Title:
FLUOR fibered beam combiner at the CHARA array
Authors:
Coude du Foresto, Vincent; Borde, Pascal J.; Merand, Antoine; Baudouin, Cyrille; Remond, Antonin; Perrin, Guy S.; Ridgway, Stephen T.; ten Brummelaar, Theo A.; McAlister, Harold A.
Affiliation:
AA(Observatoire de Paris-Meudon (France)), AB(Observatoire de Paris-Meudon (France)), AC(Observatoire des Paris-Meudon (France)), AD(Observatoire de Paris-Meudon (France)), AE(Observatoire de Paris-Meudon (France)), AF(Observatoire de Paris-Meudon (France)), AG(National Optical Astronomy Observatory (USA) and Observatoire de Paris-Meudon (France)), AH(CHARA/Georgia State Univ. (USA)), AI(CHARA/Georgia State Univ. (USA))
Journal:
Interferometry for Optical Astronomy II. Edited by Wesley A. Traub. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 4838, pp. 280-285 (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..280C

Abstract

The fibered beam combiner FLUOR, which has provided high accuracy visibility measurements on the IOTA interferometer, is being moved to the CHARA array which provides five 1m telescopes on baselines ranging from 35 to 330m. The combination CHARA/FLUOR makes it possible for the first time to achieve sub-milliarcsecond resolution in the K band, with a dynamic range of 100 or more. We explore the scientific potential of CHARA/FLUOR, most notably in the domains of high contrast binaries and the characterization of Cepheid pulsations, and present some of the anticipated developements.