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Near-infrared wavefront sensing for the VLT interferometer
Stefan Hippler, Wolfgang Brandner, Yann Clénet +11
The very large telescope (VLT) interferometer (VLTI) in its current operating state is equipped with high-order adaptive optics (MACAO) working in the visible spectrum. A low-order…
GRAVITY: getting to the event horizon of Sgr A*
F. Eisenhauer, G. Perrin, W. Brandner +45
We present the second-generation VLTI instrument GRAVITY, which currently is in the preliminary design phase. GRAVITY is specifically designed to observe highly relativistic motion…
Science Requirements for EAGLE for the E-ELT
C. J. Evans, M. D. Lehnert, J. -G. Cuby +7
We present an overview of the EAGLE science case, which spans spatially-resolved spectroscopy of targets from five key science areas - ranging from studies of heavily-obscured Gala…
Unveiling the central parsec region of an AGN: the Circinus nucleus in the near infrared with the VLT
M. Almudena Prieto, K. Meisenheimer, Olivier Marco +12
VLT J- to M\p-band adaptive optics observations of the Circinus Galaxy on parsec scales resolve a central bright Ks-band source with a FWHM size of 1.9 0.6 pc. This source is…
Hot Very Small dust Grains in NGC 1068 seen in jet induced structures thanks to VLT/NACO adaptive optics
Daniel Rouan, Francois Lacombe, Eric Gendron +12
We present K, L and M diffraction-limited images of NGC 1068 obtained with NAOS+CONICA at VLT/YEPUN over a 3.5" field around the central engine. Hot dust (Tcol = 550-650 K) is foun…
VLT/NACO infrared adaptive optics images of small scale structures in OMC1
Francois Lacombe, Eric Gendron, Daniel Rouan +10
Near-infrared observations of line emission from excited H2 and in the continuum are reported in the direction of the Orion molecular cloud OMC1, using the European Southern Observ…