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Exoplanet atmospheres and demographics in the 2040s
Jens Kammerer, Sydney Vach, Sylvestre Lacour +7
Direct observations of exoplanets probe the demographics and atmospheric composition of young self-luminous companions, yielding insight into their formation and early evolution hi…
Exoplanets in reflected starlight with dual-field interferometry and a fifth Unit Telescope at VLTI
Óscar Carrión-González, Sylvestre Lacour, Mathias Nowak
In this white paper, we propose an upgrade to the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) consisting of the addition of a new 8m Unit Telescope (UT5). The primary goal of this u…
Hunting exomoons with a kilometric baseline interferometer
Thomas O. Winterhalder, Antoine Mérand, Sylvestre Lacour +3
Despite numerous search campaigns based on a diverse set of observational techniques, exomoons - prospective satellites of extrasolar planets - remain an elusive and hard-to-pin-do…
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.…
CubeSats as pathfinders for planetary detection: the FIRST-S satellite
S. Lacour, V. Lapeyrère, L. Gauchet +6
The idea behind FIRST (Fibered Imager foR a Single Telescope) is to use single-mode fibers to combine multiple apertures in a pupil plane as such as to synthesize a bigger aperture…
The interferometric baselines and GRAVITY astrometric error budget
S. Lacour, F. Eisenhauer, S. Gillessen +9
GRAVITY is a new generation beam combination instrument for the VLTI. Its goal is to achieve microarsecond astrometric accuracy between objects separated by a few arcsec. This $10^…