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A dusty veil shading Betelgeuse during its Great Dimming

scientific article published on 16 June 2021

A new dimension in the variability of AGB stars: Convection patterns size changes with pulsation

scientific article published in August 2024

AGB star atmospheres modeling as feedback to stellar evolutionary and galaxy models

scientific article published in August 2018

Accretion-ejection morphology of the microquasar SS 433 resolved at sub-au scale

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Accurate effective temperatures of the metal-poor benchmark stars HD 140283, HD 122563, and HD 103095 from CHARA interferometry

preprint

An impressionist view of V Hydrae

scientific article published in July 2024

CHARA/SPICA: a 6-telescope visible instrument for the CHARA Array

scientific article published on 26 August 2022

Constraining Convection in Evolved Stars with the VLTI

scholarly article

Constraining Stellar Parameters and Atmospheric Dynamics of the Carbon AGB star V Oph

scientific article published on 30 August 2019

Constraining convection across the AGB with high-angular-resolution observations

scientific article published in August 2018

Data flow system for the very large telescope interferometer

scholarly article

Detection of an asymmetry in the envelope of the carbon Mira R Fornacis using VLTI/MIDI

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Discovery of a complex spiral-shell structure around the oxygen-rich AGB star GX Monocerotis

scientific article published in April 2020

Dissecting the AGB star L2Puppis: a torus in the making

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Dissecting the AGB star L2Puppis: a torus in the making(Corrigendum)

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Ellipsoidal primary of the RS CVn binaryζ Andromedae

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Evidence of a Substellar Companion to AB Dor C

Evolution of VLTI science operations: Supporting imaging, astrometry, and monitoring types of interferometric observations

scientific article published on 26 August 2022

First MATISSE L -band observations of HD 179218

scientific article published in August 2021

First light for GRAVITY: Phase referencing optical interferometry for the Very Large Telescope Interferometer

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Fundamental properties and atmospheric structure of the red supergiant VY Canis Majoris based on VLTI/AMBER spectro-interferometry

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

GRAVITY chromatic imaging of η Car’s core

article published October 2018 in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Imaging the innermost gaseous layers of the Mira star R Car with GRAVITY-VLTI

scientific article published in June 2023

Interferometric observations of the Mira star o Ceti with the VLTI/VINCI instrument in the near-infrared

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Large granulation cells on the surface of the giant star π1 Gruis

scientific article published on 20 December 2017

Locating dust and molecules in the inner circumstellar environment of R Sculptoris with MATISSE

scientific article published in September 2022

MATISSE first pictures of dust and molecules around R Sculptoris

scientific article published in November 2020

MATISSE, the VLTI mid-infrared imaging spectro-interferometer

scientific article published in March 2022

MIDI and AMBER from the user’s point of view

MIDI observations of 1459 Magnya: First attempt of interferometric observations of asteroids with the VLTI

scientific article

Mid-infrared circumstellar emission of the long-period Cepheid ℓ Carinae resolved with VLTI/MATISSE

scientific article published in July 2021

Mid-infrared interferometry of the Mira variable RR Sco with the VLTI MIDI instrument

scientific article published in January 2005

Multi-epoch VLTI-PIONIER imaging of the supergiant V766 Cen

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Multiple star systems in the Orion nebula

scholarly article

Near-infrared interferometry of η Carinae with spectral resolutions of 1 500 and 12 000 using AMBER/VLTI

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

On the atmospheric structure and fundamental parameters of red supergiants

Planet formation imager: project update

scientific article

Planet formation imager: science vision and key requirements

scientific article (publication date: 4 August 2016)

Preparing observations for ESO telescopes: a versatile approach

scientific article published on 25 August 2022

Resolving the asymmetric inner wind region of the yellow hypergiant IRC +10420 with VLTI/AMBER in low and high spectral resolution mode

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Resolving the dusty torus and the mystery surrounding LMC red supergiant WOH G64

Silicon isotopic abundance toward evolved stars and its application for presolar grains

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Simultaneous 183 GHz H2O maser and SiO observations towards evolved stars using APEX SEPIA Band 5

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Spatially resolved dusty torus toward the red supergiant WOH G64 in the Large Magellanic Cloud

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Submilliarcsecond Optical Interferometry of the High-mass X-Ray Binary BP Cru with VLTI/GRAVITY

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Tests of stellar model atmospheres by optical interferometry

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Tests of stellar model atmospheres by optical interferometry

scientific article

The 2011 outburst of the recurrent nova T Pyxidis. Evidence for a face-on bipolar ejection

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

The 2014 interferometric imaging beauty contest

scholarly article published 24 July 2014

The Great Dimming of Betelgeuse from the VLT/VLTI

scientific article published in November 2020

The K-band intensity profile of R Leonis probed by VLTI/VINCI

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

The Mira variable S Orionis: relationships between the photosphere, molecular layer, dust shell, and SiO maser shell at 4 epochs

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

The VLTI/MIDI view on the inner mass loss of evolved stars from the Herschel MESS sample

scientific article

The asymmetric inner disk of the Herbig Ae star HD 163296 in the eyes of VLTI/MATISSE: evidence for a vortex?

scientific article published in March 2021

The atmospheric structure and fundamental parameters of the red supergiants AH Scorpii, UY Scuti, and KW Sagittarii

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

The building blocks of planets within the 'terrestrial' region of protoplanetary disks

scientific article

The carbon star R Sculptoris sheds its skin

The carbon star R Sculptoris sheds its skin

scientific article published in August 2018

The effect of winds in red supergiants: modeling for interferometry

scientific article published in August 2021

The effect of winds on atmospheric layers of red supergiants

scientific article published in January 2023

The extended atmosphere and circumstellar environment of the cool evolved star VX Sagittarii as seen by MATISSE

scientific article published in February 2022

The extended molecular envelope of the asymptotic giant branch star π 1 Gruis as seen by ALMA

scientific article published on 24 December 2019

The mid-infrared environment of the stellar merger remnant V838 Monocerotis

scientific article published in November 2021

The structure of the protoplanetary disk surrounding three young intermediate mass stars. II. Spatially resolved dust and gas distribution

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

TheHerschelPlanetary Nebula Survey (HerPlaNS)

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Tomography of cool giant and supergiant star atmospheres. III. Validation of the method on VLTI/AMBER observations of the Mira star S Ori

scientific article published in October 2020

Unexpectedly large mass loss during the thermal pulse cycle of the red giant star R Sculptoris.

scientific article published in October 2012

Unraveling Disks in AGB Stars

VLT Interferometer Data Flow System: from observation preparation to data processing

VLTI monitoring of the dust formation event of the Nova V1280 Scorpii

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

VLTI status update

scientific article published on 29 August 2022

VLTI status update: tapping into a powerful second-generation instrumentation

scientific article published on 13 December 2020

VLTI-AMBER Observations of η Carinae with High Spatial Resolution and Spectral Resolutions of λ/Δλ=1500 and 12 000*

VLTI-AMBER observations of Eta Carinae with high spatial resolution and spectral resolutions of 1,500 and 10,000

scientific article published on 14 June 2006

VLTI-AMBER observations of Eta Carinae with the FINITO fringe tracker and spectral resolution 12000

scientific article published on 14 July 2008

VLTI-GRAVITY measurements of cool evolved stars. I. Variable photosphere and extended atmosphere of the Mira star R Peg

scientific article published in January 2018

VLTI-MATISSE chromatic aperture-synthesis imaging of η Carinae’s stellar wind across the Br α line

scientific article

VLTI-PIONIER imaging of the red supergiant V602 Carinae

scientific article published in March 2020

VLTI/AMBER observations of cold giant stars: atmospheric structures and fundamental parameters

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

VLTI/AMBER spectro-interferometric imaging of VX Sagittarii's inhomogenous outer atmosphere

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

VLTI/AMBER spectro-interferometry of the late-type supergiants V766 Cen (=HR 5171 A),σOph, BM Sco, and HD 206859

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

VLTI/PIONIER reveals the close environment of the evolved system HD 101584

scientific article published in October 2020

VLTI/VINCI observations of the nucleus of NGC 1068 using the adaptive optics system MACAO

scientific article published in January 2004

What causes the large extensions of red supergiant atmospheres? Comparisons of interferometric observations with 1D hydrostatic, 3D convection, and 1D pulsating model atmospheres

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics