VLT interferometer upgrade for the 2nd generation of interferometric instruments

ESO is undertaking a large upgrade of the infrastructure on Cerro Paranal in order to integrate the 2nd generation of interferometric instruments Gravity and MATISSE, and increase its performance. This upgrade started mid 2014 with the construction of a service station for the Auxiliary Telescopes and will end with the implementation of the adaptive optics system for the Auxiliary telescope (NAOMI) in 2018. This upgrade has an impact on the infrastructure of the VLTI, as well as its sub-systems and scientific instruments.

Christophe Dupuy | Andreas Glindemann | Gerardo Avila | Luca Pasquini | Gerard Zins | Norbert Hubin | Frank Eisenhauer | Jean-Louis Lizon | Ralf Conzelmann | Markus Schöller | Andres Pino | Willem-Jan de Wit | Jean-Philippe Berger | Pierre Bourget | Pierre Haguenauer | Roland Brast | Isabelle Percheron | Reinhold Dorn | Frederic Derie | Roberto Abuter | Julien Woillez | Nicolas Schuhler | José Antonio Abad | Jaime Alonso | Pablo José Barriga | Juan Beltran | Paul Bristow | Luis Caniguante | Angela Cortes | Diego Del Valle | Reinaldo Donoso | Philippe Duhoux | Eloy Fuenteseca | Daniel Gaytan | Jaime Gonzales | Andreas Haimerl | Lieselotte Jochum | Samuel Lévêque | Pedro Mardones | Juan Osorio | Jürgen Ott | Laurent Pallanca | Marcus Pavez | Andres Ramírez | Thomas Rivinius | Fernando Salgado | Christian Stephan | Richard Tamblay | Mario Tapia | Konrad Tristram | Guillermo Valdes | Christian Schmid | Andrew Wright | Jean-Francois Pirard | Stephane Guisard | Françoise Delplancke | Roberto Castillo | Silvia Scheithauer | Henri Bonnet | Pierre Antonelli | Fatmé Allouche | Alvaro Diaz | Antoine Merand | Claudio Reinero | Chester Rojas | Sebastian Egner | Rodrigo Huerta | Miguel Riquelme | Sebastien Poupar | Volker Heinz | Frederic Gonté | Sergio Abadie | Margarita Acuña | Luigi Andolfalto | Carlos Bolados | Christian Elao | Ruben Fernandez | Sylvain Guieu | Juan Pablo Henriquez | P. van der Heyden | Alfredo Leiva | Fernando Luco | Angel Mellado | Duc Than Phan | Juan Carlos Pineda | Juan Romero | Felix Rozas | Waldo Siclari

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