Recent technical and scientific highlights from the CHARA Array
Gies, Douglas R.; ten Brummelaar, Theo A.; Anderson, Matthew D.; Farrington, Christopher D.; Golden, Steven; Jones, Jeremy W.; Klement, Robert; Majoinen, Olli; Schaefer, Gail H.; Sturmann, Judit; Sturmann, Laszlo; Turner, Nils H.; Vargas, Norman L.; Webster, Larry; Woods, Craig; Ridgway, Stephen T.
Angol nyelvű Konferenciaközlemény (Könyvrészlet) Tudományos
The CHARA Array is a six-element, optical/NIR interferometer, which currently has
the largest operational baselines in the world. The Array is operated by Georgia State
University and is located at the Mount Wilson Observatory in California. The Array
thrives thanks to members of the CHARA consortium that includes LESIA (Observatoire
de Paris), Observatoire de la Cote dAzur, University of Michigan, Sydney University,
Australian National University, and University of Exeter. Here we give a brief introduction
to the Array infrastructure with a focus on a developing Adaptive Optics (AO) program,
the new community access program funded by the NSF, and recent science results.
