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PIONIER: a status report
Abstract
The visitor instrument PIONIER provides VLTI with improved imaging capabilities and sensitivity. The instrument started routinely delivering scientic data in November 2010, that is less than 12 months after being approved by the ESO Science and Technical Committee. We recall the challenges that had to be tackled to design, built and commission PIONIER. We summarize the typical performances and some astrophysical results obtained so far. We conclude this paper by summarizing lessons learned.
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© 2012 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). PIONIER is funded by the Université Joseph Fourier (UJF, Grenoble) through its Poles TUNES and SMING and the vice-president of research, the Institut de Planétologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble, the "Agence Nationale pour la Recherche" with the programs ANR EXOZODI and ANR POLCA, and the Institut National des Science de l'Univers (INSU) with the programs "Programme National de Physique Stellaire" and "Programme National de Planétologie". The integrated optics beam combiner is the result of a collaboration between IPAG and CEA-LETI based on CNES R&T funding. The authors want to warmly thank all the people involved in the VLTI project. This work is based on observations made with the ESO telescopes. It made use of the Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) and of the Centre de Donnees astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS). All calculations and graphics were performed with the freeware Yorick.Attached Files
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- Université Joseph Fourier
- Institut de Planétologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble
- Agence Nationale pour la Recherche (ANR)
- EXOZODI
- Agence Nationale pour la Recherche (ANR)
- POLCA
- Institut National des Science de l'Univers (INSU)
- Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA)
- Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES)
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- Proceedings of SPIE
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- 8445