In the intimacy of stars with AMBER at the VLTI

Malbet, F.; Petrov, R.; Weigelt, G.; Chesneau, O.; Domiciano de Souza, A.; Meilland, A.; Millour, F.; Tatulli, E.; The Amber Consortium

SF2A-2007: Proceedings of the Annual meeting of the French Society of Astronomy and Astrophysics
held in Grenoble, France, July 2-6, 2007
Eds.: J. Bouvier, A. Chalabaev, and C. Charbonnel, p.13 (2007)


Abstract
The AMBER instrument installed at the Very Large Telescope (VLT) combines the beams from three telescopes to produce spectrally dispersed interference fringes with milli-arcsecond angular scales in the near infrared. Three years after installation, first scientific observations have been carried out mostly during the Science Demonstration Time and the Guaranteed Time. The first science has mainly focused on the environment of various types of stars. Because AMBER has dramatically increased the number of measures per baseline, this instrument brings strong constraints on morphology and models.

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