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• First fringes in the H band with 3 telescopes of IOTA by means of an integrated optics beam combiner
(Monnier et al. 2004, Kraus et al. 2005)
• Nulling of 10 −4 achieved on the ALCATEL Space MAII bench by using an integrated optics beam combiner
developed under ESA contract.
• First formal demonstration of single mode guiding at 10 µm in the IODA project (Labadie et al. 2005)
• Creation and development of the Centre Jean-Marie Mariotti (JMMC) with partners. Consecutive creation
of the European interferometry Initiative (EII) coupling interferometry networks of the OPTICON EC I3.
• Development, Integration, Installation of the WIRCAM instrument to CFHT. It is now offered to the
CFH community.
14.5 Awards
• The 52-actuator magnetic mirror has won the Photon d’Argent award of the Vitrine de l’innovation (second
most innovative project) during the OPTO 2005 exhibition in September 2005
• Pierre Kern received the Cristal du CNRS in 2005 for the quality and scope of his personal contribution
to a number of R&D as well as large projects
• Fabien Malbet received the COMPAQ/SF2A price in 2004 for his pioneering contribution in long-baseline
near-infrared interferometry and its application to the study of young stars
14.6 Acronyms
• AMBER: near-infrared spectrograph for the VLTI
• ANR Agence nationale de la recherche
• ADONIS AO system installed on the ESO 3.6m telescope
• API Antarctic Planet Interferometer
• ARENA Antarctic Research, a European Network for Astronomy
• AT VLTI auxiliary telescopes
• CEA Atomic studies agency
• CHARA Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy Array
• CNAP Conseil National des Astronomes et Physiciens
• CNES Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales
• CRTBT Centre de recherche des très basses températures (CNRS)
• MDM: Micro Deformable Mirrors
• DRFMC (CEA) Département de Recherche Fondamentale de la Matière Condensée
• EC European Community
• EII European Interferometry Initiative
• FALCON Fiber-spectrograph with Adaptive optics on Large fields to Correct at Optical and Near-infrared wavelengths
• FLUOR Fiber-Linked Unit for Optical Recombination
• FP Framework Programme (of EC)
• GdR Groupement de recherche (CNRS)
• GeeO : Groupement d’Electromagnétisme Expérimental et d’Optoélectronique - Grenoble
• GENIE Ground-based European Nulling Interferometer Experiment
• GLAO Ground Layer Adaptive Optics
• GTO Guarantee time observing
• HRA High angular resolution
• HARPS High Accuracy Radial velocity Planetary Search
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