VITRUV - Science Cases
Abstract
VITRUV is a second generation spectro-imager for the PRIMA enabled Very Large Telescope Interferometer. By combining simultaneously up to 8 telescopes VITRUV makes the VLTI up to 6 times more efficient. This operational gain allows two novel scientific methodologies: 1) massive surveys of sizes; 2) routine interferometric imaging. The science cases presented concentrate on the qualitatively new routine interferometric imaging methodology. The science cases are not exhaustive but complementary to the PRIMA reference mission. The focus is on: a) the close environment of young stars probing for the initial conditions of planet formation and disk evolution; b) the surfaces of stars tackling dynamos, activity, pulsation, mass-loss and evolution; c) revealing the origin of the extraordinary morphologies of Planetary Nebulae and related stars; d) studying the accretion-ejection structures of stellar black-holes (microquasars) in our galaxy; e) unveiling the different interacting components (torus, jets, BLRs) of Active Galactic Nuclei; and f) probing the environment of nearby supermassive black-holes and relativistic effects in the Galactic Center black-hole.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0507580,
title = {VITRUV - Science Cases},
author = {Paulo J. V. Garcia and Jean-Phillipe Berger and Romano Corradi and Thierry Forveille and Tim Harries and Gilles Henri and Fabien Malbet and Alessandro Marconi and Karine Perraut and Pierre-Olivier Petrucci and Karel Schrijver and Leonardo Testi and Eric Thiébaut and Sebastian Wolf},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0507580},
year = {2016}
}
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15 pages. The Power of Optical/IR Interferometry: Recent Scientific Results and 2nd Generation VLTI Instrumentation, Allemagne (2005) in press