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Comprehensive List of Baseline Interferometer Projects Worldwide

Operational Ground-Based Interferometers
:: CHARA Array - Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy Array (Mount Wilson Observatory, California; GSU Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Georgia)
:: COAST - Cambridge Optical Aperture Synthesis Telescope (MRAO, UK).
:: ISI - Infrared Spatial Interferometer (Mount Wilson Observatory, California).
:: Keck Interferometer (Keck Observatory, OTP, Mauna Kea, Hawaii).
:: MIRA-1.2 - Mitaka IR Array (Optical and Infrared Astronomy Div., NAOJ, Japan).
:: NPOI - Navy Prototype Optical Interferometer (Lowell Observatory, Arizona).
:: PTI - Palomar Testbed Interferometer (Caltech, Mount Palomar, California).
:: SUSI - Sydney University Stellar Interferometer (Narrabri, Australia).
:: VLTI - The Very Large Telescope Interferometer (European Southern Observatory, Cerro Paranal, Chile)

Ground-Based Interferometers and Instruments under Construction

:: Large Binocular Telescope (Mount Graham, Arizona)

Ground-Based Interferometry Projects Under Development
:: OHANA Optical Hawaiian Array for Nanoradian Astronomy. (See also the OHANA Obs. Paris site.)

Space Interferometry
:: Space Interferometry Mission (JPL, NASA)
:: Terrestrial Planet Finder (JPL, NASA)
:: Darwin - search for extra-solar planets. To be launched as an ESA-only or ESA-lead mission around 2015 (ESA).
:: GENIE - Nulling interferometry with the VLTI. Nulling at 3.6 and/or 10 microns. First light in 2008 (ESA).
:: COROT - transit survey (ESA).

Interferometry Projects Being Studied

:: Antarctic Plateau Interferometer (API)
:: OVLA - Optical Very Large Array (LISE, Obs. Haute Provence, France).
:: SI - Stellar Imager (Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA).
:: LAMA - Large-Aperture Mirror Array (Location undecided).
:: MAXIM - a space-based X-Ray Interferometer.
:: SPECS - Submillimeter Probe of the Evolution of Cosmic Structure(Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA).
:: OSIRIS - Astrometric interferometer to be attached to the Space Station in 2003 (Institute of Astronomy, Russia).

Interferometry Groups and Institutions
:: FRINGE - Frontiers of Interferometry in Germany (Heidelberg, Germany).
:: JMMC - Jean-Marie Mariotti Center (Grenoble, France).
:: MSC - Michelson Science Center (Caltech, California)
:: NEVEC - Nova-ESO VLTI Expertise Center (Leiden, Netherlands).
:: EII - European Interferometry Initiative for Astronomy.
:: OPTICON EII-JRA4 - Integrating interferometry into mainstream astronomy.
:: ASHRA - Actions Spécifique Haute Résolution Angulaire (INSU/CNRS, France).

Interferometry Related Pages

:: Les Pages Francaises du "Very Large Telescope"
:: Astrometry sites listed by the Hubble Space Telescope Astrometry Team.
:: Studies in Optical Aperture Synthesis and Image Restoration at ONERA.
:: Interférométrie Solaire through the Service d'Aéronomie du CNRS.
:: Concordia Station, AASTINO Project, MASS turbulence profiler; Concordiastro (France, Italy)

Interferometry with Single Telescopes
:: MPIfR Optical & Infrared Interferometry Group (Bonn, Germany).
:: Peter Tuthill's Home Page (University of Sydney, Australia).
:: John Monnier's Home Page, (University of Michigan, USA).
:: Chris Haniff's Astronomy Page (University of Cambridge, UK).
:: Fourth Catalog of Interferometric Measurements of Binary Stars, W.I. Hartkopf, B.D. Mason, G.L. Wycoff, and H.A. McAlister
:: Le Coronographe Interférentiel Achromatique (Obs. Nice, France).
:: SPeckle pour Imagerie par Déconvolution (SPID) (Observatoire de Lyon, France).
:: Fine Guidance Sensor Homepage from the Space Telescope Science Institute.
:: Ein visuelles Stern-Interferometer im Eigenbau described by Franz Kerschbaum in Sterne und Weltraum.

 

 

 

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