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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.IM2024★ 7 cited

Single-mode waveguides for GRAVITY II. Single-mode fibers and Fiber Control Unit

G. Perrin, L. Jocou, K. Perraut +22

The 2nd generation VLTI instrument GRAVITY is a two-field infrared interferometer operating in the K band between 1.97 and 2.43 m with either the four 8 m or the four 1.8 m tele…

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…