Published on April 17, 2025

The 2025 CHARA Science Meeting was held at Nice on April 28-30, 2025.
It was hosted by Denis Mourard and the Observatoire Côte d’Azur, which have also organized a one-day workshop on 25 April on "Long term future of Optical Interferometry".
People from JMMC took part in the CHARA Meeting, presenting the updates of the JMMC tools and services.
All the information of the meeting is available here.
All the presentations should be available soon here.

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Published on March 23, 2025

This last Aspro2 release improves the offer of analytical models with black-body components (temperature is a parameter and target flux is estimated depending on the instrument configuration). It indeed supports GetStar 6.0 beta interoperability to obtain all fluxes and complete target information.
To see the complete change log: http://www.jmmc.fr/aspro2/releasenotes.htm http://jmmc.fr/ swmgr/AsproConfig/aspro-conf/releasenotes.htm
GetStar 6 beta provides now more data and advanced (…)

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Published on December 20, 2024

from the JMMC team.
2024 saw many exchanges within the Optical Interferometry community. OI Conferences already planned for 2025 are listed here
And don’t forget the JMMC 2025 Scientific Days, on March 10-11 in Nice!

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Published on September 23, 2024

This last Aspro2 release provides long-standing enhancements (UV Coverage panel to handle U-axis orientation, new live mode ’now’ to generate only 1 data point to OIFITS, ’Configuration Manager’ available in all versions).
To see the complete change log: http://www.jmmc.fr/aspro2/releasenotes.htm http://jmmc.fr/ swmgr/AsproConfig/aspro-conf/releasenotes.htm
The SearchFTT service searches for nearby stars suitable for off-axis Fringe Tracking and off-axis Adaptive Optics. It has been (…)

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Published on July 04, 2024

At the last SPIE meeting, during the conference "Optical and Infrared Interferometry and Imaging IX" prizes have been awarded to people deeply and succesfully involved on the development and the success of the optical interferometry.
The recipients were:
Steve Ridgway, NOAO, Fizeau Prize 2024, for his lifelong work on optical interferometry, from speckle to long-baseline interferometry and for his high contribution to the construction of several interferometric facilities, including (…)

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Published on March 10, 2024

The last Aspro2 release provides an new advanced OIFITS data simulator - to estimate first the GRAVITY Fringe Tracker’s performance (single & dual field) then its impact on GRAVITY or MATISSE (GRA4MAT) observations - and an improved Adaptive Optics performance model to preliminary support the coming GRAVITY+ GPAO for VLTI UTs to be installed in Summer 2024.
To see the complete change log: http://www.jmmc.fr/aspro2/releasenotes.htm (…)

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Published on March 03, 2024

All the information are on the website.

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Published on February 29, 2024

The 2024 CHARA Science Meeting was held at Tucson, AZ on March 12-14, 2024.
It was hosted by NSF’s NOIRLab, which was organizing a one-day workshop on 11 March on "Charting Quantum Horizons: Establishing a Roadmap for Microarcsecond Astronomy".
People from JMMC took part in the meetings, presenting during the CHARA days the updates of the tools open to the community as well as possible developments to the OIDB database.
All the information is available here.

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Published on September 15, 2023

ASPRO2 23.09 is available for the ESO "Call for Proposals - Period 113 (April 1 - September 30, 2024)" and the CHARA Array "Call for Proposals -2024A - (March 1 - July 31, 2024)", 45 nights of community access time).
To see the complete change log:
http://www.jmmc.fr/aspro2/releasenotes.htm
http://jmmc.fr/ swmgr/AsproConfig/aspro-conf/releasenotes.htm
Deadlines for proposals: ESO: Tuesday 26 September 2023, 12:00 noon CEST
For VLTI users needing assistance to prepare their VLTI (…)

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Published on June 05, 2023

JMMC was actively involved in this busy but very enthusiastic week,
as shown by the program available on the school’s web page.
Course and tutorials presentations should be available soon.

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