Astrophysical potential of the AMBER/VLTI instrument

Fabien Malbet; Thomas Bloecker; Renaud Foy; Didier Fraix-Burnet; Philippe Mathias; Alesssandro Marconi; Jean-Louis Monin; Romain Gueorguiev Petrov; Philippe Stee; Leonardo Testi; Gerd Weigelt

doi:10.1117/12.458907

21 February 2003 Astrophysical potential of the AMBER/VLTI instrument

Fabien Malbet, Thomas Bloecker, Renaud Foy, Didier Fraix-Burnet, Philippe Mathias, Alesssandro Marconi, Jean-Louis Monin, Romain Gueorguiev Petrov, Philippe Stee, Leonardo Testi, Gerd Weigelt

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Proceedings Volume 4838, Interferometry for Optical Astronomy II; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.458907
Event: Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, 2002, Waikoloa, Hawai'i, United States

Abstract

AMBER is the near-infrared instrument of the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI). With a spectral resolution up to 10000 in the 1.2-2.4 micron wavelength range, AMBER will offer the possibility to combine 3 beams from the VLTI array either 8-m or 1.8m telescopes. The instrument has been designed to bring high precision measurement and high sensitivity and therefore opens the way to new domain of investigation in stellar physics and for the first time access to extragalactic sources. We show how the performance of the instrument can apply in these different astrophysical fields. We present the work of the Science Group and the AMBER consortium who defined precise astrophysical goals for the first years of operation.

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Fabien Malbet, Thomas Bloecker, Renaud Foy, Didier Fraix-Burnet, Philippe Mathias, Alesssandro Marconi, Jean-Louis Monin, Romain Gueorguiev Petrov, Philippe Stee, Leonardo Testi, and Gerd Weigelt "Astrophysical potential of the AMBER/VLTI instrument", Proc. SPIE 4838, Interferometry for Optical Astronomy II, (21 February 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.458907

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