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dc.date.accessioned | 2018-01-15T11:14:18Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2007-03 | |
dc.description.abstract | Aims. This paper describes the design goals and engineering efforts that led to the realization of AMBER (Astronomical Multi BEam combineR)
and to the achievement of its present performance.
Methods. On the basis of the general instrumental concept, AMBER was decomposed into modules whose functions and detailed characteristics
are given. Emphasis is put on the spatial filtering system, a key element of the instrument. We established a budget for transmission and contrast
degradation through the different modules, and made the detailed optical design. The latter confirmed the overall performance of the instrument
and defined the exact implementation of the AMBER optics.
Results. The performance was assessed with laboratory measurements and commissionings at the VLTI, in terms of spectral coverage and resolution,
instrumental contrast higher than 0.80, minimum magnitude of 11 in K, absolute visibility accuracy of 1%, and differential phase stability
of 10−3 rad over one minute. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | The AMBER project1 was founded by the French Centre
National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), the Max Planck Institute für
Radioastronomie (MPIfR) in Bonn, the Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri
(OAA) in Firenze, the French Region “Provence Alpes Côte D’Azur” and
the European Southern Observatory (ESO). The CNRS funding has been
made through the Institut National des Sciences de l’Univers (INSU) and its
Programmes Nationaux (ASHRA, PNPS, PNP).
The OAA co-authors acknowledge partial support from MIUR grants to the
Arcetri Observatory: A LBT interferometric arm, and analysis of VLTI interferometric
data and From Stars to Planets: accretion, disk evolution and
planet formation and from INAF grants to the Arcetri Observatory Stellar and
Extragalactic Astrophysics with Optical Interferometry. C. Gil work was supported
in part by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia through project
POCTI/CTE-AST/55691/2004 from POCTI, with funds from the European program
FEDER. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2007, Vol. 464, pp. 13-27 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1051/0004-6361:20065432 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/30978 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | EDP Sciences | en_GB |
dc.rights | © ESO 2007 | en_GB |
dc.subject | instrumentation | en_GB |
dc.subject | high angular resolution – instrumentation | en_GB |
dc.subject | interferometers – methods | en_GB |
dc.subject | analytical – methods | en_GB |
dc.subject | numerical – methods | en_GB |
dc.subject | laboratory – techniques | en_GB |
dc.subject | high angular resolution | en_GB |
dc.title | Optical configuration and analysis of the AMBER/VLTI instrument | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2018-01-15T11:14:18Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0004-6361 | |
dc.description | This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from EDP Sciences via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Astronomy and Astrophysics | en_GB |