guniat; Pierre Haguenauer; Cristian Herrera; Christian Hummel; Carlos La Fuente; Marcelo Lopez; Pedro Mardones; Sébastien Morel; André Müller; Isabelle Percheron; Than Phan Duc; Andres Pino; Sébastien Poupar; Eszter Pozna; Andres Ramirez; Srihdaran Rengaswamy; Lionel Rivas; Thomas Rivinius; Alex Segovia; Christian Schmid; Markus Schöller; Nicolas Schuhler; Julien Woillez; Markus Wittkowski

doi:10.1117/12.2057150

24 July 2014 VLTI status update: a decade of operations and beyond

Antoine Mérand, Roberto Abuter, Emmanuel Aller-Carpentier, Luigi Andolfato, Jaime Alonso, Jean-Philippe Berger, Guillaume Blanchard, Henri Boffin, Pierre Bourget, Paul Bristow, Claudia Cid, Willem-Jan de Wit, Diego del Valle, Françoise Delplancke-Ströbele, Frédéric Derie, Lorena Faundez, Steve Ertel, Rebekka Grellmann, Philippe Gitton, Andreas Glindemann, Patricia Guajardo, Sylvain Guieu, Stéphane Guisard, Serge Guniat, Pierre Haguenauer, Cristian Herrera, Christian Hummel, Carlos La Fuente, Marcelo Lopez, Pedro Mardones, Sébastien Morel, André Müller, Isabelle Percheron, Than Phan Duc, Andres Pino, Sébastien Poupar, Eszter Pozna, Andres Ramirez, Srihdaran Rengaswamy, Lionel Rivas, Thomas Rivinius, Alex Segovia, Christian Schmid, Markus Schöller, Nicolas Schuhler, Julien Woillez, Markus Wittkowski

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Proceedings Volume 9146, Optical and Infrared Interferometry IV; 91460J (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2057150
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2014, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Abstract

We present the latest update of the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope interferometer (VLTI). The operations of VLTI have greatly improved in the past years: reduction of the execution time; better offering of telescopes configurations; improvements on AMBER limiting magnitudes; study of polarization effects and control for single mode fibres; fringe tracking real time data, etc. We present some of these improvements and also quantify the operational improvements using a performance metric. We take the opportunity of the first decade of operations to reflect on the VLTI community which is analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. Finally, we present briefly the preparatory work for the arrival of the second generation instruments GRAVITY and MATISSE.

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Antoine Mérand, Roberto Abuter, Emmanuel Aller-Carpentier, Luigi Andolfato, Jaime Alonso, Jean-Philippe Berger, Guillaume Blanchard, Henri Boffin, Pierre Bourget, Paul Bristow, Claudia Cid, Willem-Jan de Wit, Diego del Valle, Françoise Delplancke-Ströbele, Frédéric Derie, Lorena Faundez, Steve Ertel, Rebekka Grellmann, Philippe Gitton, Andreas Glindemann, Patricia Guajardo, Sylvain Guieu, Stéphane Guisard, Serge Guniat, Pierre Haguenauer, Cristian Herrera, Christian Hummel, Carlos La Fuente, Marcelo Lopez, Pedro Mardones, Sébastien Morel, André Müller, Isabelle Percheron, Than Phan Duc, Andres Pino, Sébastien Poupar, Eszter Pozna, Andres Ramirez, Srihdaran Rengaswamy, Lionel Rivas, Thomas Rivinius, Alex Segovia, Christian Schmid, Markus Schöller, Nicolas Schuhler, Julien Woillez, and Markus Wittkowski "VLTI status update: a decade of operations and beyond", Proc. SPIE 9146, Optical and Infrared Interferometry IV, 91460J (24 July 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2057150

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