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The complete reference is New Astronomy Reviews (October 2007), Volume 51, Issues 8-9, 563-730.

Observation and Data Reduction with the VLT Interferometer
Proceedings of the VLTI Euro Summer School held in Goutelas, France, 4-16 June 2006
Edited by Fabien Malbet and Guy Perrin
Supported by EC contract No. MSCF-CT-2005-029954

Table of contents

•   Contents
•   Foreword (F. Malbet, G. Perrin)

• 1. Principles of optical interferometry
  •   An introduction to the theory of interferometry (C. Haniff)
  •   An introduction to visibility modeling (J.-P. Berger & D. Ségransan)
  •   Ground-based optical interferometry: a practical primer (C. Haniff)
  •   Observability and UV coverage (D. Ségransan)
  •   Phases in Interferometry (J.D. Monnier)

• 2. Interferometry in practice
  •   Calibrating optical/IR interferometry visibility data (A. Boden)
  •   Searching for calibrators (G. Duvert & D. Bonneau)

• 3. Preparing VLTI observations
  •   The Very Large Telescope Interferometer: Current facility and prospects (M.    Schöller)
  •   MIDI and AMBER from the user’s point of view (M. Wittkowski)
  •   Preparation of VLTI observations (G. Duvert & G. Duchêne)
  •   Preparing an ESO proposal (P. Kervella & P. Garcia)

• 4. Data reduction and model fitting
  •   MIDI: Obtaining and analysing interferometric data in the mid-infrared (Chesneau)
  •   AMBER data reduction (Tatulli, Duvert)

• 5. Model fitting
  •   Model fitting tutorial (Tallon-Bosc, Tallon)

• 6. Optical interferometry through examples
  •   Observations of Achernar with VINCI (Kervella)
  •   VLTI’s view of the circumstellar environment of cool evolved stars(Ohnaka)
  •   Observations of AGN with MIDI (Tristram)
  •   AMBER/VLTI observations of η Carinae with high spatial resolution and spectral resolutions of λ/Δλ = 1500 and 12 000 (Weigelt)