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astro-ph.IM2025★ 8 cited

First Light for the GRAVITY+ Adaptive Optics: Extreme Adaptive Optics for the Very Large Telescope Interferometer

GRAVITY+ Collaboration, :, F. Allouche +137

GRAVITY+ improves by orders of magnitude the sensitivity, sky-coverage and contrast of the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI). A central part of this project is the develop…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 1 cited

First light of VLT/HiRISE: High-resolution spectroscopy of young giant exoplanets

A. Vigan, M. El Morsy, M. Lopez +46

A major endeavor of this decade is the direct characterization of young giant exoplanets at high spectral resolution to determine the composition of their atmosphere and infer thei…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 42 cited

The Enhanced Resolution Imager and Spectrograph for the VLT

R. Davies, O. Absil, G. Agapito +81

ERIS, the Enhanced Resolution Imager and Spectrograph, is an instrument that both extends and enhances the fundamental diffraction limited imaging and spectroscopy capability for t…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 21 cited

The GRAVITY+ Project: Towards All-sky, Faint-Science, High-Contrast Near-Infrared Interferometry at the VLTI

GRAVITY+ Collaboration, :, Roberto Abuter +134

The GRAVITY instrument has been revolutionary for near-infrared interferometry by pushing sensitivity and precision to previously unknown limits. With the upgrade of GRAVITY and th…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 84 cited

CRIRES on sky at the ESO Very Large Telescope

R. J. Dorn, P. Bristow, J. V. Smoker +49

The CRyogenic InfraRed Echelle Spectrograph (CRIRES) Upgrade project CRIRES extended the capabilities of CRIRES. It transformed this VLT instrument into a cross-dispersed spe…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 31 cited

First Light for GRAVITY Wide: Large Separation Fringe Tracking for the Very Large Telescope Interferometer

GRAVITY+ Collaboration, :, R. Abuter +114

GRAVITY+ is the upgrade of GRAVITY and the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) with wide-separation fringe tracking, new adaptive optics, and laser guide stars on all four 8…

astro-ph.IM2020

Infrared wavefront sensing for adaptive optics assisted Galactic Center observations with the VLT interferometer and GRAVITY: operation and results

Stefan Hippler, Wolfgang Brandner, Silvia Scheithauer +15

This article describes the operation of the near-infrared wavefront sensing based Adaptive Optics (AO) system CIAO. The Coudé Infrared Adaptive Optics (CIAO) system is a central au…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 588 cited

First Light for GRAVITY: Phase Referencing Optical Interferometry for the Very Large Telescope Interferometer

GRAVITY Collaboration, R. Abuter, M. Accardo +130

GRAVITY is a new instrument to coherently combine the light of the European Southern Observatory Very Large Telescope Interferometer to form a telescope with an equivalent 130 m di…