VLTI status update: a decade of operations and beyond
Abstract
We present the latest update of the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope interferometer (VLTI). The operations of VLTI have greatly improved in the past years: reduction of the execution time; better offering of telescopes configurations; improvements on AMBER limiting magnitudes; study of polarization effects and control for single mode fibres; fringe tracking real time data, etc. We present some of these improvements and also quantify the operational improvements using a performance metric. We take the opportunity of the first decade of operations to reflect on the VLTI community which is analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. Finally, we present briefly the preparatory work for the arrival of the second generation instruments GRAVITY and MATISSE.
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@article{arxiv.1407.2785,
title = {VLTI status update: a decade of operations and beyond},
author = {Antoine Merand and Roberto Abuter and Emmanuel Aller-Carpentier and Luigi Andolfato and Jaime Alonso and Jean-Philippe Berger and Guillaume Blanchard and Henri Boffin and Pierre Bourget and Paul Bristow and Claudia Cid and Willem-Jan de Wit and Diego del Valle and Franccoise Delplancke-Stroebele and Frederic Derie and Lorena Faundez and Steve Ertel and Rebekka Grellmann and Philippe Gitton and Andreas Glindemann and Patricia Guajardo and Sylvain Guieu and Stephane Guisard and Serge Guniat and Pierre Haguenauer and Christian Herrera and Christian Hummel and Carlos La Fuente and Marcelo Lopez and Pedro Mardones and Sebastien Morel and Andre Mueller and Isabelle Percheron and Than Phan Duc and Andres Pino and Sebastien Poupar and Eszter Pozna and Andres Ramirez and Sridharan Rengaswamy and Lionel Rivas and Thomas Rivinius and Alex Segovia and Christian Schmid and Markus Schoeller and Nicolas Schuhler and Julien Woillez and Markus Wittkowski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.2785},
year = {2015}
}
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10 pages, 7 figures, Proceedings of the SPIE, 9146-19