Aurélien Benoît

First on-sky fringes in K-band of an ULI-manufactured integrated optics beam combiner at the CHARA observatory

Long-baseline interferometric observations in the Near Infrared reach angular resolutions on the order of milliarcseconds. With the long baselines of the CHARA array, science cases such as exozodiacal dust of early-type main sequence stars can be probed to study early-stage planet formation with percentage-precision vi...