The GRAVITY+ Project: Towards All-sky, Faint-Science, High-Contrast Near-Infrared Interferometry at the VLTI

GRAVITY+, Collaboration,; :,; Abuter, R.; Patricio, Alarcon,; Allouche, F.; Amorim, A.; Bailet, C.; Helen, Bedigan,; Berdeu, Anthony; Berger, J.‐P.; Bério, Philippe; Bigioli, Azzurra; Richard, Blaho,; Olivier, Boebion,; Marie-Lena, Bolzer,; Bonnet, Henri; Bourdarot, Guillaume; Bourget, P.; Brandner, W.; Cárdenas, César; Conzelmann, Ralf; Comin, Mauro; Clénet, Y.; Courtney-Barrer, Benjamin; Dallilar, Y.; Davies, R. I.; Defrère, Denis; Delboulbé, A.; Delplancke-Ströbele, F.; Dembet, R.; Zeeuw, Tim de; Drescher, A.; Eckart, A.; Clemence, Édouard,; Eisenhauer, F.; Fabricius, Maximilian; Feuchtgruber, H.; Finger, Gert; Schreiber, N. M. Förster; Fuenteseca, Eloy; García, Enrique Rivera; Garcia, Paulo J. V.; Gao, F.; Gendron, É.; Genzel, R.; Gil, Juan Pablo; Gillessen, S.; Gomes, Tiago; Gonté, Frederic; Gouvret, Carole; Guajardo, P.; Guidolin, I.; Guieu, S.; Ronald, Guzmann,; Hackenberg, W.; Haddad, Nicolas; Hartl, Michael; Haubois, X.; Haußmann, F.; Heißel, G.; Henning, Thomas; Hippler, S.; Hönig, S. F.; Horrobin, M.; Hubin, N.; Jacqmart, Estelle; Jocou, L.; Kaufer, A.; Kervella, P.; Kirchbauer, Jean-Paul; Kolb, J.; Korhonen, H.; Kreidberg, Laura; Krempl, P. W.; Lacour, S.; Lagarde, S.; Lai, Olivier; Lapeyrère, V.; Laugier, R.; Bouquin, Jean-Baptiste Le; Leftley, James; Léna, Pierre; Lewis, S.A.E.; Lutz, D.; Magnard, Y.; Felix, Mang,; Marcotto, A.; Maurel, D.; Mérand, A.; Millour, F.; More, Nikhil; Hugo, Nowack,; Nowak, Matthias; Oberti, Sylvain; Olivares, Francisco Javier Vidal; Ott, Thomas; Pallanca, L.; Paumard, T.; Perraut, K.; Perrin, G.; Petrov, Romain G.; Pfuhl, O.; Pourré, Nicolas; Rabien, S.; Rau, C.; Riquelme, M.; Robbe-Dubois, S.; Rochat, S.; Salman, Muhammad; Malte, Scherbarth,; Schöller, M.; Schubert, Joseph H.; Schuhler, Nicolas; Shangguan, J.; Shchekaturov, Pavel; Shimizu, Taro; Scheithauer, S.; Sevin, Arnaud; Soenke, C.; Soulez, Ferréol; Spang, A.; Stadler, Eric; Straubmeier, C.; Sturm, E.; Sykes, Calvin; Tacconi, L. J.; Helmut, Tischer,; Tristram, K.; Vincent, F.; Fellenberg, S. von; Uysal, Sinem; Widmann, F.; Wieprecht, E.; Wiezorrek, E.; Woillez, J.; Yazici, S.; Zins, G.

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“…A standard interferometer project, similar in its beam combination principle to the European VLT Interferometer (VLTI) with GRAVITY science instruments [26], has recently been proposed for the Moon [27]. It could have a 10 km baseline, leading to a 10 µ as angular resolution at 0.5 µm.…”

Section: I) Standard Interferometermentioning

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Astronomy from the moon in the next decades: from exoplanets to cosmology in visible light and beyond

Schneider,

Kervella,

Labeyrie

2024

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A.

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We look at what astronomy from the Moon might be like over the next few decades. The Moon offers the possibility of installing large telescopes or interferometers with instruments larger than those on orbiting telescopes. We first present examples of ambitious science cases, in particular ideas that cannot be implemented from Earth. After a general review of observational approaches, from photometry to high contrast and high angular resolution imaging, we propose as a first step a 1-metre-class precursor and explore what science can be done with it. We add a proposal to use the Earth–Moon system to test the quantum physics theory. This article is part of a discussion meeting issue 'Astronomy from the Moon: the next decades (part 2)'.

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Section: I) Standard Interferometermentioning

confidence: 99%

Astronomy from the moon in the next decades: from exoplanets to cosmology in visible light and beyond

Schneider,

Kervella,

Labeyrie

2024

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A.

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“…A standard interferometer project, similar to the Gravity interferometer at the european VLT [9] has recently been proposed for the Moon [10]. It could have a several kilometre baseline.…”

Section: Standard Interferometermentioning

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OWL-Moon: Very high resolution spectropolarimetric interferometry and imaging from the Moon: exoplanets to cosmology

Silk¹,

Vakili

2022

Exp Astron

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We outline a concept for OWL-Moon, a 50-100m aperture telescope located on the surface of the Moon, to address three major areas in astronomy, namely the detection of biosignatures on habitable exoplanets, the geophysics of exoplanets, and cosmology. Such a large lunar telescope, when coupled with large Earth-based telescopes, would allow Intensity Interferometric measurements, leading to picoarcsecond angular resolution. This would have applications in many areas of astronomy and is timely in light of the renewed interest of space agencies in returning to the Moon.

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The high energy X-ray probe (HEX-P): science overview

García,

Stern,

Madsen

et al. 2024

Front. Astron. Space Sci.

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To answer NASA’s call for a sensitive X-ray observatory in the 2030s, we present the High Energy X-ray Probe (HEX-P) mission concept. HEX-P is designed to provide the required capabilities to explore current scientific questions and make new discoveries with a broadband X-ray observatory that simultaneously measures sources from 0.2 to 80 keV. HEX-P’s main scientific goals include: 1) understand the growth of supermassive black holes and how they drive galaxy evolution; 2) explore the lower mass populations of white dwarfs, neutron stars, and stellar-mass black holes in the nearby universe; 3) explain the physics of the mysterious corona, the luminous plasma close to the central engine of accreting compact objects that dominates cosmic X-ray emission; and 4) find the sources of the highest energy particles in the Galaxy. These goals motivate a sensitive, broadband X-ray observatory with imaging, spectroscopic, and timing capabilities, ensuring a versatile platform to serve a broad General Observer (GO) and Guest Investigator (GI) community. In this paper, we present an overview of these mission goals, which have been extensively discussed in a collection of more than a dozen papers that are part of this Research Topic volume. The proposed investigations will address key questions in all three science themes highlighted by Astro2020, including their associated priority areas. HEX-P will extend the capabilities of the most sensitive low- and high-energy X-ray satellites currently in orbit and will complement existing and planned high-energy, time-domain, and multi-messenger facilities in the next decade.

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The GRAVITY+ Project: Towards All-sky, Faint-Science, High-Contrast Near-Infrared Interferometry at the VLTI

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Astronomy from the moon in the next decades: from exoplanets to cosmology in visible light and beyond

Astronomy from the moon in the next decades: from exoplanets to cosmology in visible light and beyond

OWL-Moon: Very high resolution spectropolarimetric interferometry and imaging from the Moon: exoplanets to cosmology

The high energy X-ray probe (HEX-P): science overview

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