papers

Publications (7)

astro-ph.IM2024

Pushing high angular resolution and high contrast observations on the VLTI from Y to L band with the Asgard instrumental suite: integration status and plans

Marc-Antoine Martinod, Denis Defrère, Michael J. Ireland +35

ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer has a history of record-breaking discoveries in astrophysics and significant advances in instrumentation. The next leap forward is its new…

astro-ph.IM2024

The GLINT nulling interferometer: improving nulls for high-contrast imaging

Eckhart Spalding, Elizabeth Arcadi, Glen Douglass +13

GLINT is a nulling interferometer downstream of the SCExAO extreme-adaptive-optics system at the Subaru Telescope (Hawaii, USA), and is a pathfinder instrument for high-contrast im…

astro-ph.IM2025

On-sky Demonstration of Subdiffraction-limited Astronomical Measurement Using a Photonic Lantern

Yoo Jung Kim, Michael P. Fitzgerald, Sébastien Vievard +18

Resolving fine details of astronomical objects provides critical insights into their underlying physical processes. This drives in part the desire to construct ever-larger telescop…

astro-ph.IM2023

High-angular resolution and high-contrast VLTI observations from Y to L band with the Asgard instrumental suite

Marc-Antoine Martinod, Denis Defrère, Michael Ireland +17

The Very Large Telescope Interferometer is one of the most proficient observatories in the world for high angular resolution. Since its first observations, it has hosted several in…

astro-ph.IM2026

The TOLIMAN mission: A low-cost space telescope for high precision narrow-angle astrometry

Peter Tuthill, Christopher Betters, Max Charles +29

The TOLIMAN project is engaged with the construction, launch and operation of a low-cost space telescope of unorthodox optical design. Its primary science goal targets an exhaustiv…

astro-ph.IM2024

L-band nulling interferometry at the VLTI with Asgard/NOTT: status and plans

Denis Defrère, Romain Laugier, Marc-Antoine Martinod +43

NOTT (formerly Hi-5) is the L'-band (3.5-4.0~microns) nulling interferometer of Asgard, an instrument suite in preparation for the VLTI visitor focus. The primary scientific object…