Stellar diameter measurements with the CERGA optical interferometer - Recent developments and results

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Astrometry, Diameters, Interferometry, Stars, Fourier Transformation, Image Contrast, Image Processing

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The "small" interferometer at CERGA with baselines spanning from 6 to 67 meters has been providing for several years high angular resolution measurements of stars. Up to recently the fringe's contrast was estimated visually. Now, a new system for image processing is able to compute the contrast from fringe-patterns received on a photon-counting TV camera. On-line measurements are made by Fourier transform and their reliability has been improved by both new features in the experimental device and the new method for data recording and processing. The authors present here a short description of the present instrumental configuration as well as the principle of the overall data processing. In addition angular diameters thus obtained on four stars (α Cyg, ɛ Cyg, β And, α Per) are given as a result of a first observing run with the new system.

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