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2004: Refereed Papers in Stellar Interferometry

For ease of reference, I am now listing reports of astrophysical results in a separate catagory. I have divided other papers into catagories of theory, predictions, and instrumentation. Please contact me with suggested corrections.

Astrophysical Observations and Results

• VLTI near-IR interferometric observations of Vega-like stars: alpha PsA, beta Leo, beta Pic, epsilon Eri and tau Cet
  E. Di Folco, F. Thévenin, P. Kervella, A. Domiciano de Souza, V. Coudé du Foresto, D. Ségransan and P. Morel
  Astron. Astrophys. 426, 601-617 (2004). (VLTI)

• The angular sizes of dwarf stars and subgiants - Surface brightness relations calibrated by interferometry
  P. Kervella, F. Thévenin, E. Di Folco and D. Ségransan
  Astron. Astrophys. 426, 297-307 (2004). (VLTI)

• The diameter and evolutionary state of Procyon A
  P. Kervella, F. Thévenin, P. Morel, G. Berthomieu, P. Bordé and J. Provost
  Astron. Astrophys. 413, 251-256 (2004). (VLTI)

• Asymmetric Surface Brightness Distribution of Altair Observed with the Navy Prototype Optical Interferometer
  N. Ohishi, T.E. Nordgren, D.J. Hutter
  Astrophys. J. 612, 463-471 (2004) (NPOI)

• First observations with an H-band integrated optics beam combiner at the VLTI
  J. B. Le Bouquin, K. Rousselet-Perraut, P. Kern, F. Malbet, P. Haguenauer, P. Kervella, I. Schanen, J.P. Berger, A. Delboulbé, B. Arezki, and M. Schöller
  Astron. Astrophys. 424, 719 (2004). (VLTI)

• The circumstellar envelope of Zeta Tau through optical interferometry
  Christopher Tycner, Arsen R. Hajian, J. T. Armstrong, J. A. Benson, G. C. Gilbreath, D. J. Hutter, John B. Lester, D. Mozurkewich, and T. A. Pauls
  Astron. J. 127, 1194-1203 (2004). (NPOI)

• Interferometric observations of the supergiant stars alpha Orionis and alpha Herculis with FLUOR at IOTA
  G. Perrin, S. T. Ridgway, V. Coudé du Foresto, B. Mennesson, W. A. Traub and M. G. Lacasse
  Astron. Astrophys. 418, 675-685 (2004). (IOTA-FLUOR)

• Tests of stellar model atmospheres by optical interferometry: VLTI/VINCI limb-darkening measurements of the M4 giant psi Phe
  M. Wittkowski, J.P. Aufdenberg and P. Kervella
  Astron. Astrophys. 413, 711-723 (2004). (VLTI)

• Are dust shell models well-suited to explain interferometric data of late-type stars in the near-infrared?
  P. Schuller, P. Salomé, G. Perrin, B. Mennesson, G. Niccolini, P. de Laverny, S.T. Ridgway, V. Coudé du Foresto and W.A. Traub
  Astron. Astrophys. 418, 151-162 (2004) (IOTA-FLUOR)

• High-resolution imaging of dust shells using Keck aperture masking and the IOTA Interferometer
  J.D. Monnier, R. Millan-Gabet, P.G. Tuthill, W.A. Traub, N.P. Carleton, V. Coude du Foresto, W.C. Danchi, M.G. Lacasse, S. Morel, G. Perrin , I.L. Porro, F.P. Schloerb, C.H. Townes.
  Astrophys. J., 605, 436-461 (2004). (Keck/IOTA)
  OIFITS Data (1.9MB gzipped tar file)

• Cepheid distances from infrared long-baseline interferometry I: VINCI/VLTI observations of seven Galactic Cepheids
  P. Kervella, N. Nardetto, D. Bersier, D. Mourard and V. Coudé du Foresto
  Astron. Astrophys. 416, 941-953 (2004). (VLTI)

• Cepheid distances from infrared long-baseline interferometry II. Calibration of the period-radius and period-luminosity relations
  P. Kervella, D. Bersier, D. Mourard, N. Nardetto and V. Coudé du Foresto
  Astron. Astrophys. 423, 327-333 (2004). (VLTI)

• Cepheid distances from infrared long-baseline interferometry III. Calibration of the surface brightness-color relations
  P. Kervella, D. Bersier, D. Mourard, N. Nardetto, P. Fouqué, and V. Coudé du Foresto
  Astron. Astrophys. 428, 587-593 (2004). (VLTI)

• The angular size of the Cepheid L Carinae: a comparison of the interferometric and surface brightness techniques
  P. Kervella, P. Fouqué, J. Storm, W.P. Gieren, D. Bersier, D. Mourard, N. Nardetto, and V. Coudé du Foresto
  Astrophys. J. 604, L113-L116 (2004) (VLTI)

• VLBA observations of SiO masers towards Mira variable stars
  W. D. Cotton, B. Mennesson, P. J. Diamond, G. Perrin, V. Coudé du Foresto, G. Chagnon, H. J. van Langevelde, S. Ridgway, R. Waters, W. Vlemmings, S. Morel, W. Traub, N. Carleton and M. Lacasse
  Astron. Astrophys. 414, 275-288 (2004). (VLBA/IOTA-FLUOR)

• Unveiling Mira stars behind the molecules - Confirmation of the molecular layer model with narrow band near-infrared interferometry
  G. Perrin, S. T. Ridgway, B. Mennesson, W. D. Cotton, J. Woillez, T. Verhoelst, P. Schuller, V. Coudé du Foresto, W. A. Traub, R. Millan-Gabet and M. G. Lacasse
  Astron. Astrophys. 426, 279-296 (2004). (IOTA-FLUOR)

• Interferometric observations of the Mira star o Ceti with the VLTI/VINCI instrument in the near-infrared
  H.C. Woodruff, M. Eberhardt, T. Driebe, K.-H. Hofmann, K. Ohnaka, A. Richichi, D. Schertl, M. Schoeller, M. Scholz, G. Weigelt, M. Wittkowski, and P.R. Wood
  Astron. Astrophys. 421, 703-714 (2004). (VLTI)

• Resolved Inner Disks around Herbig Ae/Be Stars
  J.A. Eisner, B.F. Lane, L.A. Hillenbrand, R.L. Akeson, and A.I. Sargent
  Astrophys. J. 613, 1049-1071 (2004) (PTI)

• Mid-infrared sizes of circumstellar disks around Herbig Ae/Be stars measured with MIDI on the VLTI
  Ch. Leinert, R. van Boekel, L. B. F. M. Waters, O. Chesneau, F. Malbet, R. Köhler, W. Jaffe, Th. Ratzka, A. Dutrey, Th. Preibisch, U. Graser, E. Bakker, G. Chagnon, W. D. Cotton, C. Dominik, C. P. Dullemond, A. W. Glazenborg-Kluttig, A. Glindemann, Th. Henning, K.-H. Hofmann, J. de Jong, R. Lenzen, S. Ligori, B. Lopez, J. Meisner, S. Morel, F. Paresce, J.-W. Pel, I. Percheron, G. Perrin, F. Przygodda, A. Richichi, M. Schöller, P. Schuller, B. Stecklum, M. E. van den Ancker, O. von der Lühe and G. Weigelt
  Astron. Astrophys. 423, 537-548(2004). (VLTI)

• The building blocks of planets within the "terrestrial" region of protoplanetary disks
  R. van Boekel, M. Min, Ch. Leinert, L.B.F.M. Waters, A. Richichi, O. Chesneau, C. Dominik, W. Jaffe, A. Dutrey, U. Graser, Th. Henning, J. de Jong, R. Koehler, A. de Koter, B. Lopez, F. Malbet, S. Morel, F. Paresce, G. Perrin, Th. Preibisch, F. Przygodda, M. Schoeller, and M. Wittkowski
  Nature 432, 479-482 (2004). (VLTI)

• The visual orbits of the spectroscopic binaries HD6118 and HD 27483 from the Palomar Testbed Interferometer
  M. Konacki and B. Lane
  Astrophys. J. 610, 443-455 (2004). (PTI)

• Differential astrometry of subarcsecond scale binaries at the Palomar Testbed Interferometer
  B.F. Lane and M.W. Muterspaugh
  Astrophys. J. 601, 1129-1135 (2004). (PTI)

• First results with the IOTA3 imaging interferometer: the spectroscopic binaries lambda Virginis and WR 140
  J. D. Monnier, W. A. Traub, F. P. Schloerb, R. Millan-Gabet, J.-P. Berger, E. Pedretti, N. P. Carleton, S. Kraus, M. G. Lacasse, M. Brewer, S. Ragland, A. Ahearn, C. Coldwell, P. Haguenauer, P. Kern, P. Labeye, L. Lagny, F. Malbet, D. Malin, P. Maymounkov, S. Morel, C. Papaliolios, K. Perraut, M. Pearlman, I. L. Porro, I. Schanen, K. Souccar, G. Torres, and G. Wallace
  Astrophys. J. 602, L57-L60 (2004). (IOTA)
  OIFITS Data (95 KB gzipped tar file)

• A distance of 133-137 parsecs to the Pleiades star cluster
  X. Pan, M. Shao, and S.R. Kulkarni
  Nature 427, 326-328 (2004). (PTI/MarkIII)

• A purely geometric distance to the binary star Atlas, a member of the Pleiades
  N. Zwahlen, P. North, Y. Debernardi, L. Eyer, F. Galland, M.A.T. Groenewegen, C.A. Hummel,
  Astron. Astrophys. 425, L45-L48 (2004). (NPOI)

• VLTI/VINCI observations of the nucleus of NGC 1068 using the adaptive optics system MACAO
  M. Wittkowski, P. Kervella, R. Arsenault, F. Paresce, T. Beckert and G. Weigelt
  Astron. Astrophys. 418, L39-L42 (2004). (VLTI)

• The central dusty torus in the active nucleus of NGC 1068
  W. Jaffe, K. Meisenheimer, H.J.A. Röttgering, Ch. Leinert, A. Richichi, O. Chesneau, D. Fraix-Burnet, A. Glazenborg-Kluttig, G-L Granato, U. Graser, B. Heijligers, R. Köhler, F. Malbet, G.K. Miley, F. Paresce, J-W Pel, G. Perrin, F. Przygodda, M. Schoeller, H. Sol, L.B.F.M. Waters, G. Weigelt, J. Woillez, P.T. De Zeeuw
  Nature 429, 47-49 (2004). (VLTI)

Astrophysics: Theory and Predictions

• Stellar differential rotation and inclination angle from spectro-interferometry
  A. Domiciano de Souza, J. Zorec, S. Jankov, F. Vakili, L. Abe and E. Janot-Pacheco
  Astron. Astrophys. 418, 781-794 (2004)

• On the observability of geometric pulsation of M-type Mira variables
  M.J. Ireland, M. Scholz, and P.R. Wood
  Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 352, 318-324 (2004).

• Pulsation of M-type Mira variables with moderately different mass: search for observable mass effects
  M.J. Ireland, M. Scholz, P.G. Tuthill, and P.R. Wood
  Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 355, 444-450 (2004).

• Self consistent modelling of the projection factor for interferometric distance determination
  N. Nardetto, A. Fokin, D. Mourard, Ph. Mathias, P. Kervella, and D. Bersier
  Astron. Astrophys. 428, 131-137 (2004).

• Warm water vapor envelope in the supergiants alpha Ori and alpha Her and its effects on the apparent size from the near-infrared to the mid-infrared
  K. Ohnaka
  Astron. Astrophys. 421, 1149-1158 (2004).

• Warm water vapor envelope in Mira variables and its effects on the apparent size from the near-infrared to the mid-infrared
  K. Ohnaka
  Astron. Astrophys. 424, 1011-1024 (2004).

• Stellar activity and magnetism studied by optical interferometry
  K. Rousselet-Perraut, C. Stehlé, T. Lanz, J. B. Le Bouquin, T. Boudoyen, M. Kilbinger, O. Kochukhov and S. Jankov
  Astron. Astrophys. 422, 193-203 (2004)

• Mira's apparent size variations due to a surrounding semiopaque H2O layer
  J. Weiner
  Astrophys. J. 611, L37-L40 (2004).

Instrumentation

• Low light level CCDs and visibility parameter estimation
  A. G. Basden, C. A. Haniff
  Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 347, 1187-1197 (2004).

• Longitudinal Dispersion Compensation for a Long Baseline Optical Interferometer (Dissertation Summary)
  D.H. Berger
  Pub. Astron. Soc. Pac. 116, 390 (2004)

• Effects of Atmospheric Water Vapor on Infrared Interferometry
  M.M. Colavita, M.R. Swain, R.L. Akeson, C.D. Koresko, and R.J. Hill
  Pub. Astron. Soc. Pac. 116, 876-885 (2004)

• Optical Interferometric Polarimetry. II. Theory
  N.M. Elias II
  Astrophys. J. 611, 1175-1199 (2004).

• Data reduction methods for single-mode optical interferometry - Application to the VLTI two-telescopes beam combiner VINCI
  P. Kervella, D. Ségransan and V. Coudé du Foresto
  Astron. Astrophys. 425, 1161-1174 (2004).

• Systematic Errors in Nulling Interferometers
  O. P. Lay
  Appl. Opt. 43, 6100-6123 (2004).

• Tests with a Carlina-type hypertelescope prototype: I. Demonstration of star tracking and fringe acquisition with a balloon-suspended focal camera
  H. Le Coroller, J. Dejonghe, C. Arpesella, D. Vernet and A. Labeyrie
  Astron. Astrophys. 426, 721-728 (2004).

• Fizeau interferometer for global astrometry in space
  D. Loreggia, D. Gardiol, M. Gai, M.G. Lattanzi, D. Busonero
  Appl. Opt. 43, 721-728 (2004).

• Global wavefront sensing for interferometers and mosaic telescopes: the dispersed speckles principle
  Frantz Martinache
  J. Opt. A: Pure Appl. Opt. 6, 216-220 (2004).

• The PICNIC Interferometry Camera at IOTA
  E. Pedretti, R. Millan-Gabet, J. D. Monnier, W. A. Traub, N. P. Carleton, J.-P. Berger, M. G. Lacasse, F. P. Schloerb, and M. K. Brewer
  Pub. Astron. Soc. Pac. 116, 377-389 (2004)

• Single-mode versus multimode interferometry: A performance study
  E. Tatulli, P. Mège and A. Chelli
  Astron. Astrophys. 418, 1179-1186 (2004).

• Interferometric Remapped Array Nulling
  F. Vakili, E. Aristidi, L. Abe and B. Lopez
  Astron. Astrophys. 421, 147-156 (2004)

• Comparison of measurement of the outer scale of turbulence by three different techniques
  A. Ziad, M. Schoeck, G.A. Chanan, M. Troy, R. Dekany, B.F. Lane, J. Borgnino, and F. Martin
  Appl. Opt. 43, 2316-2324 (2004).

Related Papers

• Exceptional astronomical seeing conditions above Dome C in Antarctica
  J.S. Lawrence, M.C.B. Ashley, A. Tokovinin, and T. Travouillon
  Nature 431, 278-281 (2004).

• A Gas+Dust Model of the Peculiar Envelope of HD 62623 Based on Interferometric Observations
  Ph. Stee, J. Bittar, and B. Lopez
  Astrophys. J. 602, 978-984 (2004).

• Adaptive Optics Nulling Interferometric Constraints on the Mid-Infrared Exozodiacal Dust Emission around Vega
  W.M. Liu, P.M. Hinz et al.
  Astrophys. J. 610, L125-L128 (2004).

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