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Hunting exomoons with a kilometric baseline interferometer
Thomas O. Winterhalder, Antoine Mérand, Sylvestre Lacour +3
Despite numerous search campaigns based on a diverse set of observational techniques, exomoons - prospective satellites of extrasolar planets - remain an elusive and hard-to-pin-do…
GRAVITY+ adaptive optics (GPAO) tests in Europe
Florentin Millour, Guillaume Bourdarot, Jean-Baptiste Le Bouquin +54
We present in this proceeding the results of the test phase of the GRAVITY+ adaptive optics. This extreme AO will enable both high-dynamic range observations of faint companions (i…
On the Orbit of the Binary Brown Dwarf Companion GL229 Ba and Bb
William Thompson, Dori Blakely, Jerry W. Xuan +21
The companion GL229B was recently resolved by Xuan et al. (2024) as a tight binary of two brown dwarfs (Ba and Bb) through VLTI-GRAVITY interferometry and VLT-CRIRES+ RV measuremen…
The S stars' zone of avoidance in the Galactic center
Aleksey Generozov, Hagai B. Perets, Matteo S. Bordoni +9
This paper investigates the origin and orbital evolution of S stars in the Galactic center using models of binary disruption and relaxation processes. We focus on explaining the re…
Blind and robust reconstruction of adaptive optics point spread functions for asteroid deconvolution and moon detection
Anthony Berdeu, Férréol Soulez, Kate Minker +4
Initially designed to detect and characterize exoplanets, extreme adaptive optics systems (AO) open a new window on the solar system by resolving its small bodies. Nonetheless, des…
Simplified model(s) of the GRAVITY+ adaptive optics system(s) for performance prediction
Anthony Berdeu, Jean-Baptiste Le Bouquin, Guillaume Mella +13
In the context of the GRAVITY+ upgrade, the adaptive optics (AO) systems of the GRAVITY interferometer are undergoing a major lifting. The current CILAS deformable mirrors (DM, 90…
Open loop calibration and closed loop non-perturbative estimation of the lateral errors of an adaptive optics system: examples with GRAVITY+ and CHARA experimental data
Anthony Berdeu, Henri Bonnet, Jean-Baptiste Le Bouquin +15
Performances of an adaptive optics (AO) system are directly linked with the quality of its alignment. During the instrument calibration, having open loop fast tools with a large ca…
GRAVITY+ Wavefront Sensors: High-Contrast, Laser Guide Star, Adaptive Optics systems for the VLTI
G. Bourdarot, F. Eisenhauer, S. Yazıcı +53
We present the Wavefront Sensor units of the Gravity Plus Adaptive Optics (GPAO) system, which will equip all 8m class telescopes of the VLTI and is an instrumental part of the GRA…
Observations of Microlensed Images with Dual-field Interferometry: On-sky Demonstration and Prospects
P. Mroz, S. Dong, A. Merand +57
Interferometric observations of gravitational microlensing events offer an opportunity for precise, efficient, and direct mass and distance measurements of lensing objects, especia…
GRAVITY+ Wide: Towards hundreds of z 2 AGN
A. Drescher, M. Fabricius, T. Shimizu +34
As part of the GRAVITY project, the near-infrared beam combiner GRAVITY and the VLTI are currently undergoing a series of significant upgrades to further improve the performa…
GRAVITY faint: reducing noise sources in GRAVITY with a fast metrology attenuation system
F. Widmann, S. Gillessen, T. Ott +28
With the upgrade from GRAVITY to GRAVITY the instrument will evolve into an all-sky interferometer that can observe faint targets, such as high redshift AGN. Observing the fain…
Toward a large bandwidth photonic correlator for infrared heterodyne interferometry
Guillaume Bourdarot, Hugues Guillet de Chatellus, Jean-Philippe Berger
Infrared heterodyne interferometry has been proposed as a practical alternative for recombining a large number of telescopes over kilometric baselines in the mid-infrared. However,…
NAOMI: the adaptive optics system of the Auxiliary Telescopes of the VLTI
Woillez J., Abad J. A., Abuter R. +80
The tip-tilt stabilisation system of the 1.8 m Auxiliary Telescopes of the Very Large Telescope Interferometer was never dimensioned for robust fringe tracking, except when atmosph…