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20102025
most cited4MOST: Project overview and information for the First Call for Proposals

311 citations · 701 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

astro-ph.EP2025

The MATISSE view of the inner region of the RY Tau protoplanetary disk

J. S. Martin, J. Kobus, J. Varga +44

The T-Tauri type young stellar object RY Tau exhibits a dust depleted inner cavity characteristic of a transition disk. We constrain the spatial distribution and mineralogy of dust…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 2 cited

ANDES, the high resolution spectrograph for the ELT: science goals, project overview and future developments

A. Marconi, M. Abreu, V. Adibekyan +286

The first generation of ELT instruments includes an optical-infrared high-resolution spectrograph, indicated as ELT-HIRES and recently christened ANDES (ArmazoNes high Dispersion E…

astro-ph.IM2024

ANDES, the high-resolution spectrograph for the ELT: RIZ Spectrograph preliminary design

Bruno Chazelas, Yevgeniy Ivanisenko, Audrey Lanotte +44

We present here the preliminary design of the RIZ module, one of the visible spectrographs of the ANDES instrument 1. It is a fiber-fed high-resolution, high-stability spectrograph…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 5 cited

Locating dust and molecules in the inner circumstellar environment of R~Sculptoris with MATISSE

Julien Drevon, Florentin Millour, Pierre Cruzalèbes +49

AGB stars are one of the main sources of dust production in the Galaxy. However, it is not clear what this process looks like and where the dust is condensing in the circumstellar…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 96 cited

Thermal imaging of dust hiding the black hole in the Active Galaxy NGC 1068

Violeta Gamez Rosas, Jacob W. Isbell, Walter Jaffe +49

In the widely accepted 'Unified Model' solution of the classification puzzle of Active Galactic Nuclei, the orientation of a dusty accretion torus around the central black hole dom…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 12 cited

The extended atmosphere and circumstellar environment of the cool evolved star VX Sagittarii as seen by MATISSE

A. Chiavassa, K. Kravchenko, M. Montargès +50

Context. VX Sgr is a cool, evolved, and luminous red star whose stellar parameters are difficult to determine, which affects its classification. Aims. We aim to spatially resolve t…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 14 cited

VLTI-MATISSE L- and N-band aperture-synthesis imaging of the unclassified B[e] star FS Canis Majoris

K. -H. Hofmann, A. Bensberg, D. Schertl +58

Context: FS Canis Majoris (FS CMa, HD 45677) is an unclassified B[e] star surrounded by an inclined dust disk. The evolutionary stage of FS CMa is still debated. Perpendicular to t…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 12 cited

First MATISSE L-band observations of HD 179218. Is the inner 10 au region rich in carbon dust particles?

E. Kokoulina, A. Matter, B. Lopez +58

Carbon is one of the most abundant components in the Universe. While silicates have been the main focus of solid phase studies in protoplanetary discs (PPDs), little is known about…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 12 cited

Mid-infrared circumstellar emission of the long-period Cepheid l Carinae resolved with VLTI/MATISSE

V. Hocdé, N. Nardetto, A. Matter +149

The nature of circumstellar envelopes (CSE) around Cepheids is still a matter of debate. The physical origin of their infrared (IR) excess could be either a shell of ionized gas, o…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 43 cited

The asymmetric inner disk of the Herbig Ae star HD 163296 in the eyes of VLTI/MATISSE: evidence for a vortex?

J. Varga, M. Hogerheijde, R. van Boekel +133

Context. The inner few au region of planet-forming disks is a complex environment. High angular resolution observations have a key role in understanding the disk structure and the…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 311 cited

4MOST: Project overview and information for the First Call for Proposals

R. S. de Jong, O. Agertz, A. Agudo Berbel +335

We introduce the 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST), a new high-multiplex, wide-field spectroscopic survey facility under development for the four-metre-class Vis…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 1 cited

An overview of the mid-infrared spectro-interferometer MATISSE: science, concept, and current status

A. Matter, B. Lopez, P. Antonelli +104

MATISSE is the second-generation mid-infrared spectrograph and imager for the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) at Paranal. This new interferometric instrument will allow…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 22 cited

Infrared Narrow-Band Tomography of the Local Starburst NGC 1569 with LBT/LUCIFER

A. Pasquali, A. Bik, S. Zibetti +24

We used the near-IR imager/spectrograph LUCIFER mounted on the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) to image, with sub-arcsec seeing, the local dwarf starburst NGC 1569 in the JHK bands…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 171 cited

Black Hole Mass Estimates Based on CIV are Consistent with Those Based on the Balmer Lines

R. J. Assef, K. D. Denney, C. S. Kochanek +39

Using a sample of high-redshift lensed quasars from the CASTLES project with observed-frame ultraviolet or optical and near-infrared spectra, we have searched for possible biases b…