Spatially resolved mid-infrared observations of the triple system T Tauri (2009)
Ratzka, Th., Schegerer, A. A., Leinert, Ch., Ábrahám, P., Henning, Th., Herbst, T. M., ...
To enhance our knowledge of the characteristics and distribution of the circumstellar dust associated with the individual components of the young hierarchical triple system T Tau, observations in the...
Darwin —- a mission to detect and search for life on extrasolar planets (2009)
Cockell, C. S., Léger, A., Fridlund, M., Herbst, T. M., Kaltenegger, L., Absil, O., ...
The discovery of extrasolar planets is one of the greatest achievements of modern astronomy. The detection of planets that vary widely in mass demonstrates that extrasolar planets of low mass exist....
Darwin-A Mission to Detect and Search for Life on Extrasolar Planets (2009)
Cockell, C S, Léger, A, Fridlund, M, Herbst, T M, Kaltenegger, L, Absil, Olivier, ...
The discovery of extrasolar planets is one of the greatest achievements of modern astronomy. The detection of planets that vary widely in mass demonstrates that extrasolar planets of low mass exist....
LIINUS/SERPIL: a design study for interferometric imaging spectroscopy at the LBT (2008)
Sanchez, F. Mueller, Gal, C., Eisenhauer, F., Krabbe, A., Haug, M., Iserlohe, C., ...
We present two design concepts and the science drivers of a proposed near-infrared interferometric integral field spectrograph for the LBT. This instrument will expand the capabilities of the...
Spatially resolved H2 emission from the disk around T Tau N (2008)
Gustafsson, M., Labadie, L., Herbst, T. M., Kasper, M.
We report the detection of quiescent H2 emission in a spatially resolved ring-like structure within 100 AU of T Tau N. We present evidence to show that the emission most likely arises from shocks in...
Orbits and Masses in the T Tauri System (2008)
Köhler, Rainer, Ratzka, Thorsten, Herbst, T. M., Kasper, Markus
We investigate the binary star T Tauri South, presenting the orbital parameters of the two components and their individual masses. We combined astrometric positions from the literature with...
LIINUS/SERPIL: a design study for interferometric imaging spectroscopy at the LBT (2008)
Müller Sánchez, F., Gál, C., Eisenhauer, F., Krabbe, A., Haug, M., Iserlohe, C., ...
Coupling LBT's double pupil into optical fibers (2008)
Müller Sánchez, F., Eisenhauer, F., Haug, M., Gál, C., Krabbe, A., Herbst, T. M.
LIINUS: a design study for interferometric imaging spectroscopy at the LBT (2008)
Gál, C., Müller Sánchez, F., Krabbe, A., Eisenhauer, F., Iserlohe, C., Haug, M., ...
Surface characterization of Pluto and Charon by L and M band spectra (2008)
Protopapa, S., Boehnhardt, H., Herbst, T. M., Cruikshank, D. P., Grundy, W. M., Merlin, F., ...
Spatially resolved H2 emission from the disk around T Tau N (2008)
Gustafsson, M., Labadie, L., Herbst, T. M., Kasper, M.
Context: Molecular hydrogen is the main constituent of circumstellar disks and could be an important tracer for the evolution and structure of such disks. So far, H2 has only been detected in a few...
Surface characterization of Pluto and Charon by L and M band spectra (2008)
Protopapa, S., Boehnhardt, H., Herbst, T. M., Cruikshank, D. P., Grundy, W. M., Merlin, F., ...
Context: One of the main scientific objectives of NASA's New Horizons mission is to map the icy surface compositions of Pluto and its moon Charon. The encounter will be in 2015. Meanwhile remote...
Coupling LBT's double pupil into optical fibers (2008)
Müller Sánchez, F., Eisenhauer, F., Haug, M., Gál, C., Krabbe, A., Herbst, T. M.
In the context of interferometric integral field spectroscopy at the LBT, we have investigated the physics of coupling light from a double pupil into optical fibers. Previous fiber-fed astronomical...
LIINUS/SERPIL: a design study for interferometric imaging spectroscopy at the LBT (2008)
Müller Sánchez, F., Gál, C., Eisenhauer, F., Krabbe, A., Haug, M., Iserlohe, C., ...
We present two design concepts and the science drivers of a proposed near-infrared interferometric integral field spectrograph for the LBT. This instrument will expand the capabilities of the...
Resolving with SINFONI the H_{2} emission from T Tau's disk (2008)
Labadie, L., Gustafsson, M., Herbst, T. M., Kasper, M.
We present spatially resolved near IR observations of the H_{2} emission in the vicinity of T Tau N using SINFONI, the integral field spectrograph of the VLT. The gas is detected as a ring-like...
Interferometry at the LBT (2008)
Labadie, L., Herbst, T. M., Rix, H. W.
The Large Binocular Telescope, resulting from a US/Germany/Italy partnership, is designed to be a multi-purpose observatory with single-dish and interferometric capabilities in the optical, near and...
Orbits and masses in the T Tauri system (2008)
Köhler, R., Ratzka, T., Herbst, T. M., Kasper, M.
Aims. We investigate the binary star T Tauri South, presenting the orbital parameters of the two components and their individual masses. Methods: We combined astrometric positions from the literature...
LINC-NIRVANA: achieving 10 mas imagery on the Large Binocular Telescope (2008)
Herbst, T. M., Ragazzoni, R., Eckart, A., Weigelt, G.
LINC-NIRVANA is an innovative imaging interferometer fed by dedicated multi-conjugated adaptive optics systems. The instrument combines the light of the two, 8.4-meter primary mirrors of the Large...
LINC-NIRVANA: the Fizeau interferometer for the Large Binocular Telescope (2008)
Herbst, T. M., Ragazzoni, R., Eckart, A., Weigelt, G.
LINC-NIRVANA is an innovative imaging interferometer fed by dedicated multi-conjugated adaptive optics systems. The instrument combines the light of the two, 8.4-meter primary mirrors of the Large...
LIINUS: a design study for interferometric imaging spectroscopy at the LBT (2008)
Gál, C., Müller-Sánchez, F., Krabbe, A., Eisenhauer, F., Iserlohe, C., Haug, M., ...
We present a feasible design concept and the science drivers for the proposed near-infrared interferometric integral field spectrograph at the LBT. Combining interferometric resolution with an...
Vibration measurements at the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) (2008)
Brix, M., Naranjo, V., Beckmann, U., Bertram, R., Bertram, T., Brynnel, J., ...
The Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) is an international collaboration, with partners from the United States, Italy, and Germany. The telescope uses two 8.4-meter diameter primary mirrors to produce...
T. M. Herbst, P. Boccacci, M. Bertero
Although the BN/KL region is one of the most active star forming sites in the solar vicinity, its true nature is still poorly understood. Due to the large foreground extinction, high-resolution IR...
The Large Binocular Telescope (LBT), currently under construction on Mount Graham in Arizona, will be the world's largest single telescope when it is completed in 2003. With its dual, 8.4 meter...
Solar system objects with the NACO Fabry-Perot and SINFONI (2007)
Hartung, M., Dumas, C., Herbst, T. M., Coustenis, A., Hirtzig, M., Adámkovics, M., ...
Molecular hydrogen outflows in the central arcseconds of the T Tauri system (2007)
Herbst, T. M., Hartung, M., Kasper, M. E., Leinert, Christoph, Ratzka, Thorsten
We present new, near-infrared, adaptive optics observations of the enigmatic pre-main-sequence object T Tauri, using broadband filter imagery, long-slit spectroscopy, and Fabry-Perot imaging spectra....
Fizeau interferometry with the LBT astronomy on the way to ELTs (2007)
Gaessler, W., Herbst, T. M., Ragazzoni, R., Eckart, A., Weigelt, G.
The Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) consists of two 8.4 m mirrors on one mechanical mounting, with a center to center separation of 14.4 m. In the combined, focus the LBT provides the spatial...
Egner, S. E., Gaessler, W., Herbst, T. M., Ragazzoni, R.
Turbulence in Earth's atmosphere severely limits the achievable image quality of ground-based optical telescopes. With the technique of adaptive optics, the induced distortions of the light can be...
Mid-ir imaging of the bn/kl region (2006)
A. Custo, T. M. Herbst, M. Robberto, S. Ligori, P. Boccacci, ...
Mid-ir imaging of the bn/kl region
LIINUS/SERPIL: a design study for interferometric imaging spectroscopy at the LBT (2006)
Gál, C., Müller-Sánchez, F., Krabbe, A., Eisenhauer, F., Iserlohe, C., Haug, M., ...
LIINUS/SERPIL: a design study for interferometric imaging spectroscopy at the LBT (2006)
Gál, C., Müller-Sánchez, F., Krabbe, A., Eisenhauer, F., Iserlohe, C., Haug, M., ...
LIINUS/SERPIL is a design study to augment LBTs interferometric beam combiner camera LINC-NIRVANA with imaging spectroscopy. The FWHM of the interferometric main beam at 1.5 micron will be about 10...
G-SCIDAR measurements on Mt. Graham: recent results (2006)
Egner, Sebastian E., Masciadri, Elena, McKenna, Dan, Herbst, T. M., Gaessler, W.
We present recent results of the atmospheric turbulence measured with a Generalized SCIDAR at Mt. Graham, running for 16 nights in 2004 and 2005 at the focus of the VATT Telescope. The principle of...
Beyond conventional G-SCIDAR: the ground-layer in high vertical resolution (2006)
Egner, Sebastian E., Masciadri, Elena, McKenna, Dan, Herbst, T. M.
By using the SCIDAR instrument at the VATT on the top of Mt. Graham and a very wide binary star with a separtion of 35", the vertical structure of the turbulence in the first few hundred meters above...
MANU-CHAO: a laboratory ground-layer adaptive optics experiment (2006)
Egner, Sebastian E., Gaessler, Wolfgang, Ragazzoni, Roberto, LeRoux, Brice, Herbst, T. M., Farinato, J., ...
We present a laboratory setup of a Ground-Layer Adaptive Optics system. This system is a scaled-down version of the MCAO system of MAD (a MCAO system for the VLT) / LINC-NIRVANA (a Fizeau Imager for...
LINC-NIRVANA: Optical design of an interferometric imaging camera (2006)
Bizenberger, P., Diolaiti, E., Egner, S., Herbst, T. M., Ragazzoni, R., Reymann, D., ...
Combining the two 8.4 m telescopes of the Large Binocular Telescope 1(LBT) offers the unique possibility to achieve diffraction limited images with 23 m spatial resolution. This requires an...
LINC-NIRVANA : MCAO toward extremely large telescopes (2005)
Gaessler, W., Arcidiacono, C., Egner, S., Herbst, T. M., Andersen, D., Baumeister, H., ...
Surface density of extremely red objects with R - J ≥5 (2005)
Hempel, A., Herbst, T. M., Thompson, D. J.
We present the results of a wide-field survey for extremely red objects (EROs), based on J and R band imaging. The survey covers 2.89 deg2, consisting of 50 single fields, each approximately 210...
The Orion Nebula in the mid-infrared (2005)
Robberto, M., Beckwith, S. V. W., Panagia, N., Patel, S. G., Herbst, T. M., Ligori, S., ...
We present two wide-field (~5'_3&farcm;5), diffraction-limited (lambda/D~=0.5" at 10 mum), broadband 10 and 20 mum images of the Orion Nebula, plus six 7-13 mum narrowband (lambda/Deltalambda~=1)...
The Orion Nebula in the mid-IR (2004)
Robberto, M., Beckwith, S. V. W., Panagia, N., Patel, S. G., Herbst, T. M., Ligori, S., ...
We present two wide-field (5'x5'), diffraction limited, broad-band 10 and 20 micron images of the Orion Nebula, plus six 7-13 micron narrow-band images of BN/KL taken at the 3.8m UKIRT telescope. The...
A new VLT surface map of Titan at 1.575 microns (2004)
Hartung, M., Herbst, T. M., Close, L. M., Lenzen, R., Brandner, W., Marco, O., ...
We present a first high contrast 1.575 micron surface map of Titan, that is haze corrected by simultaneously imaging the stratospheric layer. At visible and most near-infrared wavelengths, the...
LINC-NIRVANA : the single arm MCAO experiment (2004)
Egner, S. E., Gässler, W., Herbst, T. M., Ragazzoni, R., Stuik, R., Andersen, D., ...
UML modeling of the LINC-NIRVANA software (2004)
Gässler, W., Bertram, T., Briegel, F., Driebe, T., Heininger, M., Nußbaum, E., ...
M. Hartung, T. M. Herbst, L. M. Close, R. Lenzen, W. Br, O. Marco, ...
Abstract. We present a first high contrast 1.575 micron surface map of Titan, that is haze corrected by simultaneously imaging the stratospheric layer. At visible and most near-infrared wavelengths,...
Spatially resolved imaging spectroscopy of T Tauri (2002)
Kasper, M. E., Feldt, M., Herbst, T. M., Hippler, S., Ott, T., Tacconi-Garman, L. E.
The small separation of the individual stellar components in the T Tau system has prevented spectroscopy of the individual components in the near-infrared (NIR) in the past. We present NIR data (H...
Mid-IR Imaging of the BN/KL Region (2002)
Robberto, M., Beckwith, S. V. W., Ligori, S., Herbst, T. M., Custo, A., Boccacci, P., ...
Spatially Resolved Imaging Spectroscopy of T Tauri (2002)
Kasper, M. E., Feldt, M., Herbst, T. M., Hippler, S., Ott, T., Tacconi-Garman, L. E.
Mid-ir imaging of the bn/kl region (2002)
Beckwith, S. V. W., Bertero, M., Boccacci, P., Custo, A., Herbst, T. M., Ligori, S., ...
Mid-Ir Imaging Of The Bn/kl Region (2002)
M. Robberto, S. Ligori, T. M. Herbst, A. Custo, P. Boccacci, ...
this paper we present a new high-resolution 10 m image of the BN/KL region obtained on UKIRT in di#raction limited conditions
Spatially resolved imaging spectroscopy of T Tauri (2001)
Kasper, M. E., Feldt, M., Herbst, T. M., Hippler, S., Ott, T., Tacconi-Garman, L. E.
The small separation of the individual stellar components in the TTau system has prevented spectroscopy of the individual components in the near-infrared (NIR) in the past. We present NIR data (H-...
10 micron interferometry on the VLTI with the MIDI instrument: a preview (2000)
Leinert, C., Graser, U., Perrin, G., Lopez, B., ...
Herbst, T. M., Thompson, D., Fockenbrock, R., Beckwith, S. V. W.
We report preliminary results of a deep near-infrared search for methane-absorbing brown dwarfs; almost five years after the discovery of Gl 229b, there are only a few confirmed examples of this type...
Meyer, Michael R., Beckwith, S. V. W., Herbst, T. M., Robberto, M.
We report mid--IR observations of two young stars found in the Taurus dark cloud spatially resolving for the first time their 10 $\mu$m emission. The weak-emission T Tauri star DI Tau, tentatively...
LINC-NIRVANA : how to get a 23m wavefront nearly flat
Gässler, W., Ragazzoni, R., Herbst, T. M., Andersen, D., Arcidiacono, C., Baumeister, H., ...