{"paper":{"title":"GRAVITY faint: reducing noise sources in GRAVITY$^+$ with a fast metrology attenuation system","license":"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":[],"primary_cat":"astro-ph.IM","authors_text":"A. Drescher, C. Rau, C. Straubmeier, D. Defr\\`ere, D. Lutz, E. Wieprecht (for the GRAVITY+ Collaboration), F. Eisenhauer, F. Gont\\'e, F. Widmann, G. Bourdarot, G. Perrin, H. Feuchtgruber, J.-B. Le Bouquin, J. Shangguan, J. Woillez, K. Perraut, L. Kreidberg, M. Fabricius, M. Hartl, M. Horrobin, N. More, P. Garcia, R. Genzel, S. Gillessen, S. H\\\"onig, S. Uysal, S. Yazici, T. Ott, T. Paumard, T. Shimizu, W. Brandner","submitted_at":"2022-09-12T20:17:36Z","abstract_excerpt":"With the upgrade from GRAVITY to GRAVITY$^+$ the instrument will evolve into an all-sky interferometer that can observe faint targets, such as high redshift AGN. Observing the faintest targets requires reducing the noise sources in GRAVITY as much as possible. The dominant noise source, especially in the blue part of the spectrum, is the backscattering of the metrology laser light onto the detector. To reduce this noise we introduce two new metrology modes. With a combination of small hardware changes and software adaptations, we can dim the metrology laser during the observation without losin"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"2209.05593","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"integrity":{"clean":true,"summary":{"advisory":0,"critical":0,"by_detector":{},"informational":0},"endpoint":"/pith/2209.05593/integrity.json","findings":[],"available":true,"detectors_run":[],"snapshot_sha256":"c28c3603d3b5d939e8dc4c7e95fa8dfce3d595e45f758748cecf8e644a296938"},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}