First light for GRAVITY: Phase referencing optical interferometry for the Very Large Telescope Interferometer

R Abuter, M Accardo, A Amorim, N Anugu… - Astronomy & …, 2017 - aanda.org
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 …

MATISSE, the VLTI mid-infrared imaging spectro-interferometer

B Lopez, S Lagarde, RG Petrov, W Jaffe… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Context. Optical interferometry is at a key development stage. The Very Large Telescope
Interferometer (VLTI) has established a stable, robust infrastructure for long-baseline …

High-angular resolution and high contrast observations from Y to L band at the Very Large Telescope Interferometer with the Asgard Instrumental suite

MA Martinod, D Defrère, M Ireland… - Journal of …, 2023 - spiedigitallibrary.org
European Southern Observatory (ESO)'s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI),
Paranal, Chile, is one of the most proficient observatories in the world for high angular …

The high energy universe at ultra-high resolution: the power and promise of X-ray interferometry

P Uttley, R Hartog, C Bambi, D Barret, S Bianchi… - Experimental …, 2021 - Springer
We propose the development of X-ray interferometry (XRI), to reveal the Universe at high
energies with ultra-high spatial resolution. With baselines which can be accommodated on a …

Optical and near-infrared observations of the Fried Egg Nebula-Multiple shell ejections on a 100 yr timescale from a massive yellow hypergiant

E Koumpia, RD Oudmaijer, V Graham… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
Context. The fate of a massive star during the latest stages of its evolution is highly
dependent on its mass-loss rate and geometry and therefore knowing the geometry of the …

VLTI-MATISSE chromatic aperture-synthesis imaging of η Carinae's stellar wind across the Brα line-Periastron passage observations in February 2020

G Weigelt, KH Hofmann, D Schertl, B Lopez… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
Context. Eta Carinae is a highly eccentric, massive binary system (semimajor axis~ 15.5 au)
with powerful stellar winds and a phase-dependent wind-wind collision (WWC) zone. The …

X-ray detection of astrospheres around three main-sequence stars and their mass-loss rates

KG Kislyakova, M Güdel, D Koutroumpa, JA Carter… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Stellar winds of cool main-sequence stars are difficult to constrain observationally. One way
to measure stellar mass-loss rates is to detect the soft X-ray emission from stellar …

Mid-infrared evolution of η Carinae from 1968 to 2018

A Mehner, WJ de Wit, D Asmus, PW Morris… - Astronomy & …, 2019 - aanda.org
η Car is one of the most luminous and massive stars in our Galaxy and is the brightest mid-
IR source in the sky outside our solar system. Since the late 1990s, the central source has …

High spectral-resolution interferometry down to one micron with Asgard/BIFROST at VLTI: science drivers and project overview

S Kraus, D Mortimer, S Chhabra, Y Lu… - Optical and Infrared …, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
We present science cases and instrument design considerations for the BIFROST instrument
that will open the short-wavelength (Y/J/H-band), high spectral dispersion (up to R= 25,000) …

Gas dynamics in the inner few AU around the Herbig B [e] star MWC297-Indications of a disk wind from kinematic modeling and velocity-resolved interferometric …

E Hone, S Kraus, A Kreplin, KH Hofmann… - Astronomy & …, 2017 - aanda.org
Aims. Circumstellar accretion disks and outflows play an important role in star formation. By
studying the continuum and Brγ-emitting region of the Herbig B [e] star MWC297 with high …