From planetary birth with aperture masking interferometry to nulling with Lithium Niobate technology

Project Information

LITHIUM

Grant agreement ID: 639248

DOI 10.3030/639248

Project closed

EC signature date 6 February 2015

Start date 1 March 2015

End date 29 February 2020

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 851 881,00

EU contribution € 1 851 881,00

Coordinated by

CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS
France

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (12)

A Resolved and Asymmetric Ring of PAHs within the Young Circumstellar Disk of IRS 48

Author(s): Guillaume Schworer, Sylvestre Lacour, Nuria Huélamo, Christophe Pinte, Gaël Chauvin, Vincent Coudé du Foresto, David Ehrenreich, Julien Girard, Peter Tuthill
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 842/2, 2017, Page(s) 77, ISSN 1538-4357
Publisher: A&A
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa74b7

Coherence and information in a fiber interferometer

Author(s): Aglaé Kellerer, Sidney Wright, Sylvestre Lacour
Published in: American Journal of Physics, Issue 85/1, 2017, Page(s) 6-13, ISSN 0002-9505
Publisher: American Association of Physics Teachers
DOI: 10.1119/1.4964358

First light for GRAVITY: Phase referencing optical interferometry for the Very Large Telescope Interferometer

Author(s): R. Abuter, M. Accardo, A. Amorim, N. Anugu, G. Ávila, N. Azouaoui, M. Benisty, J. P. Berger, N. Blind, H. Bonnet, P. Bourget, W. Brandner, R. Brast, A. Buron, L. Burtscher, F. Cassaing, F. Chapron, É. Choquet, Y. Clénet, C. Collin, V. Coudé du Foresto, W. de Wit, P. T. de Zeeuw, C. Deen, F. Delplancke-Ströbele, R. Dembet, F. Derie, J. Dexter, G. Duvert, M. Ebert, A. Eckart, F. Eisenhauer, M.
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 602, 2017, Page(s) A94, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201730838

A multi-wavelength interferometric study of the massive young stellar object IRAS 13481-6124

Author(s): Paul A. Boley, Stefan Kraus, Willem-Jan de Wit, Hendrik Linz, Roy van Boekel, Thomas Henning, Sylvestre Lacour, John D. Monnier, Bringfried Stecklum, Peter G. Tuthill
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 586, 2016, Page(s) A78, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201527502

The Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme Adaptive Optics System: Enabling High-Contrast Imaging on Solar-System Scales

Author(s): N. Jovanovic, F. Martinache, O. Guyon, C. Clergeon, G. Singh, T. Kudo, V. Garrel, K. Newman, D. Doughty, J. Lozi, J. Males, Y. Minowa, Y. Hayano, N. Takato, J. Morino, J. Kuhn, E. Serabyn, B. Norris, P. Tuthill, G. Schworer, P. Stewart, L. Close, E. Huby, G. Perrin, S. Lacour, L. Gauchet, S. Vievard, N. Murakami, F. Oshiyama, N. Baba, T. Matsuo, J. Nishikawa, M. Tamura, O. Lai, F. Marchis, G. Duch
Published in: Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Issue 127/955, 2015, Page(s) 890-910, ISSN 0004-6280
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
DOI: 10.1086/682989

An M-dwarf star in the transition disk of Herbig HD 142527

Author(s): S. Lacour, B. Biller, A. Cheetham, A. Greenbaum, T. Pearce, S. Marino, P. Tuthill, L. Pueyo, E. E. Mamajek, J. H. Girard, A. Sivaramakrishnan, M. Bonnefoy, I. Baraffe, G. Chauvin, J. Olofsson, A. Juhasz, M. Benisty, J.-U. Pott, A. Sicilia-Aguilar, T. Henning, A. Cardwell, S. Goodsell, J. R. Graham, P. Hibon, P. Ingraham, Q. Konopacky, B. Macintosh, R. Oppenheimer, M. Perrin, F. Rantakyrö, N. Sada
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 590, 2016, Page(s) A90, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201527863

Sparse aperture masking at the VLT

Author(s): L. Gauchet, S. Lacour, A.-M. Lagrange, D. Ehrenreich, M. Bonnefoy, J. H. Girard, A. Boccaletti
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 595, 2016, Page(s) A31, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201526404

The weather report from IRC+10216: evolving irregular clouds envelop carbon star

Author(s): P. N. Stewart, P. G. Tuthill, J. D. Monnier, M. J. Ireland, M. M. Hedman, P. D. Nicholson, S. Lacour
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 455/3, 2015, Page(s) 3102-3109, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stv2454

First direct detection of an exoplanet by optical interferometry

Author(s): S. Lacour, M. Nowak, J. Wang, O. Pfuhl, F. Eisenhauer, R. Abuter, A. Amorim, N. Anugu, M. Benisty, J. P. Berger, H. Beust, N. Blind, M. Bonnefoy, H. Bonnet, P. Bourget, W. Brandner, A. Buron, C. Collin, B. Charnay, F. Chapron, Y. Clénet, V. Coudé du Foresto, P. T. de Zeeuw, C. Deen, R. Dembet, J. Dexter, G. Duvert, A. Eckart, N. M. Förster Schreiber, P. Fédou, P. Garcia, R. Garcia Lopez, F. Ga
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 623, 2019, Page(s) L11, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201935253

Is stellar multiplicity universal? Tight stellar binaries in the Orion Nebula Cluster

Author(s): Gaspard Duchêne, S Lacour, E Moraux, S Goodwin, J Bouvier
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2018, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty1180

The GRAVITY fringe tracker

Author(s): S. Lacour, R. Dembet, R. Abuter, P. Fédou, G. Perrin, É. Choquet, O. Pfuhl, F. Eisenhauer, J. Woillez, F. Cassaing, E. Wieprecht, T. Ott, E. Wiezorrek, K. R. W. Tristram, B. Wolff, A. Ramírez, X. Haubois, K. Perraut, C. Straubmeier, W. Brandner, A. Amorim
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 624, 2019, Page(s) A99, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201834981

SAGE: finding IMBH in the black hole desert

Author(s): S Lacour, F H Vincent, M Nowak, A Le Tiec, V Lapeyrere, L David, P Bourget, A Kellerer, K Jani, J Martino, J-Y Vinet, O Godet, O Straub, J Woillez
Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity, Issue 36/19, 2019, Page(s) 195005, ISSN 0264-9381
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6382/ab3583

Conference proceedings (3)

Sparse aperture masking with SPHERE

Author(s): Anthony C. Cheetham, Julien Girard, Sylvestre Lacour, Guillaume Schworer, Xavier Haubois, Jean-Luc Beuzit
Published in: Optical and Infrared Interferometry and Imaging V, 2016, Page(s) 99072T
Publisher: SPIE
DOI: 10.1117/12.2231983

Reaching sub-milimag photometric precision on Beta Pictoris with a nanosat: the PicSat mission

Author(s): M. Nowak, S. Lacour, V. Lapeyrère, L. David, A. Crouzier, C. Dufoing, H. Faiz, T. Lemoult, P. Trébuchet
Published in: Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave, 2016, Page(s) 99044L
Publisher: SPIE
DOI: 10.1117/12.2232508

Short life and abrupt death of PicSat, a small 3U CubeSat dreaming of exoplanet detection

Author(s): Mathias Nowak, Sylvestre Lacour, Antoine Crouzier, Lester David, Vincent Lapeyrère, Guillaume Schworer
Published in: Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave, 2018, Page(s) 71, ISBN 9781-510619500
Publisher: SPIE
DOI: 10.1117/12.2313242