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20222026
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84 citations · 261 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

Mid-IR Water-Vapor Seeing: Implications for ELT/METIS High-Contrast Imaging from VLTI Data

Abhirami S Raghu, Prashant Pathak, Olivier Absil +7

Direct imaging and characterization of rocky exoplanets remains one of the central challenges in exoplanetary science. The mid-infrared (mid-IR) offers a favorable high-contrast im…

astro-ph.IM2026

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, Michael J. Ireland, Denis Defrère +39

ESO's VLTI has a history of record-breaking discoveries in astrophysics using high-angular resolution instrumentation. Its latest visitor instrument, the Asgard instrumental suite,…

astro-ph.IM2026

Maximising the mid-infrared high-contrast performance of ELT/METIS despite water vapour seeing

Olivier Absil, Gilles Orban de Xivry, Prashant Pathak +7

The Mid-infrared ELT Imager and Spectrograph (METIS) will be equipped with a SCAO system delivering Strehl ratios above 90% at L band (3.5 - 4.1 um) and close to 99% at N band (8 -…

astro-ph.GA2026

The MAGPI Survey: Evidence for Non-Universal Resolved Dust Attenuation Relations Beyond the Local Universe

A. Mailvaganam, T. Zafar, P. Corcho-Caballero +39

We study the spatially resolved relation between dust attenuation () and star formation rate surface density () in galaxies from the MAGPI survey ($0.25 < z…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 2 cited

Interferometric view into RT Pav's long secondary period. binary vs oscillatory convective modes

B. Courtney-Barrer, X. Haubois, P. Wood +6

Long secondary periods (LSPs) occur in about one-third of evolved stars, yet their origin remains unclear. The leading explanations are oscillatory convective modes and a binary co…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 1 cited

VLTI Unit Telescope coudé train vibration control upgrade for GRAVITY+

Romain Laugier, Julien Woillez, Denis Defrère +15

Scaling up interferometry to 8m collectors should smooth-out the optical piston perturbations and allow a slow fringe tracker to obtain high precision correction on faint targets.…

astro-ph.IM2024

METIS high-contrast imaging: from final design to manufacturing and testing

Olivier Absil, Matthew Kenworthy, Christian Delacroix +21

The Mid-infrared ELT Imager and Spectrograph (METIS) is one of the first-generation scientific instruments for the ELT, built under the supervision of ESO by a consortium of resear…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 2 cited

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★ 1 cited

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…

astro-ph.IM2024

Heimdallr and Solarstein: alignment, calibration, and correction in the Asgard suite at the VLTI

Adam K. Taras, J. Gordon Robertson, Josh Carter +5

The Asgard instrument suite proposed for the ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) brings with it a new generation of instruments for spectroscopy and nulling. Asgard wi…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 15 cited

Heimdallr, Baldr and Solarstein: designing the next generation of VLTI instruments in the Asgard suite

Adam K. Taras, J. Gordon Robertson, Fatme Allouche +11

High angular resolution imaging is an increasingly important capability in contemporary astrophysics. Of particular relevance to emerging fields such as the characterisation of exo…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 1 cited

Upgrading the GRAVITY fringe tracker for GRAVITY+: Tracking the white light fringe in the non-observable Optical Path Length state-space

M. Nowak, S. Lacour, R. Abuter +35

Aims. As part of the ongoing GRAVITY+ upgrade of the Very Large Telescope Interferometer infrastructure, we aim to improve the performance of the GRAVITY Fringe-Tracker, and to ena…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 63 cited

A dynamical measure of the black hole mass in a quasar 11 billion years ago

R. Abuter, F. Allouche, A. Amorim +124

Tight relationships exist in the local universe between the central stellar properties of galaxies and the mass of their supermassive black hole. These suggest galaxies and black h…

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.IM2023★ 1 cited

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.IM2022★ 28 cited

Asgard/NOTT: L-band nulling interferometry at the VLTI I. Simulating the expected high-contrast performance

Romain Laugier, Denis Defrère, Benjamin Courtney-Barrer +13

Context: NOTT (formerly Hi-5) is a new high-contrast L' band (3.5-4.0 \textmu m) beam combiner for the VLTI with the ambitious goal to be sensitive to young giant exoplanets down t…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 3 cited

Towards a Better Understanding of OPD Limitations for Higher Sensitivity and Contrast at the VLTI

Benjamin Courtney-Barrer, Julien Woillez, Romain Laugier +9

Precise control of the optical path differences (OPD) in the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) was critical for the characterization of the black hole at the center of our…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 8 cited

L-band nulling interferometry at the VLTI with Asgard/Hi-5: status and plans

Denis Defrère, Azzurra Bigioli, Colin Dandumont +34

Hi-5 is the L'-band (3.5-4.0 m) high-contrast imager of Asgard, an instrument suite in preparation for the visitor focus of the VLTI. The system is optimized for high-contrast a…

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…