MATTER , Alexis

The giant planets of our solar system possess envelopes consisting mainly of hydrogen and helium but are also significantly enriched in heavier elements relatively to our Sun. In order to better constrain how these heavy elements have been delivered, we quantify the amount accreted during the so-called "late heavy bombardment", at a time when...

The inner regions (0.1-10 au) of protoplanetary discs are the expected birthplace of telluric planets. In those hot regions, solids can experience cyclical annealing, vapourisation, and recondensation. Hot/warm dust grains emit mostly in the IR, notably in N-band (8-13 ?m). Studying their chemistry with the new MIR VLTI instrument MATISSE,...

Workshop program and abstracts available at: http://www.imcce.fr/hosted_sites/workshop/PPA2010/#venue and http://www.imcce.fr/hosted_sites/workshop/PPA2010/workshop2010/PPA2010-Delbo.pdf

We describe the first determination of thermal properties and size of the M-type asteroid (16) Psyche from interferometric observations obtained with the Mid-Infrared Interferometric Instrument (MIDI) of the Very Large Telescope Interferometer. We used a thermophysical model to interpret our interferometric data. Our analysis shows that Psyche...

It has been more than 20 years since optical-interferometric facilities first started producing spectro-interferometric data, and yet the number of general user tools able to handle this type of data properly is limited. Moreover, they often either focus on simple generic cases (e.g., simple grey geometrical models defined with analytical...

Context. In 2002, V838 Monocerotis (V838 Mon) erupted in a red nova event that has been interpreted as being a stellar merger. Soon after reaching peak luminosity, it began to cool and its spectrum evolved to later spectral types. Dust was also formed in the post-merger remnant, making it bright in the mid-infrared. Interferometric studies at...

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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...

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...

ABSTRACT Single dish observations of NGC 1068 have shown the presence of a 3.4 μm aliphatic hydrocarbon absorption feature similar to diffuse lines of sight towards the Galactic Centre. Both, the single dish spectra and the correlated fluxes obtained by MATISSE, present a broad absorption profile in the L band as well, that vary from baseline...

The VLTI has a huge potential for the study of Active Galactic Nuclei. It allows to resolve the BLR by phase differential interferometry and to make images of the inner dust « torus ». The first generation VLTI instruments AMBER and MIDI allowed studies of the size-luminosity of the inner dust structures and showed strong departures from the...

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