Status of the LBT Interferometer

被引：23

作者：

Hinz, Philip M. ^{[1
]}

Bippert-Plymate, Teresa ^{[1
]}

Breuninger, Andy ^{[1
]}

Connors, Tom ^{[1
]}

Duffy, Brian ^{[1
]}

Esposito, Simone ^{[2
]}

Hoffman, William ^{[1
]}

Kim, Jihun ^{[1
]}

Kraus, Joe ^{[1
]}

McMahon, Thomas ^{[1
]}

Montoya, Manny ^{[1
]}

Nash, Richard ^{[1
]}

Durney, Olivier ^{[1
]}

Solheid, Elliott ^{[1
]}

Tozzi, Andrea ^{[2
]}

Vaitheeswaran, Vidhya ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Arizona, Steward Observ, 933 N Cherry Ave, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA

[2] Osserv Astrofis Arcetri, I-50125 Florence, Italy

来源：

OPTICAL AND INFRARED INTERFEROMETRY | 2008年 / 7013卷

关键词：

LBTI; Interferometer; Exoplanets;

D O I：

10.1117/12.790211

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

The Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer, a thermal infrared imager and nulling interferometer for the LBT, is currently being integrated and tested at Steward Observatory. The system consists of a general purpose or universal beamcombiner (UBC) and three camera ports, one of which is populated currently by the Nulling and Imaging Camera (NIC). Wavefront sensing is carried out using pyramid-based "W" units developed at Arcetri Observatory. The system is designed for high spatial resolution, high dynamic range imaging in the thermal infrared. A key project for the program is to survey nearby stars for debris disks down to levels which may obscure detection of Earth-like planets. During 2007-2008 the UBC portion of the LBTI was assembled and tested at Steward Observatory. Initial integration of the system with the LBT is currently in progress as the W units and NIC are being completed in parallel.

引用

页数：9

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