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NASA JPL

• Optical Long Baseline Interferometer News
• Selected Reading in Long Baseline Stellar Interferometry

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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