Interferometry concepts

Florentin Millour (1)

1 LAGRANGE - Joseph Louis LAGRANGE

This paper serves as an introduction to the current book. It provides the basic notions of long-baseline optical/infrared interferome-try prior to reading all the subsequent chapters, and is not an extended introduction to the field.

Mots clés: Optical long-baseline interferometry; iinstrument concepts; CHARA; VLTI

Domaines: Astrophysique stellaire et solaire [astro-ph.SR]; Instrumentation et méthodes pour l'astrophysique [astro-ph.IM]

Florentin Millour. Interferometry concepts. F. Millour, A. Chiavassa, L. Bigot, O. Chesneau, A. Meilland & P. Stee. What can the highest angular resolution bring to stellar astrophysics?, 69-70, EDP sciences, 2015, EAS publication series, 978-2-7598-1833-2. ⟨10.1051/eas/1569003⟩. ⟨hal-01183452⟩