MIDI Publications

A list of publications concerning the MIDI project follows below in roughly reverse chronological order. A full ADS query is attempted here, and a search in SPIE's SPIN database done here. You may also query the ESO Telescope Bibliography or look into OLBIN. Broadband google results are here, scopus results here, and arXiv preprints here. Related publications by ESO staff members are here.


Astronomy and Astrophysics 44x (2006)


Section 11.2 and 11.5 in Antoine Mérand's PhD
thesis, entitled Étude à haute résolution spatiale des Céphéides, L'Université Denis Diderot - Paris VII, December 2005.


Astronomy and Astrophysics


arXiv preprint


Mem S. A. It. Suppl. 6 (2005)


Conference The Nature and Evolution of Disks around Hot Stars, ASP Conference Series Vol. 337:
AG 2005 Cologne, Splinter Meeting E NIR/Optical Interferometry, Astron. Nachr. 326 (7):

arXiv preprint


Thorsten Ratzka's PhD thesis, entitled High Spatial Resolution Observations of Young Stellar Binaries, submitted to the Faculties of the Natural Sciences and Mathematics of the University Heidelberg in June 2005.

Tijl Verhoelst's PhD thesis, entitled Evolved stars: a combined view from interferometry and spectroscopy, Faculty of Science Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 2005.


Conference The Fate of the Most Massive Stars, ASP Conference Series Vol. 332:
ESO's The Messenger 119, Mar 2005:

Astronomy and Astrophysics 435 (2005)


arXiv preprint


arXiv preprints


Astronomy and Astrophysics 429 (2005) 1057-1068:


The MIDI section of the Annual Report 2004 of the MPIA, MIDI - the Interferometer at the VLT, pp 87-88.

ESO annual report 2004:

Leiden Observatory annual report 2004: Astronomical Institute Anton Pannekoek annual report 2004:

Nature 432 (2004):


Proc 13th Cool Stars Workshop, Hamburg, 5-9 July 2004,

  • T Driebe, K Ohnaka, G Weigelt,
    Mid-infrared interferometry of the Mira Variable RR Sco with the VLTI MIDI instrument, (full-text)


    ESO press release 27/04 Young Stars Poised for Production of Rocky Planets 24 Nov 2004

    MPIA press release PR 04-07-28, 24 Nov 2003


    Proc. IAU Symposium No. 222, pp 37-39
    Contributions to SPIE's Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, The Industrial Revolution in Astronomy 2004, 21-25 June 2004, Glasgow, UK,
    ESO's
    The Messenger No 116, June 2004:

    Astronomy and Astrophysics 423 (2004) 537-548:

  • 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 Morek, 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, G Weigelt
    Mid-infrared sizes of circumstellar disks around Herbig Ae/Be stars measured with MIDI on the VLTI
    Baltic Astronomy 13 (3) (2004) 510-517:
  • O Chesneau, Ch Leinert, F Przygodda et al
    First MIDI science observations on VLT

    Nature 429 (2004):


    OBSPM news release First observation of an active galactic nucleus with the VLTI: resolution of the torus at the heart of NGC 1068, 5 May 2004


    ESO press release 10/04 Closer to the Monster, 5 May 2004


    Frank Przygodda's PhD thesis, entitled Spektroskopische und interferometrische Untersuchungen an T Tauri Sternen im mittleren Infrarotbereich (in German), submitted to the Faculties of the Natural Sciences and Mathematics of the University Heidelberg in Feb 2004.
    The MIDI section of the Annual Report 2003 of the MPIA, MIDI - a Breakthrough in Astronomical Observatio, pp 28-35, and the section MIDI Conference at Ringberg Castle, pp 102-104
    Proceedings of the Ringberg Workshop, Sep 1-5, 2003, Ringberg, Germany

    Leiden Observatory press release Stofring rond Zwart Gat gemeten, 20 June 2003

    ESO press release 17/03 A First Look at the doughnout around a Giant Black Hole, 19 June 2003

    MPIA press release PR 03-06-27, 27 June 2003


    ESO's The Messenger No 112, June 2003:
    Contributions to the DARWIN/TPF conference 2003, Apr 22-25, 2003, Heidelberg, Germany, ESA Special Publication SP-539:
    An excerpt of the MIDI section of the Annual Report 2002 of the MPIA, First Fringes für MIDI - Eine Revolution im Auflösungsvermögen, pp 27-32 (in German).
    First fringes press releases of Dec 2002: MPIA PR 02-12-19 (in German), ESO 25/02
    Contributions to JENAM 2002, WS VLTI - The Very Large Telescope Interferometer Challenges for the Future, Sep 2-7, 2002, Porto, Portugal, published in Astrophysics and Space Science 286 (1-2) (2003):
    Peter Schuller's PhD thesis, entitled Calibration of MIDI, the Mid-infrared Interferometer for the VLTI, submitted to the Faculties of the Natural Sciences and Mathematics of the University Heidelberg in Oct 2002.
    Contributions to the IAU Technical workshop Astronomical site evaluation in the visible and radio range, ASP Conference Series Vol. 266:
    Contributions to SPIE's International Symposium on Power Telescopes and Instrumentation into the New Millenium 2002, 22-28 August 2002, Waikoloa, Hawaii, including track AS05, Interferometry for Optical Astronomy II, published in Proc SPIE Volume 4838.
    Intern. Conference Scientific Frontiers in Research on Extrasolar Planets, June 18-21, 2002, Washington DC, ASP Conference Series Proceedings Vol. 294

    S Wolf, F Gueth, Th Henning, W Kley,
    Interferometric Detection of Plantets/Gaps in Protoplanetary Disks preprint astro-ph/0208461


    Contribution to the GENIE workshop 3-6 June 2002, Leiden, The Netherlands.
    Contribution to the conference "Observing with the VLTI", 3-8 Feb 2002, Les Houches, France, in EAS Publication Series Vol 6 (2003)
    Some pages in the Jahresbericht 2001 of the MPIA (in German), which is also pp 477-479 of the Mitteilungen der Astronomischen Gesellschaft 85 (2002).
    An excerpt of the Jahresbericht 2000 of the MPIA (in German), the section dealing with MIDI, which is also pp 472-74 of the Mitteilungen der Astronomischen Gesellschaft 84 (2001) pp 449-527.
    Contributions to SPIE's International Symposium on Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation 2000, 27-31 March 2000, Munich, Conference 4006, Interferometry in Optical Astronomy, Proc. SPIE Vol. 4006, ISBN 0-8194-3631-3:
    Applied Optics 39 (10) 2000
    Snapshot of the MIDI section on pp 471-472 in the Mitteilungen der Astronomischen Gesellschaft 83 (2000), which forms a part of the Jahresbericht 1999 of the MPIA (in German).
    Internat. Conference Working on the Fringe: Optical and IR Interferometry from Ground and Space, Dana Point, CA, May 24-27, 1999, ASP Conference Series Proceedings Vol. 194
    An excerpt of the MIDI section of the Annual Report 1998 of the MPIA.

    Contribution presented at SPIE's Conference on Astronomical Interferometry, Kona, Hawaii, 20-24 March 1998, Proc. SPIE Vol. 3350


    The file EndNote.txt contains EndNote entries for the MPIA annual reports.
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