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Applying the Interferometric Baade-Wesselink method, hereafter IBW method, toVINCI/VLTI observations we determine the distance of seven Cepheids. For l Car, the more resolved star, we obtain an uncertainty on the derived distance of 5%. We also calibrate the zero-point of the Cepheid P-L relation with an uncertainty of 0.08 in magnitude....
The principles of optical long baseline interferometry are presented firstly from the point of view of the coherence of the stellar wavefront and secondly from the point of view of the Object-Image relationship. These two complementary approaches permit to extract some important considerations for the actual implementation of this imaging...
Imaging at high angular resolution (HRA) is a flourishing discipline. High performance instruments like the spectro-polarimeter SPHERE at VLT/ESO has recently been implemented. A harvest of splendid results is continuously coming from interferometry with PIONIER, MATISSE, and now GRAVITY (all at VLTI/ESO), VEGA and JouFlu (CHARA), and at longer...