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    The CHARA (Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy) array is an optical interferometer, located on Mount Wilson, California. The array consists of...
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    in 1908, the 150-foot (46 m) solar tower completed in 1912, and the CHARA array, built by Georgia State University, which became fully operational in...
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  • related to Chara. Chara (alga), a genus of algae in the family Characeae Chara (moth), a genus of moths in the family Noctuidae CHARA array, a telescope...
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  • Effective Temperatures of B-type Stars from Optical Interferometry with the CHARA Array". The Astrophysical Journal. 873 (1): 91. Bibcode:2019ApJ...873...91G...
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    expected to produce their first images soon, including the VLTI, the CHARA array and Le Coroller and Dejonghe's Hypertelescope prototype. If completed...
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  • synthesis soon[needs update], followed by other interferometers such as the CHARA array and the Magdalena Ridge Observatory Interferometer which may consist...
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    2001 and then later confirmed with the CHARA array at Mt. Wilson in 2006 and the Infrared Optical Telescope Array at Mt. Hopkins in 2011, revealed evidence...
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    from 2006 infrared observations made with the MIRC instrument on the CHARA array interferometer; this was the first time the surface of any main-sequence...
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    studied with more accuracy the Polaris' smaller companion orbit using the CHARA Array. During this observation campaign they have succeeded in shooting Polaris...
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    the resolution achieved using other arrays such as the Navy Prototype Optical Interferometer and the CHARA array. Unlike many earlier optical and infrared...
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    F.; Thompson, R. R.; Coyne, J. (2006-01-20). "First Results from the CHARA Array. III. Oblateness, Rotational Velocity and Gravity Darkening of Alderamin"...
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    2024). "The Orbit and Dynamical Mass of Polaris: Observations with the CHARA Array". The Astrophysical Journal. 971 (2): 190. arXiv:2407.09641. Bibcode:2024ApJ...
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    60-foot (18.3 m) and 150-foot (45.7 m) tall solar towers. The newer CHARA Array, run by Georgia State University, is also sited there and does important...
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    accretion disk of the secondary star were resolved and imaged using the CHARA Array interferometer and the Michigan InfraRed Combiner (MIRC) in the near...
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    (CERGA) Cote d'Azure Observatory tested beam combining technology at CHARA array. Astronomers developed a theory about M-Type asteroids, that may be tested...
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    infrared. In 2023, Rho Cassiopeiae was imaged through interferometry at the CHARA array. The star was observed at the H and K near-infrared wavelengths, and...
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  • letters. T.A. ten Brummelaar; et al. (2005). "First Results from the CHARA Array. II. A Description of the Instrument". Astrophysical Journal. 628 (1):...
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    Moderate Aperture Research Telescope System (or SMARTS) in Chile, and the CHARA array on Mount Wilson Observatory in Los Angeles County, California, Hard Labor...
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    parsecs or approximately 49 light years from Earth. Interferometry by the CHARA array show that Alderamin has an oblate shape, its equatorial size measures...
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    Aufdenberg, J.P.; Ridgway, S.T.; et al. (2006). "First results from the CHARA Array: VII. Long-Baseline Interferometric Measurements of Vega Consistent with...
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    telescope. It was imaged by the CHARA array in 2015, 2016, 2019, 2020, and 2021. Observations during 2015 and 2016 with CHARA show that the star has an angular...
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    Effective Temperatures of B-type Stars from Optical Interferometry with the CHARA Array". The Astrophysical Journal. 873 (1): 91. Bibcode:2019ApJ...873...91G...
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    Effective Temperatures of B-type Stars from Optical Interferometry with the CHARA Array". The Astrophysical Journal. 873 (1): 91. Bibcode:2019ApJ...873...91G...
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    Grundstrom; Ogden; Ridgway; Van Belle; et al. (2005). "First Results from the CHARA Array. I. An Interferometric and Spectroscopic Study of the Fast Rotator Alpha...
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    other astronomical telescope arrays including: the Navy Prototype Optical Interferometer, the CHARA array, and the IOTA array. In 2008, Max Tegmark and Matias...
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    Effective Temperatures of B-type Stars from Optical Interferometry with the CHARA Array". The Astrophysical Journal. 873 (1): 91. Bibcode:2019ApJ...873...91G...
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  • Sigma Draconis has been directly measured using interferometry with the CHARA array, which yields a result of 77.6% of the Sun's radius. It has 84% of the...
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    great dimming event, and it was subsequently observed by the CHARA interferometry array in December. The distance to RW Cephei has been estimated on the...
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    main-sequence. It is the star with the smallest angular diameter measured by the CHARA array, at 0.11±0.02 milliarcseconds. 10 Lacertae has an 8th magnitude companion...
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    Adric R.; Ireland, Michael; von Braun, Kaspar (21 November 2012). "The CHARA Array Angular Diameter of HR 8799 Favors Planetary Masses for Its Imaged Companions"...
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