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most citedDetection of the gravitational redshift in the orbit of the star S2 near the Galactic centre massive black hole

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astro-ph.IM2025★ 8 cited

First Light for the GRAVITY+ Adaptive Optics: Extreme Adaptive Optics for the Very Large Telescope Interferometer

GRAVITY+ Collaboration, :, F. Allouche +137

GRAVITY+ improves by orders of magnitude the sensitivity, sky-coverage and contrast of the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI). A central part of this project is the develop…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 1 cited

GRAVITY+ adaptive optics (GPAO) tests in Europe

Florentin Millour, Guillaume Bourdarot, Jean-Baptiste Le Bouquin +54

We present in this proceeding the results of the test phase of the GRAVITY+ adaptive optics. This extreme AO will enable both high-dynamic range observations of faint companions (i…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 1 cited

GRAVITY+ Wavefront Sensors: High-Contrast, Laser Guide Star, Adaptive Optics systems for the VLTI

G. Bourdarot, F. Eisenhauer, S. Yazıcı +53

We present the Wavefront Sensor units of the Gravity Plus Adaptive Optics (GPAO) system, which will equip all 8m class telescopes of the VLTI and is an instrumental part of the GRA…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 5 cited

The MICADO first light imager for the ELT: off-axis performance of PSF reconstruction

Matteo Simioni, Daniel Jodlbauer, Carmelo Arcidiacono +14

The highest scientific return, for adaptive optics (AO) observations, is achieved with a reliable reconstruction of the PSF. This is especially true for MICADO@ELT. In this present…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 1 cited

Polarization analysis of the VLTI and GRAVITY

GRAVITY Collaboration, F. Widmann, X. Haubois N. Schuhler +59

The goal of this work is to characterize the polarization effects of the VLTI and GRAVITY. This is needed to calibrate polarimetric observations with GRAVITY for instrumental effec…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 21 cited

The GRAVITY+ Project: Towards All-sky, Faint-Science, High-Contrast Near-Infrared Interferometry at the VLTI

GRAVITY+ Collaboration, :, Roberto Abuter +134

The GRAVITY instrument has been revolutionary for near-infrared interferometry by pushing sensitivity and precision to previously unknown limits. With the upgrade of GRAVITY and th…

astro-ph.IM2022

GRAVITY+ Wide: Towards hundreds of z 2 AGN

A. Drescher, M. Fabricius, T. Shimizu +34

As part of the GRAVITY project, the near-infrared beam combiner GRAVITY and the VLTI are currently undergoing a series of significant upgrades to further improve the performa…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 31 cited

First Light for GRAVITY Wide: Large Separation Fringe Tracking for the Very Large Telescope Interferometer

GRAVITY+ Collaboration, :, R. Abuter +114

GRAVITY+ is the upgrade of GRAVITY and the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) with wide-separation fringe tracking, new adaptive optics, and laser guide stars on all four 8…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 588 cited

First Light for GRAVITY: Phase Referencing Optical Interferometry for the Very Large Telescope Interferometer

GRAVITY Collaboration, R. Abuter, M. Accardo +130

GRAVITY is a new instrument to coherently combine the light of the European Southern Observatory Very Large Telescope Interferometer to form a telescope with an equivalent 130 m di…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 10 cited

The metrology system of the VLTI instrument GRAVITY

Magdalena Lippa, Stefan Gillessen, Nicolas Blind +24

The VLTI instrument GRAVITY combines the beams from four telescopes and provides phase-referenced imaging as well as precision-astrometry of order 10 microarcseconds by observing t…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 3 cited

GRAVITY: the VLTI 4-beam combiner for narrow-angle astrometry and interferometric imaging

N. Blind, F. Eisenhauer, S. Gillessen +23

GRAVITY is the second generation Very Large Telescope Interferometer instrument for precision narrow-angle astrometry and interferometric imaging in the Near Infra-Red (NIR). It sh…

astro-ph.IM2015

The GRAVITY instrument software / High-level software

Leonard Burtscher, Ekkehard Wieprecht, Thomas Ott +30

GRAVITY is the four-beam, near- infrared, AO-assisted, fringe tracking, astrometric and imaging instrument for the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI). It is requiring the d…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 5 cited

The GRAVITY metrology system: narrow-angle astrometry via phase-shifting interferometry

M. Lippa, N. Blind, S. Gillessen +26

The VLTI instrument GRAVITY will provide very powerful astrometry by combining the light from four telescopes for two objects simultaneously. It will measure the angular separation…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 21 cited

The fiber coupler and beam stabilization system of the GRAVITY interferometer

O. Pfuhl, M. Haug, F. Eisenhauer +20

We present the installed and fully operational beam stabilization and fiber injection subsystem feeding the 2nd generation VLTI instrument GRAVITY. The interferometer GRAVITY requi…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 1 cited

The GRAVITY metrology system: modeling a metrology in optical fibers

N. Blind, H. Huber, F. Eisenhauer +20

GRAVITY is the second generation VLT Interferometer (VLTI) instrument for high-precision narrow-angle astrometry and phase-referenced interferometric imaging. The laser metrology s…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 13 cited

GRAVITY: the Calibration Unit

N. Blind, F. Eisenhauer, M. Haug +19

We present in this paper the design and characterisation of a new sub-system of the VLTI 2nd generation instrument GRAVITY: the Calibration Unit. The Calibration Unit provides all…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 10 cited

GRAVITY: beam stabilization and light injection subsystems

O. Pfuhl, M. Haug, F. Eisenhauer +9

We present design results of the 2nd generation VLTI instrument GRAVITY beam stabilization and light injection subsystems. Designed to deliver micro-arcsecond astrometry, GRAVITY r…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 15 cited

GRAVITY: metrology

S. Gillessen, M. Lippa, F. Eisenhauer +10

GRAVITY is a second generation VLTI instrument, combining the light of four telescopes and two objects simultaneously. The main goal is to obtain astrometrically accurate informati…