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The VLTI -- A Status Report

2003; SPIE; Volume: 4838; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1117/12.458117

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Andreas Glindemann, J. Algomedo, Rodrigo Amestica, P. Ballester, B. Bauvir, Erich Bugueno, S. Correia, Francisco Delgado, F. Delplancke, F. Dérie, Philippe Duhoux, E. Di Folco, A. Gennai, Bruno Gilli, P. Giordano, Philippe B. Gitton, Stéphane Guisard, Nico Housen, Alexis Huxley, P. Kervella, M. Kiekebusch, Bertrand Koehler, Samuel Lévêque, Antonio Longinotti, S. Morel, Francesco Paresce, T. Phan Duc, A. Richichi, Markus Schoeller, M. Tarenghi, Anders Wallander, M. Wittkowski, Rainer Wilhelm, Serge Ménardi,

Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing

The Very Large Telescope (VLT) Observatory on Cerro Paranal (2635 m) in Northern Chile is approaching completion. After the four 8-m Unit Telescopes (UT) individually saw first light in the last years, two of them were combined for the first time on October 30, 2001 to form a stellar interferometer, the VLT Interferometer. The remaining two UTs will be integrated into the interferometric array later this year. In this article, we will describe the subsystems of the VLTI and the planning for the following years.