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Published June 27, 2006 | Version Published
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IOTA: recent science and technology

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  • 1. ROR icon University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • 2. ROR icon Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
  • 3. ROR icon CEA LETI
  • 4. ROR icon California Institute of Technology
  • 5. ROR icon University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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Abstract

We present a brief review of recent scientific and technical advances at the Infrared Optical Telescope Array (IOTA). IOTA is a long-baseline interferometer located atop Mount Hopkins, Arizona. Recent work has emphasized the use of the three-telescope interferometer completed in 2002. We report on results obtained on a range of scientific targets, including AGB stars, Herbig AeBe Stars, binary stars, and the recent outburst of the recurrent nova RS Oph. We report the completion of a new spectrometer which allows visibility measurements at several high spectral resolution channels simultaneously. Finally, it is our sad duty to report that IOTA will be closed this year.

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© 2006 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (for IOTA operation), NASA (for development of the third telescope and NASA NNG05G1180G), the National Science Foundation (AST-0138303, AST-0352723), and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL Awards 1236050 and 1248252). The IONIC3 instrument has been developed by LAOG and LETI in the context of the IONIC collaboration (LAOG, IMEP, LETI). The IONIC project is funded by the CNRS (France) and the CNES (France). This paper has made use of NASA's Astrophysics Data System Abstract Service.

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97149
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Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
NASA
NNG05G1180G
NSF
AST-0138303
NSF
AST-0352723
JPL
1236050
JPL
1248252
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES)

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Proceedings of SPIE
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6268