Table of Contents

• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Overview
  • Scope of the Document
  • Work Breakdown
  • Critical Issues
  • Identified show-stoppers
  • Tools and Technologies Required
  • Questions and Requests
  • Applicable Documents (ADs)
  • Acronyms
  
  
• Introduction
  • Background
  • Interferometry
  
  
• Numerical simulations
  • Introduction
  • Simulation method
  • Simulation Results
  
  
• Wavefront amplitude and phase fluctuations above M1
  • Introduction
  • Dependencies
  • Detailed contributions
  • Impact on astrometry
  • Corrective measures required
  • Further analysis required
  • Conclusion
  
  
• Wavefront corrugations before and after the StS
  • Introduction
  • Dependencies
  • Detailed contributions
  • Impact on astrometry
  • Corrective measures required
  • Further analysis required
  • Conclusion
  
  
• Wavefront corrugations before VCM
  • Introduction
  • Dependencies
  • Detailed contributions
  • Impact on astrometry
  • Corrective measures required
  • Further analysis required
  • Conclusion
  
  
• Wavefront corrugations before FSU spatial filter
  • Introduction
  • Dependencies
  • Detailed contributions
  • Impact on astrometry
  • Corrective measures required
  • Further analysis required
  • Conclusion
  
  
• Internal vibration in the VLTI
  • Introduction
  • Dependencies
  • Detailed contributions
  • Impact on astrometry
  • Corrective measures required
  • Further analysis required
  • Conclusion
  
  
• Atmospheric scintillation and thermal background fluctuations
  • Introduction
  • Dependencies
  • Detailed contributions
  • Impact on astrometry
  • Corrective measures required
  • Further analysis required
  • Conclusion
  
  
• Effect of detector noise and photon shot noise
  • Introduction
  • Dependencies
  • Detailed contributions
  • Impact on astrometry
  • Corrective measures required
  • Further analysis required
  • Conclusion
  
  
• Polarisation effects
  • Introduction
  • Dependencies
  • Detailed contributions
  • Impact on astrometry
  • Corrective measures required
  • Further analysis required
  • Conclusion
  
  
• Refractive index of air and colour of correlated flux
  • Introduction
  • Dependencies
  • Detailed contributions
  • Impact on astrometry
  • Corrective measures required
  • Further analysis required
  • Conclusion
  
  
• Drift in image plane VCMs
  • Introduction
  • Dependencies
  • Detailed contributions
  • Impact on astrometry
  • Corrective measures required
  • Further analysis required
  • Conclusion
  
  
• Variation in VLTI fundamental length calibration
  • Introduction
  • Dependencies
  • Detailed contributions
  • Impact on astrometry
  • Corrective measures required
  • Further analysis required
  • Conclusion
  
  
• VLTI baseline geometry
  • Introduction
  • Dependencies
  • Detailed contributions
  • Impact on astrometry
  • Corrective measures required
  • Further analysis required
  • Conclusion
  
  
• Systematic differences in baseline length for PS and SeS
  • Introduction
  • Dependencies
  • Detailed contributions
  • Impact on astrometry
  • Corrective measures required
  • Further analysis required
  • Conclusion
  
  
• Galactic effects
  • Introduction
  • Dependencies
  • Detailed contributions
  • Impact on astrometry
  • Corrective measures required
  • Further analysis required
  • Conclusion
  
  
• Solar System effects
  • Introduction
  • Dependencies
  • Detailed contributions
  • Impact on astrometry
  • Corrective measures required
  • Further analysis required
  • Conclusion
  
  
• Systematic effects from the atmosphere
  • Introduction
  • Dependencies
  • Detailed contributions
  • Impact on astrometry
  • Corrective measures required
  • Further analysis required
  • Conclusion
  
  
• Effect of aberrations in image plane optical components
  • Introduction
  • Dependencies
  • Detailed contributions
  • Impact on astrometry
  • Corrective measures required
  • Further analysis required
  • Conclusion
  
  
• Image plane optics in the star separator
  • Introduction
  • Dependencies
  • Detailed contributions
  • Impact on astrometry
  • Corrective measures required
  • Further analysis required
  • Conclusion
  
  
• Position difference between stellar beam and metrology beam footprints in Star Separator
  • Introduction
  • Dependencies
  • Detailed contributions
  • Impact on astrometry
  • Corrective measures required
  • Further analysis required
  • Conclusion
  
  
• Effect of aberrations in pupil plane optical components
  • Introduction
  • Dependencies
  • Detailed contributions
  • Impact on astrometry
  • Corrective measures required
  • Further analysis required
  • Conclusion
  
  
• Effect of beam walk on optics before the StS
  • Introduction
  • Dependencies
  • Detailed contributions
  • Impact on astrometry
  • Corrective measures required
  • Further analysis required
  • Conclusion
  
  
• Systematic errors in the FSU phase
  • Introduction
  • Dependencies
  • Detailed contributions
  • Impact on astrometry
  • Corrective measures required
  • Further analysis required
  • Conclusion
  
  
• Knowledge of stellar spectra
  • Introduction
  • Dependencies
  • Detailed contributions
  • Impact on astrometry
  • Corrective measures required
  • Further analysis required
  • Conclusion
  
  
• Total spectral response of PRIMA system
  • Introduction
  • Dependencies
  • Detailed contributions
  • Impact on astrometry
  • Corrective measures required
  • Further analysis required
  • Conclusion
  
  
• Fringe jumps and group tracking errors
  • Introduction
  • Dependencies
  • Detailed contributions
  • Impact on astrometry
  • Corrective measures required
  • Further analysis required
  • Conclusion
  
  
• Limiting magnitudes for PRIMA
  • Introduction
  • Dependencies
  • Detailed contributions
  • Impact on astrometry
  • Corrective measures required
  • Further analysis required
  • Conclusion
  
  
• Total astrometric error
  • Introduction
  • Dependencies
  • Detailed contributions
  • Impact on astrometry
  • Corrective measures required
  • Further analysis required
  • Conclusion
  
  
• Conclusions
• Temporal and spatial properties of seeing at Paranal
  • Introduction
  • Dependencies
  • Detailed contributions
  • Impact on astrometry
  • Corrective measures required
  • Further analysis required
  • Conclusion
  
  
• Thermal loading in the VLTI
  • Introduction
  • Dependencies
  • Detailed contributions
  • Impact on astrometry
  • Corrective measures required
  • Further analysis required
  • Conclusion
  
  
• Internal seeing within the VLTI
  • Introduction
  • Dependencies
  • Detailed contributions
  • Impact on astrometry
  • Corrective measures required
  • Further analysis required
  • Conclusion
  
  
• Isoplanatism at Paranal
  • Introduction
  • Dependencies
  • Detailed contributions
  • Impact on astrometry
  • Corrective measures required
  • Further analysis required
  • Conclusion
  
  
• Large scale structure in the atmosphere above Paranal
  • Introduction
  • Dependencies
  • Detailed contributions
  • Impact on astrometry
  • Corrective measures required
  • Further analysis required
  • Conclusion
  
  
• Air flow through the VLTI
  • Introduction
  • Dependencies
  • Detailed contributions
  • Impact on astrometry
  • Corrective measures required
  • Further analysis required
  • Conclusion
  
  
• Performance of STRAP
  • Introduction
  • Dependencies
  • Detailed contributions
  • Impact on astrometry
  • Corrective measures required
  • Further analysis required
  • Conclusion
  
  
• Seismic Activity
  • Introduction
  • Dependencies
  • Detailed contributions
  • Impact on astrometry
  • Corrective measures required
  • Further analysis required
  • Conclusion
  
  
• Model for the refractive index of air
  • Introduction
  • Dependencies
  • Detailed contributions
  • Impact on astrometry
  • Corrective measures required
  • Further analysis required
  • Conclusion
  
  
• Spectral Response of PRIMA Hardware
  • Introduction
  • Dependencies
  • Detailed contributions
  • Impact on astrometry
  • Corrective measures required
  • Further analysis required
  • Conclusion
  
  
• Earth rotation model
  • Introduction
  • Dependencies
  • Detailed contributions
  • Impact on astrometry
  • Corrective measures required
  • Further analysis required
  • Conclusion
  
  
• Position and separation of stars
  • Introduction
  • Dependencies
  • Detailed contributions
  • Impact on astrometry
  • Corrective measures required
  • Further analysis required
  • Conclusion
  
  
• Date and time of the observations
  • Introduction
  • Dependencies
  • Detailed contributions
  • Impact on astrometry
  • Corrective measures required
  • Further analysis required
  • Conclusion
  
  
• Observing parameters
  • Introduction
  • Dependencies
  • Detailed contributions
  • Impact on astrometry
  • Corrective measures required
  • Further analysis required
  • Conclusion
  
  
• Inter-dependencies