LINC / NIRVANA Files

“A Near Infrared Beam Combiner for the LBT,” by H. -W. Rix and T. M Herbst

This is the original proposal we submitted to the LBT Project in September 1998 in response to the Level II call for in-kind instrument contributions.

Our technical ideas have evolved considerably in the interim, but this document is still interesting for the science case it lays out.

42 pages, Gzipped Postscript File (0.58 MB)

“Optical and NEar IR Interferometric or Combined Imager and Spectrograph (ONEIRIC I/S),” by A. Richichi and M. Gai

This is the original Arcetri proposal for a visible / near-IR beam combiner, also in response to the LBT call for instrument proposals.

ONEIRIC proposal onlineHTML Pages

“LINC: A Near-Infrared Beam Combiner for the Large Binocular Telescope,” by T. M. Herbst, P. Bizenberger, H. -W. Rix, and M. Ollivier

Poster paper presented at the March 2000 (Munich) SPIE Conference

8 pages, Gzipped Postscript File (0.63 MB)

“Fizeau Interferometry on the Large Binocular Telescope,” by T. M. Herbst, P. Bizenberger, M. Ollivier, H. -W. Rix, and R. -R. Rohloff

Talk presented at the July 2000 Ringberg conference “Science with the Large Binocular Telescope”

9 pages, Gzipped Postscript File (1.7 MB)

SPIE 2002 Waikaloa Papers

LINC-NIRVANA, a Fizeau Beam Combiner for the Large Binocular Telescope

T. M. Herbst, R. Ragazzoni, D. Andersen, H. Boehnhardt, P. Bizenberger, A. Eckart, W. Gaessler, H. -W. Rix, R. -R. Rohloff, P. Salinari, R. Soci, C. Straubmeier, and W. Xu

10 pages Gzipped Word Document (1.1 MB)

A Visible MCAO Channel for NIRVANA at the LBT

R. Ragazzoni, T. M. Herbst, W. Gaessler, D. Andersen, C. Arcidiacono, A. Baruffolo, H. Baumeister, P. Bizenberger, E. Diolaiti, S. Esposito, J. Farinato, H. -W. Rix, R. -R. Rohloff, A. Riccardi, P. Salinari, R. Soci, E. Vernet-Viard, W. Xu

8 pages Gzipped PDF File (6.7 MB)

The Correction of Pistonic Aberrations at the LBT - A Near-infrared Fringe and Flexure Tracker for LINC-NIRVANA

C. Straubmeier, A. Eckart, T. Bertram, L. Zealouk, and Y. Wang

11 pages Gzipped PDF File (360 kB)

JENAM 2002 Porto Papers

Interferometry with the Large Binocular Telescope (invited review)

T. M. Herbst

10 pages Gzipped PDF File (0.9 MB)

SPIE 2004 Glasgow Papers

Deconvolution methods for LINC/NIRVANA data reduction,
B. Anconelli, M. Carbillet, M. Bertero, P. Boccacci, [5491-102]

LINC-NIRVANA testbed Fizeau interferometer,
D. R. Andersen, P. Bizenberger, S. Egner, T. M. Herbst, T. Bertram, C. Straubmeier, [5491-207]

Sky coverage for layer oriented MCAO: a detailed analytical and numerical study,
C. Arcidiacono, E. Diolaiti, R. Ragazzoni, J. Farinato, E. Vernet, [5490-94]

The fringe tracker detector of the LBT LINC-NIRVANA beam combiner instrument,
U. Beckmann, J. Behrend, C. Connot, T. Driebe, M. Heiden, M. Heininger, K. Hofmann, E. Nussbaum, D. Schertl, W. Solscheid, G. Weigelt, [5491-166]

The LINC-NIRVANA fringe- and flexure-tracker: PSF- and atmospherical differential piston simulations and determination algorithm,
T. Bertram, C. Straubmeier, D. R. Andersen, C. Arcidiacono, U. Beckmann, A. Eckart, T. M. Herbst, [5491-167]

The LINC-NIRVANA cryogenic interferometric camera,
P. Bizenberger, D. Andersen, H. Baumeister, U. Beckmann, E. Diolaiti, T. M. Herbst, W. Laun, L. Mohr, C. Straubmeier, [5492-92]

LINC-NIRVANA: the single arm MCAO experiment,
S. E. Egner, W. Gaessler, T. M. Herbst, R. Ragazzoni, D. R. Andersen, H. Baumeister, P. Bizenberger, H. Boehnhardt, S. Ligori, H. Rix, R. Soci, R. Rohloff, R. Weiss, W. Xu, C. Arcidiacono, J. Farinato, E. Diolaiti, P. Salinari, E. Vernet-Viard, A. Eckart, T. Bertram, C. Straubmeier [5490-175]

Scientific potential for LINC NIRVANA observations of galactic nuclei,
A. Eckart, C. Straubmeier, T. Bertram, R. Schoedel, J. Zuther, J. Pott, T. Herbst, [5491-13]

LINC-NIRVANA: how to get a 23-m wavefront nearly flat,
W. Gaessler, [5490-90]

UML modeling of the LINC/NIRVANA control software,
W. Gaessler, [5496-10]

Last developments on the loop control system of AdOpt@TNG,
A. Ghedina, W. Gaessler, M. Cecconi, R. Ragazzoni, F. De Bonis, [5490-64]

The LINC-NIRVANA Interferometric Imager for the Large Binocular Telescope, [PDF - 2.8 MB]
T. M. Herbst, R. Ragazzoni, A. Eckart, and G. Weigelt [5492-40]

Interferometry on the Large Binocular Telescope, [PDF - 2.9 MB]
T. M. Herbst, P. M. Hinz, [5491-42]

Cooling of ground-based telescope instrumentation, the LINC-NIRVANA cryostat,
W. Laun, P. Bizenberger, H. Baumeister, R. Rohloff, C. Straubmeier, B. Gottschlich, [5492-125]

Image reconstruction from LBT LINC-NIRVANA data,
D. Schertl, U. Beckmann, T. Driebe, M. Heininger, K. Hofmann, G. Weigelt, [5491-182]

LINC-NIRVANA: mechanical challanges of the MCAO wavefront sensors,
R. Soci, [5490-130]

A fringe and flexure tracking system for LINC-NIRVANA: basic design and principle of operation,
C. Straubmeier, T. Bertram, A. Eckart, Y. Wang, L. Zealouk, T. Herbst, D. Andersen, R. Ragazzoni, G. Weigelt, [5491-171]

The LINC / NIRVANA Beam Combiner

Concept Review Document

This document has not yet been released to the public. Consortium members can retrieve it from the Internal Page

LINC-NIRVANA

Preliminary Design Review Document

Released 14 March 2003

478 Pages PDF File 8.7 MB