Science cases for a visible interferometer
Abstract
High spatial resolution is the key for the understanding various astrophysical phenomena. But even with the future E-ELT, single dish instruments are limited to a spatial resolution of about 4 mas in the visible. For the closest objects within our Galaxy most of the stellar photosphere remains smaller than 1 mas. With the success of long baseline interferometry these limitations were soom overcome. Today low and high resolution interferometric instruments on the VLTI and CHARA offer an immense range of astrophysical studies. Combining more telescopes and moving to visible wavelengths broadens the science cases even more. With the idea of developing strong science cases for a future visible interferometer, we organized a science group around the following topics: pre-main sequence and main sequence stars, fundamental parameters, asteroseismology and classical pulsating stars, evolved stars, massive stars, active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and imaging techniques. A meeting was organized on the 15th and 16th of January, 2015 in Nice with the support of the Action Specific in Haute Resolution Angulaire (ASHRA), the Programme National en Physique Stellaire (PNPS), the Lagrange Laboratory and the Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, in order to present these cases and to discuss them further for future visible interferometers. This White Paper presents the outcome of the exchanges. This book is dedicated to the memory of our colleague Olivier Chesneau who passed away at the age of 41.
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@article{arxiv.1703.02395,
title = {Science cases for a visible interferometer},
author = {Philippe Stee and France Allard and Myriam Benisty and Lionel Bigot and Nicolas Blind and Henri Boffin and Marcelo Borges Fernandes and Alex Carciofi and Andrea Chiavassa and Orlagh Creevey and Pierre Cruzalebes and Willem-Jan de Wit and Armando Domiciano de Souza and Martin Elvis and Nicolas Fabas and Daniel Faes and Alexandre Gallenne and Carlos Guerrero Pena and Michel Hillen and Sebastian Hoenig and Michael Ireland and Pierre Kervella and Makoto Kishimoto and Nadia Kostogryz and Stefan Kraus and Antoine Labeyrie and Jean-Baptiste Le Bouquin and Agnès Lebre and Roxanne Ligi and Alessandro Marconi and Thomas Marsh and Anthony Meilland and Florentin Millour and John Monnier and Denis Mourard and Nicolas Nardetto and Keiichi Ohnaka and Claudia Paladini and Karine Perraut and Guy Perrin and Pascal Petit and Romain Petrov and Suvendu Rakshit and Gail Schaefer and Jean Schneider and Denis Shulyak and Michal Simon and Ferreol Soulez and Danny Steeghs and Isabelle Tallon-Bosc and Michel Tallon and Theo ten Brummelaar and Eric Thiebaut and Frédéric Thévenin and Hans Van Winckel and Markus Wittkowski and Juan Zorec},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.02395},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
White Paper prospective. This book is dedicated to the memory of our colleague Olivier Chesneau who passed away at the age of 41. v2 includes some corrections to text