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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…
Alternative approach to precision narrow-angle astrometry for Antarctic long baseline interferometry
Y. Kok, M. J. Ireland, A. C. Rizzuto +4
The conventional approach to high-precision narrow-angle astrometry using a long baseline interferometer is to directly measure the fringe packet separation of a target and a nearb…
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…
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…
The interferometric baselines and GRAVITY astrometric error budget
S. Lacour, F. Eisenhauer, S. Gillessen +9
GRAVITY is a new generation beam combination instrument for the VLTI. Its goal is to achieve microarsecond astrometric accuracy between objects separated by a few arcsec. This $10^…
Reaching micro-arcsecond astrometry with long baseline optical interferometry; application to the GRAVITY instrument
S. Lacour, F. Eisenhauer, S. Gillessen +10
A basic principle of long baseline interferometry is that an optical path difference (OPD) directly translates into an astrometric measurement. In the simplest case, the OPD is equ…