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| Alternative names | PIONIER  |
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| Part of | Very Large Telescope Interferometer |
| First light | November 2010 |
| Telescope style | astronomical instrument |
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The Precision Integrated-optics Near-infrared Imaging Experiment (PIONIER) is a visiting instrument at the ESO's Paranal Observatory, part of the VLTI astronomical observatory. It combines the light from four telescopes simultaneously and provide 0.002 arc seconds of angular resolution, the equivalent angular resolution of a 100 m telescope.
PIONIER has been built at LAOG and has been installed at VLTI in November 2010.
See also
References
- "All Four VLT Unit Telescopes Working as One". ESO Picture of the Week. Retrieved 15 November 2011.
External links
- ipag
.osug .fr /twiki /bin /view /Ipag /Projets /Pionier /WebHome IPAG (Grenoble) - PIONIER project home - http://www.osug.fr OSUG Grenoble – PIONIER instrument
- www
.eso .org /sci /facilities /paranal /instruments /pionier .html ESO PIONIER – instrument description - www
.eso .org /sci /facilities /paranal /telescopes /vlti /index .html ESO VLTI – about the interferometer at the VLT
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