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2005: Refereed Papers in Stellar Interferometry

The papers are divided into catagories of observations, theory & predictions, instrumentation, and related papers. Please contact me with suggested corrections. Authors are encouraged to announce new papers and preprints through the OLBIN Email Forum.

Reviews

• Astrometric Methods and Instrumentation to Identify and Characterize Extrasolar Planets: A Review
  A. Sozzetti
  Pub. Astron. Soc. Pac. 117, 1021-1048 (2005).

Astrophysical Observations and Results

This listing is arranged by topic. The ordering given here is derived from Allen's Astrophysical Quantities, Fourth Edition, Chapter 16. This ordering will be applied to the listing of 2004 papers as well.

Rapidly Rotating Stars

• Gravitational-darkening of Altair from interferometry
  A. Domiciano de Souza, P. Kervella, S. Jankov, F. Vakili, N. Ohishi, T. E. Nordgren and L. Abe
  Astron. Astrophys. 442, 567-578 (2005). (VLTI-VINCI)

• First Results from the CHARA Array. I. An Interferometric and Spectroscopic Study of the Fast Rotator Leonis (Regulus)
  H.A. McAlister, T.A. ten Brummelaar, D.R. Gies, W. Huang, W.G. Bagnuolo, Jr., M.A. Shure, J. Sturmann, L. Sturmann, N.H. Turner, S.F. Taylor, D.H. Berger, E.K. Baines, E. Grundstrom, C. Ogden, S.T. Ridgway, and G. van Belle
  Astrophys. J. 628, 439-452 (2005). (CHARA)

• On the limb darkening, spectral energy distribution, and temperature structure of Procyon
  J. P. Aufdenberg, H.-G. Ludwig, and P. Kervella
  Astrophys. J. 633, 424-439 (2005). (VLTI-VINCI)

• VLTI/VINCI diameter constraints on the evolutionary status of delta Eri, xi Hya, eta Boo
  F. Thévenin, P. Kervella, B. Pichon, P. Morel, E. Di Folco and Y. Lebreton
  Astron. Astrophys. 436, 253-262 (2005). (VLTI-VINCI)

• Aldebaran's angular diameter: How well do we know it?
  A. Richichi and V. Roccatagliata
  Astron. Astrophys. 433, 305-312 (2005). (VLTI-VINCI)

• Is Arcturus a well-understood K giant? Test of model atmospheres and potential companion detection by near-infrared interferometry
  T. Verhoelst, P. J. Bordé, G. Perrin, L. Decin, K. Eriksson, S. T. Ridgway, P. A. Schuller, W. A. Traub, R. Millan-Gabet, M. G. Lacasse and C. Waelkens
  Astron. Astrophys. 435, 289-301 (2005). (IOTA-FLUOR)

• The projection factor of Delta Cephei: a calibration of the Baade-Wesselink method using the CHARA Array
  A. Mérand, P. Kervella, V. Coudé du Foresto, S.T. Ridgway, J.P. Aufdenberg, T.A. ten Brummelaar, D.H. Berger, J. Sturmann, L. Sturmann, N.H. Turner and H.A. McAlister
  Astron. Astrophys. 438, L9-L12 (2005). (CHARA)

• Interferometric Observations of V838 Monocerotis
  B. F. Lane, A. Retter, R. R. Thompson, and J. A. Eisner
  Astrophys. J. 622, L137-L140 (2005). (PTI)

• The Dusty AGB Star RS CrB: First Mid-Infrared Interferometric Observations with the Keck Telescopes
  B. Mennesson, C. Koresko, M. J. Creech-Eakman, E. Serabyn, M. M. Colavita, R. Akeson, E. Appleby, J. Bell, A. Booth, S. Crawford, W. Dahl, J. Fanson, C. Felizardo, J. Garcia, J. Gathright, J. Herstein, E. Hovland, M. Hrynevych, E. Johansson, D. Le Mignant, R. Ligon, R. Millan-Gabet, J. Moore, C. Neyman, D. Palmer, T. Panteleeva, C. Paine, S. Ragland, L. Reder, A. Rudeen, T. Saloga, M. Shao, R. Smythe, K. Summers, M. Swain, K. Tsubota, C. Tyau, G. Vasisht, P. Wizinowich, and J. Woillez
  Astrophys. J. 634, L169-L172 (2005). (Keck)

• Dust scattering in the Miras R Car and RR Sco resolved by optical interferometric polarimetry
  M.J. Ireland, P.G. Tuthill, J. Davis, and W. Tango
  Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 361, 337-344 (2005). (SUSI)

• Joint VLBA/VLTI Observations of the Mira Variable S Orionis
  D.A. Boboltz and M. Wittkowski
  Astrophys. J. 618, 953-961 (2005). (VLBA/VLTI-VINCI)

• Diameters of Mira Stars Measured Simultaneously in the J, H, and K Near-Infrared Bands
  R. Millan-Gabet, E. Pedretti, J. D. Monnier, F. P. Schloerb, W. A. Traub, N. P. Carleton, M. G. Lacasse, and D. Segransan
  Astrophys. J. 620, 961-969 (2005). (IOTA)

• Mid-infrared interferometry of the Mira variable RR Sco with the VLTI MIDI instrument
  K. Ohnaka, J. Bergeat, T. Driebe, U. Graser, K.-H. Hofmann, R. Köhler, Ch. Leinert, B. Lopez, F. Malbet, S. Morel, F. Paresce, G. Perrin, Th. Preibisch, A. Richichi, D. Schertl, M. Schöller, H. Sol, G. Weigelt and M. Wittkowski
  Astron. Astrophys. 429, 1057-1067 (2005). (VLTI-MIDI)

• The K-band intensity profile of R Leonis probed by VLTI/VINCI
  D. Fedele, M. Wittkowski, F. Paresce, M. Scholz, P. R. Wood and S. Ciroi
  Astron. Astrophys. 431, 1019-1026 (2005). (VLTI-VINCI)

• Study of molecular layers in the atmosphere of the supergiant star mu Cep by interferometry in the K band
  G. Perrin, S. T. Ridgway, T. Verhoelst, P. A. Schuller, V. Coudé du Foresto, W. A. Traub, R. Millan-Gabet and M. G. Lacasse
  Astron. Astrophys. 436, 317-324 (2005). (IOTA-FLUOR)

• The mid-ir spatially resolved environment of OH26.5+0.6 at maximum luminosity
  O. Chesneau, T. Verhoelst, B. Lopez, L.B.F.M. Waters, C. Leinert, W.J. Jaffe, R. Köhler, A. de Kotter, and C. Dijkstra.
  Astron. Astrophys. 435, 563-574 (2005). (VLTI-MIDI)

• Keck Interferometer Observations of Classical and Weak-line T Tauri Stars
  R. L. Akeson, A. F. Boden, J. D. Monnier, R. Millan-Gabet, C. Beichman, J. Beletic, N. Calvet, L. Hartmann, L. Hillenbrand, C. Koresko, A. Sargent, and A. Tannirkulam
  Astrophys. J. 635, 1173-1181 (2005). (Keck)

• Observations and Modeling of the Inner Disk Region of T Tauri Stars
  R. L. Akeson, C. H. Walker, K. Wood, J. A. Eisner, E. Scire, B. Penprase, D. R. Ciardi, G. T. van Belle, B. Whitney, and J. E. Bjorkman
  Astrophys. J. 622, 440-450 (2005). (PTI)

• Observations of T Tauri Disks at Sub-AU Radii: Implications for Magnetospheric Accretion and Planet Formation
  J. A. Eisner, L. A. Hillenbrand, R. J. White, R. L. Akeson, and A. I. Sargent
  Astrophys. J. 623, 952-966 (2005). (Keck)

• New insights on the AU-scale circumstellar structure of FU Orionis
  F. Malbet, R. Lachaume, J.-P. Berger, M.M. Colavita, E. Di Folco, J.A. Eisner, B.F. Lane, R. Millan-Gabet, D. Ségransan and W.A. Traub
  Astron. Astrophys. 437, 627-636 (2005). (PTI/IOTA/VLTI)

• The sub-arcsecond dusty environment of Eta Carinae
  O. Chesneau, M. Min, T. Herbst, L. B. F. M. Waters, D. J. Hillier, Ch. Leinert, A. de Koter, I. Pascucci, W. Jaffe, R. Köhler, C. Alvarez, R. van Boekel, W. Brandner, U. Graser, A. M. Lagrange, R. Lenzen, S. Morel and M. Schöller
  Astron. Astrophys. 435, 1043-1061 (2005) (VLTI-MIDI)

• The Near-Infrared Size-Luminosity Relations for Herbig Ae/Be Disks
  J. D. Monnier, R. Millan-Gabet, R. Billmeier, R. L. Akeson, D. Wallace, J.-P. Berger, N. Calvet, P. D'Alessio, W. C. Danchi, L. Hartmann, L. A. Hillenbrand, M. Kuchner, J. Rajagopal, W. A. Traub, P. G. Tuthill, A. Boden, A. Booth, M. Colavita, J. Gathright, M. Hrynevych, D. Le Mignant, R. Ligon, C. Neyman, M. Swain, R. Thompson, G. Vasisht, P. Wizinowich, C. Beichman, J. Beletic, M. Creech-Eakman, C. Koresko, A. Sargent, M. Shao, and G. van Belle
  Astrophys. J. 624, 832-840 (2005). (Keck)

• First VLTI/MIDI observations of a Be star: Alpha Arae
  O. Chesneau, A. Meilland, T. Rivinius, Ph. Stee, S. Jankov, A. Domiciano de Souza, U. Graser, T. Herbst, E. Janot-Pacheco, R. Koehler, C. Leinert, S. Morel, F. Paresce, A. Richichi and S. Robbe-Dubois
  Astron. Astrophys. 435, 275-287 (2005). (VLTI-MIDI)

• Properties of the H-emitting Circumstellar Regions of Be Stars
  Christopher Tycner, John B. Lester, Arsen R. Hajian, J. T. Armstrong, J. A. Benson, G. C. Gilbreath, D. J. Hutter, T. A. Pauls, and N. M. White
  Astrophys. J. 624, 359-371 (2005). (NPOI)

• VINCI-VLTI measurements of HR 4049: The physical size of the circumbinary envelope
  S. Antoniucci, F. Paresce and M. Wittkowski
  Astron. Astrophys. 429, L1-L4 (2005). (VLTI-VINCI)

• Dynamical Masses for Low-Mass PreMain-Sequence Stars: A Preliminary Physical Orbit for HD 98800 B
  A.F. Boden, A.I. Sargent, R.L. Akeson, J.M. Carpenter, G. Torres, D.W. Latham, D.R. Soderblom, E. Nelan, O.G. Franz, and L.H. Wasserman
  Astrophys J. 635, 442-451, (2005). (Keck-I)

• Testing stellar models with an improved physical orbit for 12 Bootis
  A.F. Boden, G. Torres, and C.A. Hummel
  Astrophys J. 627, 464-476, (2005). (PTI/NPOI)

• Orbital parameters, masses and distance to beta centauri determined with the Sydney University Stellar Interferometer and high resolution spectroscopy
  J. Davis, A. Mendez, E.B. Seneta, W.J. Tango, A.J. Booth, J.W. O'Byrne, E.D. Thorvaldson, M. Ausseloos, C. Aerts, and K. Uytterhoeven
  Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 356, 1362-1370 (2005). (SUSI)

• Infrared imaging of Capella with the IOTA closure phase interferometer
  S. Kraus, F. P. Schloerb, W. A. Traub, N. P. Carleton, M. Lacasse, M. Pearlman, J. D. Monnier, R. Millan-Gabet, J.-P. Berger, P. Haguenauer, K. Perraut, P. Kern, F. Malbet, and P. Labeye
  Astron. J. 130, 246-255 (2005). (IOTA-IONIC)

• PHASES high-precision differential astrometry of delta Equulei
  Matthew W. Muterspaugh, Benjamin F. Lane, Maciej Konacki, Bernard F. Burke, M. M. Colavita, S. R. Kulkarni, and M. Shao
  Astron. J. 130, 2866-2875 (2005). (PTI)

• Lifting the iron curtain: toward an understanding of the iron stars XX Oph and AS 325
  R.J. Cool, S.B. Howell, M. Peña, A.J. Adamson, R.R. Thompson
  Pub. Astron. Soc. Pac. 117, 462-475 (2005). (PTI)

• Calibration observations of Fomalhaut with the VLTI
  J. Davis, A. Richichi, P. Ballester, Ph. Gitton, A. Glindemann, S. Morel, M. Schoeller, M. Wittkowski, F. Paresce
  Astronomische Nachrichten 326, 25-30 (2005). (VLTI-VINCI)

• First results from the ESO VLTI calibrators program
  A. Richichi and I. Percheron
  Astron. Astrophys. 434, 1201-1209 (2005). (VLTI-VINCI)

Astrophysics: Theory and Predictions

• Predicting accurate stellar angular diameters by the near-infrared surface brightness technique
  G. P. Di Benedetto
  Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 357, 174-190 (2005).

• Accuracy and Covariance Analysis of Global Astrometry with the Space Interferometry Mission
  V.V. Makarov and M. Milman
  Pub. Astron. Soc. Pac. 117, 757-771 (2005).

• Flaring and self-shadowed disks around Herbig Ae stars: simulations for 10 micron interferometers
  R. van Boekel, C. P. Dullemond, and C. Dominik
  Astron. Astrophys. 441, 563-571 (2005).

Instrumentation

• Improvements for group delay fringe tracking
  A.G Basden and D.F Buscher
  Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 357, 656-668 (2005).

• Sensitivity of a "dispersed-speckles" piston sensor for multi-aperture interferometers and hypertelescopes
  V. Borkowski, A. Labeyrie, F. Martinache, and D. Peterson
  Astron. Astrophys. 429, 747-753 (2005).

• First Results from the CHARA Array. II. A Description of the Instrument
  T.A. ten Brummelaar, H.A. McAlister, S.T. Ridgway, W.G. Bagnuolo, Jr., N.H. Turner, L. Sturmann, J. Sturmann, D.H. Berger, C.E. Ogden, R. Cadman, W.I. Hartkopf, C.H. Hopper, and M.A. Shure
  Astrophys J. 628, 453-465, (2005).

• Reconstruction of aperture-synthesis images from LBT LINC-NIRVANA data using the Richardson-Lucy and space-variant Building Block method
  K.-H. Hofmann, T. Driebe, M. Heininger, D. Schertl and G. Weigelt
  Astron. Astrophys. 444, 983-993 (2005).

• High resolution imaging with Fresnel interferometric arrays: suitability for exoplanet detection
  L. Koechlin, D. Serre and P. Duchon
  Astron. Astrophys. 443, 709-720 (2005).

• Characterization of fluoride fibers for the Optical Hawaiian Array for Nanoradian Astronomy project
  T. Kotani, G. Perrin, S. Vergnole, J. Woillez, J. Guerin
  Appl. Opt. 44, 5029-5035 (2005).

• Imaging properties of rotating nulling interferometers
  O.P. Lay
  Appl. Opt. 44, 5859-5871 (2005).

• Atmospheric Refraction Path Integrals in Ground-Based Interferometry
  R. J. Mathar
  Baltic Astronomy 14 (2) 277-298, (2005).

• Use of subwavelength gratings in TIR incidence as achromatic phase shifters
  D. Mawet, C. Lenaerts, P. Riaud, J. Surdej, S. Habraken, and D. Vandormael
  Opt. Express 13, 8686-8692 (2005).

• Reconstruction method for weak-phase optical interferometry
  S.C. Meimon, L.M. Mugnier, and G. Le Besnerais
  Opt. Lett. 30, 1809-1811 (2005).

• Convex approximation to the likelihood criterion for aperture synthesis imaging
  S. Meimon, L.M. Mugnier, G. Le Besnerais
  J. Opt. Soc. Am. A, 22, 2348-2356 (2005).

• Accurately computing the optical pathlength difference for a Michelson interferometer with minimal knowledge of the source spectrum
  M.H. Milman
  J. Opt. Soc. Am. A, 22, 2774-2785 (2005).

• Michelson wide-field stellar interferometry: principles and experimental verification
  I. Montilla, S. F. Pereira, J. J. M. Braat
  Appl. Opt. 44, 328-336 (2005).

• Combination of nulling interferometer and modified pupil for observations of exo-planets
  J. Nishikawa, T. Kotani, N. Murakami, N. Baba, Y. Itoh and M. Tamura
  Astron. Astrophys. 435, 379-384 (2005).

• Data Exchange Standard for Optical (Visible/IR) Interferometry
  T.A. Pauls, J.S. Young, W.D. Cotton, and J.D. Monnier
  Pub. Astron. Soc. Pac. 117, 1255-1262 (2005).

• Robust determination of optical path difference: fringe tracking at the Infrared Optical Telescope Array interferometer
  E. Pedretti, W.A. Traub, J.D. Monnier, R. Millan-Gabet, N.P. Carleton, F.P. Schloerb, M.K. Brewer, J.-P. Berger, M.G. Lacasse, S. Ragland
  Appl. Opt. 44, 5173-5179 (2005).

• Squared visibility estimator. Calibrating biases to reach very high dynamic range
  G. Perrin, S. T. Ridgway
  Astrophys. J. 626 1138 (2005).

• Fiber optic interferometry: statistics of visibility and closure phase
  Tatulli and A. Chelli
  J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 22, 1577-1588 (2005).

• The effect of wavefront corrugations on fringe motion in an astronomical interferometer with spatial filters
  R. Tubbs
  Appl. Opt. 44, 6253-6257 (2005).

• Establishing Visible Interferometer System Responses: Resolved and Unresolved Calibrators
  G.T. van Belle and G. van Belle
  Pub. Astron. Soc. Pac. 117, 1263-1270 (2005).

• Adaptive DFT-based interferometer fringe tracking
  E. Wilson, E. Pedretti, J. Bregman, R.W. Mah, and W.A. Traub
  Journal on Applied Signal Processing 15, 2559-2572 (2005).

Related Papers

• Imaging through turbulence with a quadrature-phase optical interferometer
  B. Kern, P.E. Dimotakis, C. Martin, D.B. Lang, R.N. Thessin
  Appl. Opt. 44, 7424-7438 (2005)

• A catalog of bright calibrator stars for 200-m baseline near-infrared stellar interferometry
  A. Mérand, P. Bordé and V. Coudé du Foresto
  Astron. Astrophys. 433, 1155-1162 (2005).

• Erratum: "The Near-Infrared Size-Luminosity Relations for Herbig Ae/Be Disks"
  J.D. Monnier , R. Millan-Gabet , R. Billmeier , R.L. Akeson , D. Wallace , J.-P. Berger , N. Calvet , P. D'Alessio , W.C. Danchi , L. Hartmann , L.A. Hillenbrand , M. Kuchner , J. Rajagopal , W.A. Traub , P.G. Tuthill , A. Boden , A. Booth , M. Colavita , J. Gathright , M. Hrynevych , D. Le Mignant , R. Ligon , C. Neyman , M. Swain , R. Thompson , G. Vasisht , P. Wizinowich , C. Beichman , J. Beletic , M. Creech-Eakman , C. Koresko , A. Sargent , M. Shao , and G. van Belle
  Astrophys. J. 632 689, (2005)
  [Correction to received date of paper]

• CHARM2: An updated Catalog of High Angular Resolution Measurements
  A. Richichi, I. Percheron and M. Khristoforova
  Astron. Astrophys 431, 773-777 (2005).

• Multiwavelength Diffraction-limited Imaging of the Evolved Carbon Star IRC +10216. II
  P. G. Tuthill, J. D. Monnier, and W. C. Danchi
  Astrophys. J. 624, 352-358 (2005).

33 astrophysical results papers, of which 14 VLTI, 5 PTI, 5 Keck, 5 IOTA, 2 CHARA, and 2 SUSI. Some double-counting is involved for papers that used more than one interferometer for their results.

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