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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…
PANIC: the new panoramic NIR camera for Calar Alto
H. Baumeister, M. Alter, M. C. Cardenas Vazquez +16
PANIC is a wide-field NIR camera, which is currently under development for the Calar Alto observatory (CAHA) in Spain. It uses a mosaic of four Hawaii-2RG detectors and covers the…