The path towards high-contrast imaging with the VLTI: the Hi-5 project

Experimental Astronomy - Tập 46 Số 3 - Trang 475-495 - 2018
Denis Defrère1, Olivier Absil2, J.‐P. Berger3, T. Boulet1, W. C. Danchi4, S. Ertel5, A. Gallenne6, François Hénault3, Philip M. Hinz7, Elsa Huby8,1, Michael Ireland9, Stefan Kraus10, L. Labadie11, J.-B. Le Bouquin3, G. Martín12, A. Matter13, A. Mérand14, Bertrand Mennesson15, Stefano Minardi16, J. D. Monnier17, Barnaby Norris18, Gilles Orban de Xivry2, E. Pedretti19, Jörg-Uwe Pott20, Maddalena Reggiani21, Eugene Serabyn22, Jean Surdej23, K. R. W. Tristram6, J. Woillez24
1Space Sciences, Technologies and Astrophysics Research Institute
2Space sciences, Technologies & Astrophysics Research (STAR) Institute, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
3Institut de Planétologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble
4Exoplanets & Stellar Astrophysics Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, USA
5Steward Observatory
6European Southern Observatory, Vitacura, Chile
7University of Arizona
8Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique
9Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
10School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
11I. Physikalisches Institut, Universität zu Köln, Cologne, Germany
12Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IPAG, Grenoble, France
13Laboratoire Hippolyte Fizeau
14European Southern Observatory
15Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
16Institute of Atomic Physics
17Institut de Chimie et des Matériaux Paris-Est
18University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
19SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy [University of St Andrews]
20Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany
21Dipartimento di Biochimica G. Moruzzi
22Jet Propulsion Laboratory
23Institut d'Astrophysique et de Géophysique [Liège]
24Observatoire de Paris - Site de Paris

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