LAGARDE , Stéphane

Spectro-interferometry is a powerful technique to study astrophysical objects. All modern interferometric instruments offer at least a limited spectral resolution allowing to probe geometry as the function of the wavelength. Some even offer high-enough resolutions to resolve narrow spectral features allowing to constrain physical, chemical and...

Pupil-remapping is a new high-dynamic range imaging technique that has recently demonstrated feasibility on sky. The current prototypes present however deceiving limiting magnitude, restricting the current use to the brightest stars in the sky. We propose to combine pupil-remapping with spatio-spectral encoding, a technique first applied to the...

Pupil-remapping is a new high-dynamic range imaging technique that has recently demonstrated feasibility on sky. The current prototypes present however deceiving limiting magnitude, restricting the current use to the brightest stars in the sky. We propose to combine pupil-remapping with spatio-spectral encoding, a technique first applied to the...

The observable quantities in optical interferometry, which are the modulus and the phase of the complex visibility, may be corrupted by parasitic fringes superimposed on the genuine fringe pattern. These fringes are due to an interference phenomenon occurring from stray light effects inside an interferometric instrument. We developed an...

MATISSE est un instrument de 2nde génération du VLTI. C'est un instrument spectro-imageur couvrant les bandes L,M et N dans l'infrarouge moyen (de 3 à 13 µm). Ce rapport à l'ESO décrit le commissioning de MATISSE et présente l'ensemble de ses performances. Les performances contractuelles de MATISSE sont complétées par une première évaluation du...

With the aim of pushing the limiting magnitude of interferometric instruments, the need for wide-band detection channels and for a coordinated operation of different instruments has considerably grown in the field of long-baseline interferometry. For this reason, the Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA), an array of six...

MATISSE est l'instrument de seconde génération du VLTI dédié à la spectro-interférométrie dans l'infrarouge moyen, de 3 à 13 µm. Ce rapport à l'ESO décrit son commissioning, son optimisation et l'ensemble de ses performances telles qu'elles devraient être offertes aux utilisateurs de l'ESO. Cette version du rapport est la version finale pour...

Hierarchical Fringe Tracking (HFT) is a fringe tracking concept optimizing the sensitivity in optical long baseline by reducing to an absolute minimum the number of measurements used to correct the OPD fluctuations. By nature, the performances of an HFT do not decreases with the number of apertures of the interferometer and are set only by the...