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    Milli-arcsecond Astrophysics with VSI, the VLTI Spectro-imager in the ELT Era

    Nowadays, compact sources relatively warm like surfaces of nearby stars, circumstellar environments of stars from early stages to the most evolved ones and surroundings of active galactic nuclei can be investi...

    F. Malbet, D. Buscher, G. Weigelt, P. Garcia, M. Gai in Science with the VLT in the ELT Era (2009)

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    MATISSE

    MATISSE is foreseen as a mid-infrared spectro-interferometer combining the beams of up to four UTs/ATs of the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI). MATISSE will measure closure phase relations and thus o...

    B. Lopez, S. Lagarde, S. Wolf, W. Jaffe, G. Weigelt in Science with the VLT in the ELT Era (2009)

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    MATISSE Science Cases

    MATISSE is foreseen as a mid-infrared spectro-interferometric instrument combining the beams of up to four UTs/ATs of the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI). MATISSE will measure closure phase relation...

    S. Wolf, B. Lopez, W. Jaffe, G. Weigelt in Science with the VLT in the ELT Era (2009)

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    Prospects for Near-infrared Characterisation of Hot Jupiters with the VLTI Spectro-imager (VSI)

    Since the discovery of the first exoplanet around 51 Pegasi, the study of planetary systems receives an increasing attention, with the development and test of more and more detection techniques. Among the dire...

    S. Renard, O. Absil, J.-P. Berger, X. Bonfils in Science with the VLT in the ELT Era (2009)

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    A Numerical Simulator for VITRUV

    VITRUVsim is a numerical tool with as much as possible physics included. Inputs are the source parameters (flux, morphology, position...) and outputs are sequences of observed fringes and/or reduced visibilities....

    J.-B. LeBouquin, E. Herwats, M.-I. Carvalho in The Power of Optical/IR Interferometry: Re… (2008)

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    GENIE: a Ground-Based European Nulling Instrument at ESO Very Large Telescope Interferometer

    Darwin is one of the most challenging space projects ever considered by the European Space Agency (ESA). Its principal objectives are to detect Earth-like planets around nearby stars, to analyze the compositio...

    P. Gondoin, R. den Hartog, M. Fridlund in The Power of Optical/IR Interferometry: Re… (2008)