4 papers
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…
A catalogue of high angular resolution and contrast polarimetric maps of 45 nearby AGB stars with SPHERE/ZIMPOL
Nekolgne Aymard Badolo, Eric Lagadec, Mamadou N'Diaye +7
We present the largest catalogue of asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars, 45 targets in total, observed in polarized light at high angular resolution (~ 20 milliarcsec). The main go…
Destructuring the disk of AB Aurigae: Dynamics and accretion
Anthony Boccaletti, Emmanuel Di Folco, Anne Dutrey +23
In this paper, we present near-IR polarized images of the AB Aur disk at three epochs spanning 3.85 years with SPHERE/IRDIS, as well as Halpha images obtained with SPHERE/ZIMPOL at…
Asgard/NOTT: water vapor and CO atmospheric dispersion compensation system
Romain Laugier, Denis Defrère, Michael Ireland +8
To leverage the angular resolution of interferometry at high contrast, one must employ specialized beam-combiners called interferometric nullers. Nullers discard part of the astrop…