Invited Paper IPF-SuA7
Imaging with Near-infrared Interferometers

Sunday, October 19, 2008, 5:00 pm, Room 312

Under the best conditions, telescope diffraction limits the angular resolution for astronomical imaging. Using interferometry, we can coherently combine light from widely-separated telescopes to overcome the single-telescope diffraction limit to boost our imaging resolution by orders of magnitude. I will review recent technical advances combining four telescopes of the CHARA Array on Mt. Wilson, CA, with baselines of 330 meters allowing imaging with sub-milli-arcsecond resolution. I will present the first resolved images of main sequence stars besides the Sun and show first results imaging interacting binary systems.