CHARA/MIRC-X: A high-sensitive six telescope interferometric imager concept, commissioning and early science

Narsireddy Anugu; Jean Baptiste Le Bouquin; John D. Monnier; Stefan Kraus; Gail Schaefer; Benjamin R. Setterholm; Claire L. Davies; Tyler Gardner; Aaron Labdon; Cyprien Lanthermann; Jacob Ennis; Theo Ten Brummelaar; Judit Sturmann; Matt Anderson; Chris Farrington; Norm Vargas; Olli Majoinen

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CHARA/MIRC-X: A high-sensitive six telescope interferometric imager concept, commissioning and early science

Narsireddy Anugu, Jean Baptiste Le Bouquin, John D. Monnier, Stefan Kraus, Gail Schaefer, Benjamin R. Setterholm, Claire L. Davies, Tyler Gardner, Aaron Labdon, Cyprien Lanthermann, Jacob Ennis, Theo Ten Brummelaar, Judit Sturmann, Matt Anderson, Chris Farrington, Norm Vargas, Olli Majoinen

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Abstract

MIRC-X is a six telescope beam combiner at the CHARA array that works in J and H wavelength bands and provides an angular resolution equivalent to a B=331m diameter telescope. The legacy MIRC combiner has delivered outstanding results in the fields of stellar astrophysics and binaries. However, we required higher sensitivity to make ambitious scientific measurements of faint targets such as young stellar objects, binary systems with exoplanets, and active galactic nuclei. For that purpose, MIRC-X is built and is offered to the community since mid-2017. MIRC-X has demonstrated up to two magnitudes of improved faint magnitude sensitivity with the best-case H <= 8. Here we present a review of the instrument and present early science results, and highlight some of our ongoing science programs.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Optical and Infrared Interferometry and Imaging VII
Editors	Peter G. Tuthill, Antoine Merand, Stephanie Sallum
Publisher	SPIE
ISBN (Electronic)	9781510636798
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2561579
State	Published - 2020
Externally published	Yes
Event	Optical and Infrared Interferometry and Imaging VII 2020 - Virtual, Online, United States Duration: Dec 14 2020 → Dec 22 2020

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Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	11446
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)	1996-756X

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Conference	Optical and Infrared Interferometry and Imaging VII 2020
Country/Territory	United States
City	Virtual, Online
Period	12/14/20 → 12/22/20

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Keywords

Adaptive optics
CHARA array
MIRC-X
MYSTIC
Optical interferometry
SPICA

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Anugu, N., Le Bouquin, J. B., Monnier, J. D., Kraus, S., Schaefer, G., Setterholm, B. R., Davies, C. L., Gardner, T., Labdon, A., Lanthermann, C., Ennis, J., Ten Brummelaar, T., Sturmann, J., Anderson, M., Farrington, C., Vargas, N., & Majoinen, O. (2020). CHARA/MIRC-X: A high-sensitive six telescope interferometric imager concept, commissioning and early science. In P. G. Tuthill, A. Merand, & S. Sallum (Eds.), Optical and Infrared Interferometry and Imaging VII Article 114460N (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 11446). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2561579

CHARA/MIRC-X: A high-sensitive six telescope interferometric imager concept, commissioning and early science. / Anugu, Narsireddy; Le Bouquin, Jean Baptiste; Monnier, John D. et al.
Optical and Infrared Interferometry and Imaging VII. ed. / Peter G. Tuthill; Antoine Merand; Stephanie Sallum. SPIE, 2020. 114460N (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 11446).

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Anugu, N, Le Bouquin, JB, Monnier, JD, Kraus, S, Schaefer, G, Setterholm, BR, Davies, CL, Gardner, T, Labdon, A, Lanthermann, C, Ennis, J, Ten Brummelaar, T, Sturmann, J, Anderson, M, Farrington, C, Vargas, N & Majoinen, O 2020, CHARA/MIRC-X: A high-sensitive six telescope interferometric imager concept, commissioning and early science. in PG Tuthill, A Merand & S Sallum (eds), Optical and Infrared Interferometry and Imaging VII., 114460N, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, vol. 11446, SPIE, Optical and Infrared Interferometry and Imaging VII 2020, Virtual, Online, United States, 12/14/20. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2561579

Anugu N, Le Bouquin JB, Monnier JD, Kraus S, Schaefer G, Setterholm BR et al. CHARA/MIRC-X: A high-sensitive six telescope interferometric imager concept, commissioning and early science. In Tuthill PG, Merand A, Sallum S, editors, Optical and Infrared Interferometry and Imaging VII. SPIE. 2020. 114460N. (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering). doi: 10.1117/12.2561579

Anugu, Narsireddy ; Le Bouquin, Jean Baptiste ; Monnier, John D. et al. / CHARA/MIRC-X : A high-sensitive six telescope interferometric imager concept, commissioning and early science. Optical and Infrared Interferometry and Imaging VII. editor / Peter G. Tuthill ; Antoine Merand ; Stephanie Sallum. SPIE, 2020. (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering).

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