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
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| author | Martinod, Marc-Antoine Defrère, Denis Ireland, Michael J. Kraus, Stefan Martinache, Frantz Tuthill, Peter G. Allouche, Fatmé Bouzerand, Emilie Bryant, Julia Carter, Josh Chhabra, Sorabh Courtney-Barrer, Benjamin Crous, Fred Cvetojevic, Nick Dandumont, Colin Ertel, Steve Gardner, Tyler Garreau, Germain Glauser, Adrian M. Haubois, Xavier Labadie, Lucas Lagarde, Stéphane Lancaster, Daniel Laugier, Romain Mazzoli, Alexandra Meilland, Anthony Missiaen, Kwinten Morel, Sébastien Mortimer, Daniel J. Norris, Barnaby Paul, Jyotirmay Raskin, Gert Robbe-Dubois, Sylvie Robertson, J. Gordon Sanny, Ahmed Schuhler, Nicolas Snaith, Owain Taras, Adam |
| author_facet | Martinod, Marc-Antoine Defrère, Denis Ireland, Michael J. Kraus, Stefan Martinache, Frantz Tuthill, Peter G. Allouche, Fatmé Bouzerand, Emilie Bryant, Julia Carter, Josh Chhabra, Sorabh Courtney-Barrer, Benjamin Crous, Fred Cvetojevic, Nick Dandumont, Colin Ertel, Steve Gardner, Tyler Garreau, Germain Glauser, Adrian M. Haubois, Xavier Labadie, Lucas Lagarde, Stéphane Lancaster, Daniel Laugier, Romain Mazzoli, Alexandra Meilland, Anthony Missiaen, Kwinten Morel, Sébastien Mortimer, Daniel J. Norris, Barnaby Paul, Jyotirmay Raskin, Gert Robbe-Dubois, Sylvie Robertson, J. Gordon Sanny, Ahmed Schuhler, Nicolas Snaith, Owain Taras, Adam |
| contents | 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 visitor instrument, called Asgard. It comprises four natively collaborating instruments: HEIMDALLR, an instrument performing both fringe tracking and stellar interferometry simultaneously with the same optics, operating in the K band; Baldr, a Strehl optimizer in the H band; BIFROST, a spectroscopic combiner to study the formation processes and properties of stellar and planetary systems in the Y-J-H bands; and NOTT, a nulling interferometer dedicated to imaging nearby young planetary systems in the L band. The suite is in its integration phase in Europe and should be shipped to Paranal in 2025. In this article, we present details of the alignment and calibration unit, the observing modes, the integration plan, the software architecture, and the roadmap to completion of the project. |
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| spellingShingle | 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 Martinod, Marc-Antoine Defrère, Denis Ireland, Michael J. Kraus, Stefan Martinache, Frantz Tuthill, Peter G. Allouche, Fatmé Bouzerand, Emilie Bryant, Julia Carter, Josh Chhabra, Sorabh Courtney-Barrer, Benjamin Crous, Fred Cvetojevic, Nick Dandumont, Colin Ertel, Steve Gardner, Tyler Garreau, Germain Glauser, Adrian M. Haubois, Xavier Labadie, Lucas Lagarde, Stéphane Lancaster, Daniel Laugier, Romain Mazzoli, Alexandra Meilland, Anthony Missiaen, Kwinten Morel, Sébastien Mortimer, Daniel J. Norris, Barnaby Paul, Jyotirmay Raskin, Gert Robbe-Dubois, Sylvie Robertson, J. Gordon Sanny, Ahmed Schuhler, Nicolas Snaith, Owain Taras, Adam Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 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 visitor instrument, called Asgard. It comprises four natively collaborating instruments: HEIMDALLR, an instrument performing both fringe tracking and stellar interferometry simultaneously with the same optics, operating in the K band; Baldr, a Strehl optimizer in the H band; BIFROST, a spectroscopic combiner to study the formation processes and properties of stellar and planetary systems in the Y-J-H bands; and NOTT, a nulling interferometer dedicated to imaging nearby young planetary systems in the L band. The suite is in its integration phase in Europe and should be shipped to Paranal in 2025. In this article, we present details of the alignment and calibration unit, the observing modes, the integration plan, the software architecture, and the roadmap to completion of the project. |
| title | 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 |
| topic | Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.08431 |