Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Dec 2003
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The Messenger (ISSN0722-6691), No.114, p. 26-34 (December 2003)
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
9
Scientific paper
The ESO Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) has been included for the first time in the official call for proposals requesting ESO telescopes for the period starting in April 2004. This marks the official start of public interferometric observations open to the community. It is the start of a new approach to interferometry as a standard astronomical technique, and a point of pride and satisfaction for all the people who have been working with this challenging goal for many years. But it should not be forgotten that the VLTI has already logged over two years of intensive commissioning, as well as some initial science demonstration runs. Over 16,000 observations of hundreds of objects have been collected and are available publicly over the ESO archive on the WEB. In 2003, the first scientific results of this remarkable effort have appeared. Already more than a dozen papers based on VLTI data have been submitted or accepted by refereed journals, with a similar volume of contributions to workshops and conferences of a scientific nature. We provide here an overview of this early scientific production of the VLTI, ranging from the determination of fundamental parameters of many classes of stars to the first interferometric measurement of the inner regions of the nucleus of the Seyfert galaxy NGC 1068.
Paresce Francesco
Richichi Andrea
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