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The complete reference is New Astronomy Reviews (October 2007), Volume 51, Issues 8-9, 563-730.
Observation and Data Reduction with the VLT Interferometer
Proceedings of the VLTI Euro Summer School held in Goutelas, France, 4-16 June 2006
Edited by Fabien Malbet and Guy Perrin
Supported by EC contract No. MSCF-CT-2005-029954
Table of contents
- 1. Principles of optical interferometry
- An introduction to the theory of interferometry (C. Haniff)
- An introduction to visibility modeling (J.-P. Berger & D. Ségransan)
- Ground-based optical interferometry: a practical primer (C. Haniff)
- Observability and UV coverage (D. Ségransan)
- Phases in Interferometry (J.D. Monnier)
- 2. Interferometry in practice
- Calibrating optical/IR interferometry visibility data (A. Boden)
- Searching for calibrators (G. Duvert & D. Bonneau)
- 3. Preparing VLTI observations
- The Very Large Telescope Interferometer: Current facility and prospects (M. Schöller)
- MIDI and AMBER from the user’s point of view (M. Wittkowski)
- Preparation of VLTI observations (G. Duvert & G. Duchêne)
- Preparing an ESO proposal (P. Kervella & P. Garcia)
- 4. Data reduction and model fitting
- MIDI: Obtaining and analysing interferometric data in the mid-infrared (Chesneau)
- AMBER data reduction (Tatulli, Duvert)
- 5. Model fitting
- Model fitting tutorial (Tallon-Bosc, Tallon)
- 6. Optical interferometry through examples