OLBIN - News 1998
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Editorials of 4 May 1998,
3 June 1998,
2 Sept 1998,
27 Oct 1998 and
19 Nov 1998.
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- 98.12.14
- - An English translation from French of Sur l'extrême petitesse du diamètre apparent des étoiles fixes by Edouard Stéphan (1874) is available courtesy of P.R. Lawson.
- 98.12.11
- - Andreas Glindemann has been chosen as the new head of the
VLTI Group at ESO.
- 98.12.4
- - An English translation from French of Extrait d'une lettre de M. Stéphan à M. Fizeau by Edouard Stéphan (1873) is available courtesy of P.R. Lawson.
- 98.12.1
- - An English translation from French of Prix Bordin: rapport sur le concours de l'année 1867 by Hippolyte Fizeau (1868) is available courtesy of P.R. Lawson.
- 98.12.1
- - The SIM Webpages have been
completely revised.
- 98.12.1
- - ESO has advertised 8 Interferometry positions in a list of 30 available jobs. Deadline is December 30th.
- 98.11.18
- - Some photographs of NPOI have been added to the OLBIN pages.
- 98.11.16
- - The GAIA web pages have been updated, but is GAIA still an interferometer?
- 98.11.11
- - An English translation from German of Ueber Messung von Dopplesternen durch Interferenzen by Karl Schwarzschild (1896) is available courtesy of Rudolf Danner.
- 98.11.11
- - A commercial version of the PAPA Camera is being marketed by Lexitek, Inc.
- 98.11.11
- - A list of papers describing Nulling Interferometry has been added to the OLBIN pages.
- 98.11.4
- - Magdalena Ridge Observatory as described in February 1998, and their new Home Page with
Web Cam.
- 98.11.3
- - Instructions to build your own Aluminium-foil Interferometer.
- 98.10.30
- - Photographs from the Workshop on Optical/IR Interferometry that was held in Flagstaff in October.
- 98.10.30
- - Announcement of the Award Winners for proposals under SIM Preparatory Science Program NRA 98-OSS-07.
- 98.10.27
- - Follow the progress of the LBT with the
Latest View
of its construction, updated hourly during the day.
- 98.10.21
- - 25 September 1998 issue of Science (Vol. 281, pp. 1940-1942)
contains a News Focus description of space interferometry
missions for planet finding - Seeking a snapshot of an alien world.
Also read the commentary by Prof. Antoine Labeyrie.
- 98.10.20
- - A list of Preprints of papers in stellar interferometry has been added to the OLBIN pages.
- 98.10.20
- - The NPOI Web pages have been updated and are once again available.
- 98.09.28
- - The Web pages of ONERA have
been updated.
- 98.09.22
- - A list of refereed papers published in 1998 has been added to the OLBIN pages.
- 98.09.14
- - Working on the Fringe, an International Conference on Optical and IR Interferometry
from the Ground and Space will be held at Dana Point,
California, May 24-28, 1999.
- 98.09.11
- - NASA Press Release announcing the choice of contractors for SIM.
- 98.09.10
- - The Deep Space 3 homepage has been revised. Also from the DS3 homepage you can enter a
Web Search Contest on star and planet formation.
- 98.09.09
- - Une Journée Scientifique à la memoire de Jean-Marie Mariotti
will be held at the Observatoire de Meudon on September 14, 1998.
- 98.09.04
- - The first telescope in the CHARA Array has passed acceptance testing in
Tuscon Arizona and is scheduled to be
delivered to Mnt. Wilson in November 1998.
- 98.09.02
- - The IOTA Web Site
has been revised and updated.
- 98.09.02
- - The Keck Interferometer project has passed its Critical Design Review at JPL, and purchasing
and construction of components may begin in the next few months.
- 98.08.19
- - Jean-Marie Mariotti passed away on July 28, 1998.
- 98.08.14
- - Photographs taken by Jim Breckinridge at the SPIE Conference at Kona.
- 98.08.07
- - First fringes on Vega with the Mira interferometer
were observed in June 1998.
- 98.08.07
- - AMOS (Liege, Belgium) has been awarded the contract for delivery of
the Auxiliary Telescopes (ATs) of the VLTI, as described in a
Press Release from ESO.
- 98.08.03
- - ESO Fellowship
Programme 1999/2000 has been announced.
- 98.07.24
- - Stereoscopic images of the GI2T, PTI, and SUSI available from my file of photographs - PRL.
- 98.07.14
- - Plans announced for the
Magdalena Ridge Observatory,
a three-element interferometer to be built
on South Baldy Peak in New Mexico near the VLA.
- 98.07.02
- - COAST obtains the first
infrared image (1.3 microns) by aperture synthesis with separated
telescopes.
- 98.07.02
- - NPOI obtains first fringes on Vega with its new infrared table in June 1998.
- 98.06.30
- - VLT Opening Conference has been announced for March 1-5 1999 at Antofagasta, Chile.
- 98.06.12
- - Optical/IR Interferometry Workshop will be held at Flagstaff, Arizona, 4-9 October 1998.
- 98.06.08
- - A distribution list has been set up for information and announcements on
SIM and optical/IR interferometry.
Detailed instructions are available on the SIM web site, under
New - SIM Mailing List
- 98.06.02
- - First-light
with the first Unit Telescope of the VLT took place on May 25-26.
- 98.05.13
- - The VLT project has made substantial additions and revisions to their web site.
A new VLTI Website has been added as of
27 April 1998.
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Last Updated 11 November 1998