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The PLATO Mission
Heike Rauer, Conny Aerts, Juan Cabrera +842
PLATO (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars) is ESA's M3 mission designed to detect and characterise extrasolar planets and perform asteroseismic monitoring of a large numb…
French SKA White Book - The French Community towards the Square Kilometre Array
F. Acero, J. -T. Acquaviva, R. Adam +175
The "Square Kilometre Array" (SKA) is a large international radio telescope project characterised, as suggested by its name, by a total collecting area of approximately one square…
The Expanding Fireball of Nova Delphini 2013
G. H. Schaefer, T. ten Brummelaar, D. R. Gies +34
A classical nova occurs when material accreting onto the surface of a white dwarf in a close binary system ignites in a thermonuclear runaway. Complex structures observed in the ej…
Optical configuration and analysis of the AMBER/VLTI instrument
S. Robbe-Dubois, S. Lagarde, R. G. Petrov +23
This paper describes the design goals and engineering efforts that led to the realization of AMBER (Astronomical Multi BEam combineR) and to the achievement of its present performa…
VLTI/AMBER interferometric observations of the recurrent Nova RS Oph 5.5 days after outburst
Olivier Chesneau, N. Nardetto, F. Millour +15
We report on interferometric AMBER/VLTI observations of the recurrent nova RS Oph five days after its outburst on 2006 Feb 12. Using three baselines from 44 to 86m, and a spectral…
Direct constraint on the distance of y2 Velorum from AMBER/VLTI observations
F. Millour, R. G. Petrov, O. Chesneau +95
In this work, we present the first AMBER observations, of the Wolf-Rayet and O (WR+O) star binary system y2 Velorum. The AMBER instrument was used with the telescopes UT2, UT3, and…