1. Foreword

   OriginalPaper Pages: vii - xvi

2. Interferometry theory primer

   • D. Mouillet

   OriginalPaper Pages: 3 - 15

3. Optical interferometry – A practice primer

   • M. Schöller

   OriginalPaper Pages: 17 - 31

4. The VLTI – A Status Report

   • A. Glindemann
   • J. Algomedo
   • R. Wilhelm

   OriginalPaper Pages: 35 - 44

5. Interferometry with the Large Binocular Telescope

   • T. Herbst

   OriginalPaper Pages: 45 - 53

6. Introducing the near infrared VLTI instrument AMBER to its users

   • R.G. Petrov
   • The AMBER Consortium

   OriginalPaper Pages: 57 - 67

7. Preparation of the AMBER integrations

   • C. Gil
   • K. Perraut
   • O. Preis

   OriginalPaper Pages: 69 - 72

8. MIDI – the 10 μm instrument on the VLTI

   • Ch. Leinert
   • U. Graser
   • K. Wagner

   OriginalPaper Pages: 73 - 83

9. Interferometric Observation at Mid-Infrared Wave-lengths with MIDI

   • Frank Przygodda
   • O. Chesneau
   • S. Morel

   OriginalPaper Pages: 85 - 91

10. GENIE – The Darwin demonstrator

    • M. Fridlund
    • Ph. Gondoin

    OriginalPaper Pages: 93 - 98

11. PRIMA for the VLTI – Science

    • F. Delplancke
    • F. Derie
    • S. Ménardi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 99 - 104

12. The VLTI Calibrators Program: Getting ready for high accuracy measurements

    • I. Percheron
    • A. Richichi
    • M. Wittkowski

    OriginalPaper Pages: 105 - 112

13. 2D/3D Dust Continuum Radiative Transfer Codes to Analyze and Predict VLTI Observations

    • I. Pascucci
    • Th. Henning
    • S. Wolf

    OriginalPaper Pages: 113 - 118

14. Scientific and technical results from VINCI using coherent estimation of fringe visibility

    • J.A. Meisner

    OriginalPaper Pages: 119 - 127

15. Probing the close environment of young stellar objects with interferometry

    • F. Malbet

    OriginalPaper Pages: 131 - 144

16. Palomar Testbed Interferometer Observations of Young Stellar Objects

    • F.P. Wilkin
    • R.L. Akeson

    OriginalPaper Pages: 145 - 150

17. Probing the magnetosphere in young stars with AMBER/VLTI

    • C. Dougados
    • J. Bouvier
    • D.F.M. Folha

    OriginalPaper Pages: 151 - 156

18. Unveiling the Launching Region of YSO Jets with AMBER

    • Francesca Bacciotti
    • Leonardo Testi
    • Catherine Dougados

    OriginalPaper Pages: 157 - 162

19. Imaging stars and their environments with the VLTI

    • Ch. Haniff

    OriginalPaper Pages: 163 - 170

20. Imaging with Amber/VLTI: the case of microjets

    • E. Thiébaut
    • P.J.V. Garcia
    • R. Foy

    OriginalPaper Pages: 171 - 176

21. Pulsating Stars

    • Benjamin F. Lane

    OriginalPaper Pages: 177 - 183

22. Cepheid Limb Darkening Models for the VLTI

    • M. Marengo
    • M. Karovska
    • T.E. Nordgren

    OriginalPaper Pages: 185 - 190

23. Prospects of high angular resolution measurements of binary stars properties with VLTI

    • S. Correia
    • A. Richichi
    • M. Schöller

    OriginalPaper Pages: 191 - 196

24. Interferometry: The tool to study giant, supergiant and Mira stars

    • Guy Perrin

    OriginalPaper Pages: 197 - 212

25. Synthetic radii and visibilities for pulsating red giants

    • Josef Hron
    • Walter Nowotny
    • Susanne Höfner

    OriginalPaper Pages: 213 - 218

26. First VLTI observations of Mira stars

    • Andrea Richichi
    • Markus Wittkowski

    OriginalPaper Pages: 219 - 224

27. Active hot star shells

    • Philippe Stee

    OriginalPaper Pages: 225 - 236

28. The Wolf-Rayet stars at high (spatial) resolution

    • A. Niedzielski

    OriginalPaper Pages: 237 - 244

29. Extragalactic Astronomy with the VLTI: a new window on the Universe

    • Alessandro Marconi
    • Roberto Maiolino
    • Romain G. Petrov

    OriginalPaper Pages: 245 - 254

30. Potential of the VLTI for linking stellar frames to ICRF

    • Gérard Daigne
    • Patrick Charlot
    • Jean-François Lestrade

    OriginalPaper Pages: 255 - 260

31. Distances on Cosmological Scales with VLTI

    • Margarita Karovska
    • Martin Elvis
    • Massimo Marengo

    OriginalPaper Pages: 261 - 266

32. Long Range Science Perspectives for the VLTI

    • A. Eckart
    • T. Bertram
    • J. Zuther

    OriginalPaper Pages: 269 - 276

33. Next Generation Instrumentation for the Very Large Telescope Interferometer

    • A. Quirrenbach

    OriginalPaper Pages: 277 - 289

34. Second generation instrumentation for the VLTI: The french VLTI connection

    • Denis Mourard
    • Olivier Lardiere
    • Philippe Stee

    OriginalPaper Pages: 291 - 296

35. The VLTI: Challenges for the Future

    • Francesco Paresce

    OriginalPaper Pages: 297 - 309

36. The Kluwer LaTeX Style File

    Instructions for Authors Pages: 311 - 312