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2008: 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.

Astrophysical Observations and Results

• Milliarcsecond N-Band Observations of the Nova RS Ophiuchi: First Science with the Keck Interferometer Nuller
  R. K. Barry, W. C. Danchi, W. A. Traub, J. L. Sokoloski, J. P. Wisniewski, E. Serabyn, M. J. Kuchner, R. Akeson, E. Appleby, J. Bell, A. Booth, H. Brandenburg, M. Colavita, S. Crawford, M. Creech-Eakman, W. Dahl, C. Felizardo, J. Garcia, J. Gathright, M. A. Greenhouse, J. Herstein, E. Hovland, M. Hrynevych, C. Koresko, R. Ligon, B. Mennesson, R. Millan-Gabet, D. Morrison, D. Palmer, T. Panteleeva, S. Ragland, M. Shao, R. Smythe, K. Summers, M. Swain, K. Tsubota, C. Tyau, E. Wetherell, P. Wizinowich, J. Woillez, and G. Vasisht
  Astrophys. J. 77, 1253-1267 (2008)

• VLBA SiO observations of bright O-rich AGB stars
  W. D. Cotton, G. Perrin, and B. Lopez
  Astron. Astrophys. 477, 853-863 (2008).

• Resolving the ionized wind of the post-red supergiant IRC +10 420 with VLTI/AMBER
  W. J. de Wit, R. D. Oudmaijer, M. A. T. Groenewegen, M. G. Hoare, and F. Malbet
  Astron. Astrophys. 480, 149-155 (2008).

• Detection of an Inner Gaseous Component in a Herbig Be Star Accretion Disk: Near- and Mid-Infrared Spectrointerferometry and Radiative Transfer modeling of MWC 147
  S. Kraus, T. Preibisch, K. Ohnaka
  Astrophys. J. 676, 490-508 (2008).

• First result with AMBER+FINITO on the VLTI: the high-precision angular diameter of V3879 Sagittarii
  J.-B. Le Bouquin, B. Bauvir, P. Haguenauer, M. Schoeller, F. Rantakyrö, and S. Menardi
  Astron. Astrophys. 481, 553-557 (2008).

• The Inner Radius of T Tauri Disks Estimated from Near-Infrared Interferometry: The Importance of Scattered Light
  C. Pinte, F. Ménard, J.P. Berger, M. Benisty, F. Malbet
  Astrophys. J. 673, L63-L66 (2008).

• Masses, Luminosities, and Orbital Coplanarities of the mu Orionis Quadruple-Star System from Phases Differential Astrometry
  M. W. Muterspaugh, B. F. Lane, F. C. Fekel, M. Konacki, B. F. Burke, S. Kulkarni, M. M. Colavita, M. Shao, S. J. Wiktorowicz
  Astron. J. 135, 766-776 (2008).

• Optical Interferometric Observations of Theta 1 Orionis C from NPOI and Implications for the System Orbit
  J. Patience, R. T. Zavala, L. Prato, O. Franz, L. Wasserman, C. Tycner, D. J. Hutter, C. A. Hummel
  Astrophys. J. 674, L97-L100 (2008).

• The enigma of GCIRS 3. Constraining the properties of the mid-infrared reference star of the central parsec of the Milky Way with optical long-baseline interferometry
  J.-U. Pott, A. Eckart, A. Glindemann, R. Schödel, T. Viehmann, and M. Robberto
  Astron. Astrophys. 480, 115-131 (2008).

• The T Tauri star RY Tauri as a case study of the inner regions of circumstellar dust disks
  A. A. Schegerer, S. Wolf, Th. Ratzka, Ch. Leinert
  Astron. Astrophys. 478, 779-793 (2008).

• J, H, K spectro-interferometry of the Mira variable S Orionis
  M. Wittkowski, D.A. Boboltz, T. Driebe, J.-B. Le Bouquin, F. Millour, K. Ohnaka, M. Scholz
  Astron. Astrophys. 479, L21-L24 (2008).

Instrumentation and Techniques

• The point spread function in Lucky Imaging and variations in seeing on short timescales
  J.E. Baldwin, P.J. Warner, C.D. Mackay
  Astron. Astrophys. 480, 589-597 (2008).

• Laboratory Demonstration of an Infrared-to-Visible Up-Conversion Interferometer for Spatial Coherence Analysis
  S. Brustlein, L. Del Rio, A. Tonello, L. Delage, and F. Reynaud, H. Herrmann and W. Sohler
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 153903 (2008).

• De-biasing interferometric visibilities in VLTI-AMBER data of low SNR observations
  G. Li Causi, S. Antoniucci, and E. Tatulli
  Astron. Astrophys. 479, 598-595 (2008).

• Isopistonic angle for multi-aperture interferometers from isoplanatic angle
  T. Elhalkouj, A. Ziad, R. G. Petrov, M. Lazrek, Y. Elazhari, and Z. Benkhaldoun
  Astron. Astrophys. 477, 337-344 (2008).

• Interferential seeing monitor
  A. Habib, M. Sabil, Z. Benkhaldoun, and Y. El Azhari
  Astron. Astrophys. 482, 365-370 (2008).

• First results from a laboratory hypertelescope using single-mode fibers
  F. Patru, D. Mourard, J.-M. Clausse, L. Delage, F. Reynaud, M. Dubreuil, D. Bonneau, S. Bosio, Y. Bresson, Y. Hugues, O. Lardière, and A. Roussel
  Astron. Astrophys. 477, 345-352 (2008).

• "FADE, an instrument to measure the atmospheric coherence time
  A. Tokovinin, A. Kellerer, and V. Coudé Du Foresto
  Astron. Astrophys. 477, 671-680 (2008).

• Nighttime Optical Turbulence Vertical Structure above Dome C in Antarctica
  Hervé Trinquet, Abdelkrim Agabi, Jean Vernin, Max Azouit, Eric Aristidi, and Eric Fossat
  Pub. Astron. Soc. Pac. 120, 203-211 (2008).

• The Keck Aperture Masking Experiment: Multiwavelength Observations of Six Mira Variables
  H.C. Woodruff, P.G. Tuthill, J.D. Monnier, M.J. Ireland, T.R. Bedding, S. Lacour, W.C. Danchi, M. Scholz
  Astrophys. J. 673, 418-433 (2008).

• Taking the Measure of the Universe: Precision Astrometry with SIM PlanetQuest
  S.C. Unwin, M. Shao, A.M. Tanner, R.J. Allen, C.A. Beichman, D. Boboltz, J.H. Catanzarite, B.C. Chaboyer, D.R. Ciardi, S.J. Edberg, A.L. Fey, D.A. Fischer, C.R. Gelino, A.P. Gould, C. Grillmair, T.J. Henry, K.V. Johnston, K.J. Johnston, D.L. Jones, S.R. Kulkarni, N.M. Law, S.R. Majewski, V.V. Makarov, G.W. Marcy, D.L. Meier, R.P. Olling, X. Pan, R. J. Patterson, J. E. Pitesky, A. Quirrenbach, S. B. Shaklan, E.J. Shaya, L. E. Strigari, J. A. Tomsick, A.E. Wehrle, and G. Worthey
  Pub. Astron. Soc. Pac. 120, 38-88 (2008).

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