[Interview] x1,000 Resolution of JWST But x1,000 Cheaper

Interferometers are a great tool for getting incredible resolution without building giant mirrors. Why don't all telescopes use it? What projects should we expect and what could we get from them? What are the challenges? Finding out in this interview!

🟣 Guest: Dr. Gerard van Belle

https://lowell.edu/people/gerard-van-belle/

📜 Big Fringe Telescope:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.01386

📜 MoonLITE: a CLPS-delivered NASA Astrophysics Pioneers lunar optical interferometer for sensitive, milliarcsecond observing

https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.01392

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• 00:00:00 Intro


• 00:02:05 What is an interferometer


• 00:13:50 Interferometers in space


• 00:19:37 Interferometers on the Moon


• 00:39:03 Detecting exoplanets with interferometers


• 00:46:28 The bonkers idea


• 00:53:48 BFT


• 01:03:41 Current obsessions


• 01:08:02 Final thoughts

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