Title:
Jean-Marie Mariotti Center for Interferometry
Authors:
Chelli, Alain; Duvert, Gilles; Bonneau, Daniel; Perrin, Guy S.; Thiebaut, Eric M.; Mourard, Denis; Petrov, Romain G.; Cruzalebes, Pierre; Lopez, Bruno; Malbet, Fabien; Daigne, Gerard; Ollivier, Marc
Affiliation:
AA(Lab. d'Astrophysique de l'Observatoire de Grenoble (France)), AB(Lab. d'Astrophysique de Grenoble (France)), AC(Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur (France)), AD(Observatoire de Paris-Meudon (France)), AE(Observatoire de Lyon (France)), AF(Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur (France)), AG(Univ. de Nice-Sophia Antipolis (France)), AH(Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur (France)), AI(Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur (France)), AJ(Lab. d'Astrophysique de l'Observatoire de Grenoble (France)), AK(Observatoire de Bordeaux (France)), AL(Univ. de Paris-Sud (France))
Journal:
Interferometry for Optical Astronomy II. Edited by Wesley A. Traub. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 4838, pp. 144-151 (2003). (SPIE Homepage)
Publication Date:
02/2003
Origin:
SPIE
Abstract Copyright:
(c) 2003: SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering. Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.
Bibliographic Code:
2003SPIE.4838..144C

Abstract

The Jean-Marie Mariotti Center is a network of 11 French Institutes, Laboratories or Observatories, appointed by CNRS in 2000. It coordinates the efforts of the member institutes to offer all the potential users of interferometric facilities the best operational environment, providing software, academic formation and stimulating the prospective on new interferometric developments. At present, besides academic formation, the major effort is focused on the development of the software to prepare the observations, to reduce the data and to interpret the results in terms of models or reconstructed images. In this contribution, we describe the achievements and the future plans of the Mariotti Center.