10-μm interferometry on the VLTI with the MIDI instrument : a preview

Christoph Leinert,U. Graser,Laurens B. F. M. Waters,G. Perrin,B. Lopez,Vincent Coude du Foresto,Annelie W. Glazenborg-Kluttig,Johannes C.M. de Haas,T. M. Herbst,Walter Jaffe,Pierre J. Lena,Rainer Lenzen,Rudolf S. Le Poole,Sebastiano Ligori,Reinhard Mundt,Jan-Willem Pel,Irene L. Porro,Oskar von der Luehe

10-μm interferometry on the VLTI with the MIDI instrument : a preview

2000

Christoph Leinert
U. Graser
Laurens B. F. M. Waters
G. Perrin
B. Lopez
Vincent Coude du Foresto
Annelie W. Glazenborg-Kluttig
Johannes C.M. de Haas
T. M. Herbst
Walter Jaffe
Pierre J. Lena
Rainer Lenzen
Rudolf S. Le Poole
Sebastiano Ligori
Reinhard Mundt
Jan-Willem Pel
Irene L. Porro
Oskar von der Luehe

We describe principles, design and present status of MIDI, the mid-infrared interferometric instrument for the VLTI, which is planned to come into operation at the ESO Very Large Telescope Interferometer during the second half of 2001.

Keywords:

Interferometry
Astronomical interferometer
Remote sensing
MIDI
Physics
Very Large Telescope
Optics
astronomical telescopes
Astronomy
thermal infrared

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