7 papers
NAIR-APREXIS: Enabling photonics-based instruments for long-baseline interferometry and integral-field spectroscopy
L. Labadie, R. J. Harris, K. Madhav +14
The NAIR project -- Novel Astronomical Instrumentation based on photonic light Reformatting -- aims at advancing photonic technologies for infrared long-baseline interferometry and…
Asgard/NOTT: Cryogenic characterization of the mid-infrared chip
G. Garreau, D. Defrère, R. Laugier +25
NOTT is part of the new visitor instrument suite Asgard for the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI), and the first long-baseline nulling interferometer that will be operatio…
Asgard/NOTT: L-band nulling interferometry at the VLTI -- III. The mid-infrared integrated optics beam combiner for NOTT
A. Sanny, L. Labadie, S. Gross +6
The NOTT visitor instrument at the VLTI will characterize hot exozodiacal dust and young Jupiter-like planets at the water snowline via L' band nulling interferometry. The beam com…
Asgard/NOTT: water vapor and CO atmospheric dispersion compensation system
Romain Laugier, Denis Defrère, Michael Ireland +8
To leverage the angular resolution of interferometry at high contrast, one must employ specialized beam-combiners called interferometric nullers. Nullers discard part of the astrop…
Asgard/NOTT: First lab assembly and experimental results
G. Garreau, A. Bigioli, R. Laugier +17
Asgard/NOTT is an ERC-funded project hosted at KU Leuven and is part of a new visitor instrumental suite, called Asgard, under preparation for the Very Large Telescope Interferomet…
Pushing high angular resolution and high contrast observations on the VLTI from Y to L band with the Asgard instrumental suite: integration status and plans
Marc-Antoine Martinod, Denis Defrère, Michael J. Ireland +35
ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer has a history of record-breaking discoveries in astrophysics and significant advances in instrumentation. The next leap forward is its new…