Published on September 25, 2022

At the last SPIE meeting during the conference "Optical and Infrared Interferometry and Imaging VIII" prizes have been awarded to people deeply and succesfully involved on the development and the exploitation of interferometric instruments. Because the conference was held online two years ago during the pandemic, the ceremony included the 2020 awards.
The recipients were:
Guy Perrin, Fizeau Prize 2020 and Frank Eisenhauer, Michelson Investigator Prize 2020, both for, among other (...)

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Published on September 11, 2022

Before the deadlines for both ESO & NOIRlab Call for Proposals (September 27, at 12:00 noon CET for the ESO-Period 111 [April 1; September 30, 2023] and September 30, at 11:59 pm Mountain Standard Time (MST) for the CHARA-2023A Period [1 March 1; July 31, 2023], let us point out some progress made on different tools that you can use advantageously to prepare your proposals: Aspro2 (V22.09), with e.g. much improved memory footprint when using user-models and an access to SearchFTT (...)

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Published on July 21, 2022

so available to download here.
Please do not hesitate to report any feedback, precious as you know for the improvement of this tool that allows a user-friendly use of some imaging algorithms for interferometry.
OImaging has been presented at different international meetings, the latest one in Montreal for the SPIE conference this week (see the previous news). The first presentation, at Exeter in April, resulted in a video clickable on OImaging webpage.
Foreseen: other filmed (...)

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Published on July 17, 2022

Thursday, July 21 at 2pm EDT, Ferréol Soulez will present how to compare image reconstruction softwares with OImaging. He also will propose an extension of the OIFITS format, called IMAGE-OI, to standardize the communication with the image reconstruction algorithms.
This talk is one of the Optical and Infrared Interferometry and Imaging VIII conference.
Presentation and associated publication are online

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Published on June 19, 2022

Wednesday, June 29 at 11.45 a.m., Ferréol Soulez will present the image reconstruction and model fitting tools supported by expertise centers as the JMMC.
This talk will be one of the Special Session dedicated on the 20 years of VLTI.

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Published on May 22, 2022

The Crystal Medal of the french National Center for Scientific Research distinguishes women and men, research support staff, who by their creativity, technical mastery and sense of innovation, contribute to the advancement of knowledge and the excellence of French research.
Congratulations to Laurent!
The award ceremony organized by the CNRS Alps delegation will take place on November 14 at 2pm at the Grenoble Congress Center.

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Published on April 25, 2022

The JMMC is present at the Exeter meeting!
Monday, April 25 at 10 a.m., Laurent Bourgès will mainly present Aspro2 updates and new capabilities, and at 11 a.m., Ferréol Soulez will describe the latest release of OImaging.
The first presentation of the conference made by Mercedes Filho will be dedicated to the VLTI european Centers of Expertise including the French one managed by the JMMC.
More information on the website of "The sharpest Eyes on the Sky" conference.

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Published on March 23, 2022

You use Aspro2 to prepare the observations on your Science Target.
Let us know that you can with it easily check if your target and its calibrators have been already observed with the instruments MIDI, AMBER, PIONIER, GRAVITY or MATISSE: the command Get Observations in the Aspro2 top-menu (Edit) will display on the page the list of these observations.
That has been made possible thanks to the development of ObsPortal.

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Published on March 21, 2022

Features: Improved tooltips on the observability plot to display angular distances on science objects to calibrator and ancillary stars (AO, FT, GS) Improved tooltips in Target Editor’s navigation trees to display angular distances on calibrator and ancillary stars (AO, FT, GS) to their science object Added new CHARA fixed PoPs widgets to define PoPs associated to stations (’-’ means any Pop value [1-5]) Improved displayed CHARA Current & Fixed PoPs to use the station order given by (...)

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Published on March 18, 2022

In order to assist you in your GRAVITY-Wide proposal preparation, JMMC tech group has setup a simple tool that allows off-axis fringe tracking targets to be queried.
https://searchftt.jmmc.fr/index.html
As you will see, at the moment, the tool has minimalist features and we welcome suggestions for corrections and future evolutions (through the "feedback form" link).
Good proposal preparation!

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