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Stellar interferometry with a K-band integrated optics beam combiner instrument at the CHARA Array - I. First on-sky fringes for CHARIOT
Aline N. Dinkelaker, Kévin Barjot, Nic Scott +8
We present the instrument description and the first on-sky observations for the new CHara ARray Integrated Optics Testbench (CHARIOT) at the CHARA Array. CHARIOT is a 2-telescope p…
astro-ph.IM2026
Sensing ELT petal modes with a discrete beam combiner: an end-to-end theoretical model
Kalaga V. Madhav, Abani Shankar Nayak, Lucas Labadie +1
The European Southern Observatory's Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), the 39-m telescope under construction in Chile, forms its entrance pupil from 798 hexagonal segments that the s…