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20232026
most citedA dynamical measure of the black hole mass in a quasar 11 billion years ago

63 citations · 106 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Improving constraints on the Yukawa correction at the Galactic Center with multiple stellar orbits

GRAVITY+ Collaboration, :, A. Foschi +78

We investigate the presence of a Yukawa-like correction () to Newtonian gravity at the Galactic Center, using a multi-star fitting code, including the newly…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

Discovery of a star sensitive to the spin of Sgr A*

K. Abd El Dayem, R. Abuter, N. Aimar +85

Residing in the center of the Milky Way, Sgr A* is the closest massive black hole (MBH). Its vicinity has allowed measuring individual stellar orbits around it. The stars act as te…

astro-ph.EP2026

Using VLTI/GRAVITY+ to determine the identity of a third planet candidate in the PDS 70 system

David Trevascus, Wolfgang Brandner, Olga Balsalobre-Ruza +75

Detections of protoplanets are rare and protoplanetary disk features mischaracterized as planets are common. PDS 70 is one of only two stars known to host multiple confirmed protop…

astro-ph.IM2026

Exploring Exoplanets with Interferometry

Sascha P. Quanz, Bertrand Mennesson, Charles Beichman +27

(Extract from the Executive Summary) Humanity stands at the threshold of answering one of its most profound questions: Does life exist beyond Earth? Ongoing and upcoming space miss…

astro-ph.IM2026

Continuing to Advance European High Contrast Imaging Research and Development towards HWO and LIFE

Gael Chauvin, Oscar Carrion Gonzalez, Iva Laginja +20

The European Research and Development for Space based High Contrast Imaging II Workshop, held at MPIA in May 2025, advanced Europe strategic coordination in support of future exopl…

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.EP2025

Interferometric Detection and Orbit Modeling of the Subcomponent in the Hot-dust System Tuc A: A Low-mass Star on an Eccentric Orbit in a Hierarchical-quintuple System

T. A. Stuber, A. Mérand, F. Kirchschlager +19

The system Tuc A is part of a hierarchical-quintuple system and is a prime target for studies of hot-exozodiacal dust, because a time-variable near-infrared excess has been det…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 8 cited

Exomoon search with VLTI/GRAVITY around the substellar companion HD 206893 B

Q. Kral, J. Wang, J. Kammerer +130

Direct astrometric detection of exomoons remains unexplored. This study presents the first application of high-precision astrometry to search for exomoons around substellar compani…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 2 cited

Asgard/NOTT: L-band nulling interferometry at the VLTI -- III. The mid-infrared integrated optics beam combiner for NOTT

A. Sanny, L. Labadie, S. Gross +6

The NOTT visitor instrument at the VLTI will characterize hot exozodiacal dust and young Jupiter-like planets at the water snowline via L' band nulling interferometry. The beam com…

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.GA2025★ 11 cited

Spatially resolved broad line region in a quasar at z=4: Dynamical black hole mass and prominent outflow

GRAVITY+ Collaboration, K. Abd El Dayem, N. Aimar +92

We present the first near-infrared interferometric data of a QSO at z=4. The K-band observations were performed with GRAVITY+ on the VLTI using all four UTs, detecting a differenti…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 5 cited

First Resolution of Microlensed Images of a Binary-Lens Event

Zexuan Wu, Subo Dong, A. Mérand +72

We resolve the multiple images of the binary-lens microlensing event ASASSN-22av using the GRAVITY instrument of the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI). The light curves sh…

eess.SP2024★ 5 cited

Estimation of the lateral mis-registrations of the GRAVITY + adaptive optics system

Anthony Berdeu, H. Bonnet, J. -B. Le Bouquin +16

Context. The GRAVITY+ upgrade implies a complete renewal of its adaptive optics (AO) systems. Its complex design, featuring moving components between the deformable mirrors and the…

astro-ph.IM2024

High contrast at short separation with VLTI/GRAVITY: Bringing Gaia companions to light

N. Pourré, T. O. Winterhalder, J. -B. Le Bouquin +173

Since 2019, GRAVITY has provided direct observations of giant planets and brown dwarfs at separations of down to 95 mas from the host star. Some of these observations have provided…

astro-ph.IM2024

Improving mid-infrared thermal background subtraction with Principal Component Analysis

Hélène Rousseau, Steve Ertel, Denis Defrère +2

Ground-based large-aperture telescopes, interferometers, and future Extremely Large Telescopes equipped with adaptive-optics systems provide angular resolution and high-contrast pe…

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.GA2023

Using the motion of S2 to constrain vector clouds around SgrA*

GRAVITY Collaboration, A. Foschi, R. Abuter +53

The dark compact object at the centre of the Milky Way is well established to be a supermassive black hole with mass , but the nature…