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The Very Large Telescope Interferometer Challenges for the Future
The last quarter of the 20th century witnessed the rebirth and maturing of optical interferometry and associated technologies. Major successes spanning from direct detection of stellar pulsations to imaging in the optical were achieved with test-bed systems, some of which have now evolved to facilities open to the astronomical community. The intense activity and rapid growth of this field are a clear sign that interferometry will be a major observational tool in this century both from ground and space. The VLTI is the largest ground-based interferometric facility combining four 8.2-m telescopes with up to eight 1.8-m telescopes. This facility is the first opened on a shared risk basis in 2002, a milestone for the astronomical community. The combination of enhanced sensitivity and common user support bring into grasp a vastly unexplored astrophysical territory. This book presents state of the art optical interferometry in astrophysics. We emphasise new VLTI users by including tutorials in optical interferometry theory and practice, and related instrumentation, as well as reviews in stellar formation and evolution, and extragalactic science.
The Power of Optical/IR Interferometry: Recent Scientific Results and 2nd Generation Instrumentation
Celebrating the completion of the first phase of VLTI development, the ESO workshop The Power of Optical/IR Interferometry, held in 2005, gathered researchers together to review and discuss not just interferometers, but also how science uses interferometers and their impact on astronomy as a whole. This volume contains the proceedings of this workshop, serving as a reference for astronomers working with optical and infrared interferometry.
Star-Disk Interaction in Young Stars (IAU S243)
Reviews latest star-disk interaction region in young stars for graduate students and researchers.
Science with the VLT in the ELT Era
The Workshop “Science with the VLT in the ELT Era” held in Garching from 8th to 12th October 2007 was organised by ESO, with support from its Scienti c and Technical Committee, to provide a forum for the astronomical community to debate the long term future of ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) and its interferometric mode (VLTI). In particular it was considered useful for future planning to evaluate how its science use may evolve over the next decade due to competition and/or synergy with new facilities such as ALMA, JWST and, hopefully, at least one next generation 30–40 m extremely large telescope whose acronym appears in the title to symbolise this wider context. These discussions ...
Scientific Drivers for ESO Future VLT/VLTI Instrumentation
This is the start of a long process to ultimately operate new advanced capabilities at Paranal that can keep up with the evergrowing need for larger and more complex astrophysical data sets. A modern instrument represents a very significant investment in cash, human resources and time. Such a meeting gives us a precious yardstick to evaluate the competitiveness of 1st-generation instruments and associated current and forthcoming proposals for 1st-generation upgrades. This is also crucial to orient the large research and development effort that will provide the very foundation on which 2nd-generation VLT instrumentation can be built. Finally, it represents a significant step towards defining the hopes and goals for the future Extremely Large Telescope to come. The first outcome of this meeting, already in progress, is outlined in the epilogue.
The Messenger
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Herbig-Haro Flows and the Birth of Low Mass Stars
An overview of recent observational and theoretical developments in the study of Herbig-Haro jets and their role in the complex and violent processes that govern the birth of low-mass stars. The 47 papers cover specific Herbig-Haro objects, free-hydrogen flows, and radio jets; the physics and chemistry of molecular outflows; theoretical models; disks, winds, and magnetic fields; and protostars of high and low mass and their environment. A summary of the conference is also provided. Among the specific topics are Orion proplyds and The Eagle's Eggs, Hubble Space Telescope imaging of the disks and jets of Taurus young stellar objects, numerical simulations of optical knots in YSO outflows, shock chemistry in bipolar molecular outflows, and molecular hydrogen emission in embedded flows. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
