Publications
of the
MPIfR Optical & Infrared Interferometry Group
Petrov,
R.G.,
Malbet,
F.,
Weigelt, G., Lisi, F., Puget, P., Antonelli, P., Beckmann, U., Lagarde,
S., Lecoarer, E., Robbe-Dubois, S., Duvert, G., Gennari, S., Chelli,
A.,
Dugué, M., Rousselet-Perraut, K., Vannier, M., and Mourard, D.
Using
the near infrared VLTI instrument AMBER
in: W.A. Traub
(ed.),
Interferometry for Optical Astronomy II, SPIE Conf. Vol. 4838
(2003)
Abstract.
AMBER is the General User near infrared focal instrument of the Very
Large
Telescope Interferometer. Its a single mode, dispersed fringes, three
telescopes
instrument. A limiting magnitude of the order of H=13 will allow to
tackle
a fair sample of extra galactic targets. A very high accuracy, in
particular
in color differential phase and closure phase modes gives good hope for
very
high dynamic range observation, possibly including hot extra solar
planets.
The relatively high maximum spectral resolution, up to 10000, will
allow
some stellar activity observations. Between this extreme goals, AMBER
should
have a wide range of applications including Young Stellar Objects,
Evolved
Stars, circumstellar material and many others. This paper tries to
introduce AMBER to its future users with information on what it
measures, how it is
calibrated and hopes to give the readers ideas for applications.
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