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The SPHERE View of Betelgeuse

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 May 2013

O. Chesneau
Affiliation:
Laboratoire Lagrange, UMR 7293, Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, CNRS, Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, Bvd. de l’Observatoire, BP. 4229, 06304 Nice Cedex 4, France
H.-M. Schmid
Affiliation:
Institute for Astronomy, ETH Zurich, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 27, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
M. Carbillet
Affiliation:
Laboratoire Lagrange, UMR 7293, Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, CNRS, Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, Bât. Fizeau, Parc Valrose, 06100 Nice, France
A. Chiavassa
Affiliation:
Laboratoire Lagrange, UMR 7293, Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, CNRS, Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, Bvd. de l’Observatoire, BP. 4229, 06304 Nice Cedex 4, France
L. Abe
Affiliation:
Laboratoire Lagrange, UMR 7293, Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, CNRS, Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, Bvd. de l’Observatoire, BP. 4229, 06304 Nice Cedex 4, France
D. Mouillet
Affiliation:
Institut de Planétologie et Astrophysique de Grenoble, CNRS-UJF UMR 5571, 414 rue de la Piscine, 38400 St. Martin-d’Hères, France
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Abstract

SPHERE, the Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch instrument for the VLT is optimized towards reaching the highest contrast in a limited field of view and at short distances from the central star, thanks to an extreme AO system. SPHERE is very well suited to study the close environment of Betelgeuse, and has a strong potential for detecting the ejection activity around this key red supergiant.

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© EAS, EDP Sciences 2013

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