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MIRC-X (Michigan InfraRed Combiner-eXeter) is a new highly-sensitive six-telescope interferometric imager installed at the CHARA Array that provides an angular resolution equivalent of up to a 330 m diameter baseline telescope in J and H…

HERA is a highly-redundant transit interferometer with 14\,m-diameter parabolic dish elements. We exploit the fact that the Galactic centre transits through the main beam of the telescope to attempt a conventional self-calibration approach…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-18 Bojan Nikolic , Chris Carilli , HERA Collaboration

In this proceeding, we summarize the key science goals and reference design for a next-generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) that is envisaged to operate in the 2030s. The ngVLA is an interferometric array with more than 10 times the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-22 Eric J. Murphy

We report on K-band interferometric observations of the bright, rapidly rotating star Regulus (type B7 V) made with the CHARA Array on Mount Wilson, California. Through a combination of interferometric and spectroscopic measurements, we…

Here I review the current state of the field of optical stellar interferometry, concentrating on ground-based work although a brief report of space interferometry missions is included. We pause both to reflect on decades of immense progress…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 John D. Monnier

Multi-epoch radio-interferometric observations of young stellar objects can be used to measure their displacement over the celestial sphere with a level of precision that currently cannot be attained at any other wavelength. In particular,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-04-28 Laurent Loinard , Rosa M. Torres , Amy J. Mioduszewski , Luis F. Rodriguez

MIRC-X is a six telescope beam combiner at the CHARA array that works in J and H wavelength bands and provides an angular resolution equivalent to a $B$=331m diameter telescope. The legacy MIRC combiner has delivered outstanding results in…

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array remains the largest mm radio interferometer observatory world-wide. It is now conducting its 11th observing cycle. In our previous paper presented at this conference series in 2020, we…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-09 Dirk Petry , María Díaz Trigo , Rüdiger Kneissl , Ignacio Toledo , Atsushi Miyazaki , Toshinobu Takagi , Ashley Barnes , Francesca Bonanomi

We have measured the angular diameters for a sample of 24 exoplanet host stars using Georgia State University's CHARA Array interferometer. We use these improved angular diameters together with Hipparcos parallax measurements to derive…

Direct detection of thermal emission from nearby hot Jupiters has greatly advanced our knowledge of extrasolar planets in recent years. Since hot Jupiter systems can be regarded as analogs of high contrast binaries, ground-based infrared…

Our aim is to assess the benefits and limitations of using the redundant visibility information in regular phased array systems for improving the calibration. Regular arrays offer the possibility to use redundant visibility information to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Parisa Noorishad , Stefan J. Wijnholds , Arnold van Ardenne , Thijs van der Hulst

Optical interferometry is a powerful technique to achieve high angular resolution. However, its main issue is its lack of sensitivity, compared to other observation techniques. Efforts have been made in the previous decade to improve the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-30 Cyprien Lanthermann , Theo ten Brummelaar , Peter Tuthill , Marc-Antoine Martinod , E. Robert Ligon , Douglas Gies , Gail Schaefer , Matthew Anderson

To continue the unparalleled success of the Very Large Array (VLA) for radio astronomy, the facility is currently being converted to become the 'Expanded VLA' (EVLA). The EVLA will radically improve the VLA in order to cover the full…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Juergen Ott , Rick Perley , Michael Rupen , the EVLA team

We summarize the design, capabilities, and some of the priority science goals of a next generation Very Large Array (ngVLA). The ngVLA is an interferometric array with 10x larger effective collecting area and 10x higher spatial resolution…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-23 C. L. Carilli , M. McKinnon , J. Ott , A. Beasley , A. Isella , E. Murphy , A. Leroy , C. Casey , A. Moullet , M. Lacy , J. Hodge , G. Bower , P. Demorest , C. Hull , M. Hughes , J. di Francesco , D. Narayanan , B. Kent , B. Clark , B. Butler

We present the first K'-band, long-baseline interferometric observations of the northern Be stars gamma Cas, phi Per, zeta Tau, and kappa Dra. The measurements were made with multiple telescope pairs of the CHARA Array interferometer, and…

The Big Fringe Telescope (BFT) is a facility concept under development for a next-generation, kilometer-scale optical interferometer. Observations over the past two decades from routinely operational facilities such as CHARA and VLTI have…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-05 Gerard T. van Belle , Anders M. Jorgensen

In the past two decades, a rebirth of interest in low-frequency radio astronomy for 21 cm tomography of the Epoch of Reionization, has given rise to a new class of radio interferometers with $N \gg 100$ antennas. The availability of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-11 Deepthi Gorthi

With the aim of pushing the limiting magnitude of interferometric instruments, the need for wide-band detection channels and for a coordinated operation of different instruments has considerably grown in the field of long-baseline…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-16 Cyril Pannetier , Denis Mourard , Frédéric Cassaing , Stéphane Lagarde , Jean-Baptiste Le Bouquin , John Monnier , Judit Sturmann , Theo Ten Brummelaar

A radio interferometer uses time delays to maximize its response to radiation coming from a particular direction. These time delays compensate for differences in the time of arrival of the wavefront at the different elements of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-08 P. Salas , M. A. Brentjens , D. D. Bordenave , J. B. R. Oonk , H. J. A. Röttgering

Baseline calibration of a stellar interferometer is a prerequisite to data reduction of astrometric operations. This technique of astrometry is triangulation of star positions. Since angles are deduced from the baseline and delay side of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-16 Richard J. Mathar