| 12 February 2024 |
RAS Specialist Discussion meeting |
The program for our 'Roadmap to the next-generation infrared interferometric facility' meeting is now available on the RAS website.
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| 1 February 2024 |
EAS Special Session SS37 |
We organise the Special Session SS37 "Interferometric imaging of the inner few AU of circumstellar environments" at the European Astronomical Society Meeting in Padova, Italy.
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| 19 December 2023 |
RAS Specialist Discussion meeting |
We will organise a Specialist Discussion meeting on 8th of March 2024 at the Royal Astronomical Society in London on the topic 'Roadmap to the next-generation infrared interferometric facility'.
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| 1 October 2023 |
New Team members |
We welcome two new group members: Dr Jyotirmay Paul (postdoc) and Mr Daniel Lancaster (PGR research student) as new team member. Both will focus on different parts of BIFROST integration, as well as YSO and exoplanet science.
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| 10 July 2023 |
EAS Special Session |
We had inspiring discussion on the GAIA-BIFROST Legacy Survey (LS8) at our EAS lunch session.
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| 15+21 June 2023 |
BIFROST design review |
An panel of international experts reviews the science cases, concepts of operations, and optical design of our BIFROST instrument.
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| 1-3 March 2023 |
Asgard workshop |
The Exeter BIFROST team travels to Leuven to attend the
"Asgard Workshop", where we discuss the progress on BIFROST with colleagues from the Asgard team and ESO representatives.
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| February 2023 |
EAS session on GAIA binaries |
We are organising a lunch session on the
GAIA-BIFROST Legacy Survey (LS8).
The session is scheduled for July 10th at the EAS conference in Krakow, Poland. Abstracts for posters are accepted until March 8th.
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| 27 June 2022 |
Results in Brief |
Results in Brief article on ERC project "ImagePlanetFormDiscs" that completed last year:
"New imaging techniques reveal planet nurseries in unprecedented detail".
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| 15 June 2022 |
Paper: Gemini-LIGHTS survey |
Survey paper led by Evan Rich on GPI observations of 44 Herbig and T Tauri sources, including the detection of several new close companions down to the planetary-mass regime:
"New imaging techniques reveal planet nurseries in unprecedented detailGemini-LIGHTS: Herbig Ae/Be and massive T-Tauri protoplanetary disks imaged with Gemini Planet Imager"
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| 30 May 2022 |
New group member |
We welcome our new PostDoc Sorabh Chhabra to the group. Great to have you in the team! |
| Deadline: 4 May 2022 |
Open PostDoc position |
Advertisement for an
ERC-funded postdoc position on Instrument Control Software & Data Analysis.
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| 25 April 2022 |
Conference starts |
Our conference The Sharpest Eyes on the Sky 2022 (including CHARA/VLTI meeting) kicks off with 45 in-person and about 100 registered online participants.
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| 11 March 2022 |
Obituary: Dr. Matthew Willson |
Obituary has been published in A&G |
| 25 March 2022 |
Visitor instrument for VLTI |
The science whitepaper for our BIFROST instrument and for other instruments in the Asgard Suite has been submitted to ESO |
| 24 January 2022 |
In Memoriam: Dr. Matthew Willson |
It is with great sadness that we learned about the passing of our friend and Exeter graduate Matthew Willson. See here an In Memoriam |
| 20 October 2021 |
Interferometry Instrumentation Lab |
Refurbishment project of the new clean-room instrumentation lab in the Physics Building G21 begins. |
| 20 September 2021 |
New group members |
We welcome our new PhD students Isabelle Codron and Yi Lu to the group. |
| 9 July 2021 |
Aaron Labdon PhD viva |
Congratulations to Aaron Labdon on his successful PhD viva.
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| 25 March 2021 |
VLTI Expertise Centre |
We are happy to be part of Europe's largest astronomy network
ORP.
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| 9 December 2020 |
ERC grant awarded |
ERC Consolidator Grant project GAIA-BIFROST will allow us to explore the origin of diversity of star and planetary systems.
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| 29 September 2020 |
APOD |
GW Orionis visualisation that we worked on with ESO is featured as
Astronomy Picture of the Day
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| 14 September 2020 |
Star Formation Newsletter article |
Review paper, outlining the prospect for using GW Ori as benchmark for disk hydrodynamic studies:
Star Formation Newsletter issue 333
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| 3 September 2020 |
Paper highlight: Disk tearing in GW Ori |
Multi-wavelength study on GW Orionis published at Science magazine, featuring first MIRC-X YSO observations. A triple star system with a misaligned and warped circumstellar disk shaped by disk tearing. Open-access version is available here. For visualisation that help to understand the complex 3-dimensional geometry, see the ESO Press Release. An Augmented-Reality representation of our model can be found in the NRAO Press Release, allowing you to project the derived 3-dimensional geometry of the GW Orionis system into the real world.
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| 15 August 2020 |
Tentative new dates for Exeter conference |
The tentative new date for the Exeter Sharpest Eyes on the Sky conferences that will bring the CHARA and VLTI community together, is 2021 April 12-16.
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| 23 July 2020 |
MIRC-X instrument paper |
Instrument paper on our 6-telescope imager at CHARA; Anugu et al., AJ:
MIRC-X: a highly-sensitive six telescope interferometric imager at the CHARA Array
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| 29 June 2020 |
Paper highlight: Spin-orbit alignment in Beta Pictoris |
Kraus et al., ApJ: Spin-Orbit Alignment of the Beta Pictoris Planetary System.
Press features:
AAS Nova: Alignment of a Star and a Planet;
Centauri Dreams: Spin-Orbit Alignment: A Lesson from Beta Pictoris?;
Press Release Exeter
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| 14 May 2020 |
Paper highlight: Radiative transfer modeling of inner rim shape of RY Tau |
Davies et al., ApJ:
The Inner Disk of RY Tau: Evidence of Stellar Occultation by the Disk Atmosphere at the Sublimation Rim from K-band Continuum Interferometry
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| 11 March 2020 |
Exeter VLTI/CHARA meeting postponed |
The meeting has been postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The new date for 2021 will be announced at the 'Sharpest Eyes' conference website
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| 21 October 2019 |
Edward Hone viva |
Successful defense of Edward Hone's thesis 'Resolving the gas distribution and kinematics in the inner regions of protoplanetary disks'. Congrats and well done!
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| 20 June 2019 |
BIFROST instrument concept |
Science cases and instrument concept presented at ESO's 'VLT in 2030' conference:
Star Formation & Fundamental Stellar Astrophysics with VLTI at 1 micrometer
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| 28 May 2019 |
Paper highlight: Radiative transfer modelling of dusty disk |
Labdon et al., A&A:
Dusty disk winds at the sublimation rim of the highly inclined, low mass young stellar object SU Aurigae
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| 12 September 2018 |
MIRC-X Phase 2 commissioning |
First Light of MIRC-X with new beam combination scheme
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| 6 September 2018 |
Paper highlight: Gas dynamics in the disc wind of MWC297 |
Hone et al., A&A. Detailed gas kinematics study and first velocity-resolved infrared interferometric image of a young star:
Gas dynamics in the inner few AU around the Herbig B[e] star MWC297
Indications of a disk wind from kinematic modeling and velocity-resolved interferometric imaging
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| 6 March 2018 |
Paper highlight: Quantum-heated particles inside the disk cavity of MWC614 |
Kluska et al., ApJ.
A Multi-instrument and Multi-wavelength High Angular Resolution Study of MWC 614: Quantum Heated Particles Inside the Disk Cavity
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| 18 October 2017 |
Industrial partner FLI |
Our industrial partner "First Light Imaging" released a press release about our MIRC-X instrument, which brings their new C-RED One camera for the first time on-sky:
Press Release
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| 11 October 2017 |
Paper highlight: Dust trapping in V1247 Orionis |
Kraus et al., ApJL.
Dust-trapping Vortices and a Potentially Planet-triggered Spiral Wake in the Pre-transitional Disk of V1247 Orionis. Press features: ESO Picture of the Week;
ALMA Image Release;
Exeter Press Release;
AAS Nova: Trapping Dust to Form Planets;
Nature Astronomy research highlight: Dust devils in the details
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| 10 July 2017 |
MIRC-X detector commissioning |
Avalanche photodiode-based detector has been successfully commissioned at CHARA.
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| 6 July 2017 |
Matthew Willson viva |
Successful defense of Matthew Willson's thesis 'Observing the On-going Formation of Planets and its Effects on Their Parent Discs'. Congratulations!
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| 16 January 2017 |
Paper highlight: Dynamical Processes in High-Mass Star Formation |
Kraus et al. ApJL.
A High-mass Protobinary System with Spatially Resolved Circumstellar Accretion Disks and Circumbinary Disk. Press features:
AAS Nova: Resolving the Birth of High-mass Binary Stars;
VLTI Imaging of a High-Mass Protobinary System: Unveiling the Dynamical Processes in High-Mass Star Formation
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