Milli-arcsecond Astrophysics with VSI, the VLTI Spectro-imager in the ELT Era
- Author(s)
- Fabien Malbet, David Buscher, Gerd Weigelt, Paulo Garcia, Mario Gai, Josef Hron, Bernhard Aringer
- Abstract
Nowadays, compact sources relatively warm like surfaces of nearby stars, circumstellar environments of stars from early stages to the most evolved ones and surroundings of active galactic nuclei can be investigated at milli-arcsecond scales only with the VLT in its interferometric mode. We propose a spectro-imager, named VSI (VLTI spectro-imager), which is capable to probe these sources both over spatial and spectral scales in the near-infrared domain. This instrument will provide information complementary to what is obtained at the same time with ALMA at different wavelengths and the extreme large telescopes.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Astrophysics
- External organisation(s)
- Observatoire des sciences de l'univers de Grenoble, University of Cambridge, Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Universidade do Porto, INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino
- Publication date
- 2009
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103004 Astrophysics, 103003 Astronomy
- Portal url
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/milliarcsecond-astrophysics-with-vsi-the-vlti-spectroimager-in-the-elt-era(b55ac77c-3821-4f4c-bf88-6c671c71ed92).html