Practical Coherent Integration with the NPOI

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2008-07-21

arxiv.org/abs/0807.3204v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

SPIE 2008 Astronomical telescopes and instrumentation

Scientific paper

10.1117/12.790305

In this paper we will discuss the current status of coherent integration with the Navy Prototype Optical Interferometer (NPOI) (Armstrong et al. 2008). Coherent integration relies on being able to phase reference interferometric measurements, which in turn relies on making measurements at multiple wavelengths. We first discuss the generalized group-delay approach, then the meaning of the resulting complex visibilities and then demonstrate how coherent integration can be used to perform very precision measurement of stellar properties. For example, we demonstrate how we can measure the diameter of a star to a precision of one part in 350, and measure properties of binary stars. The complex phase is particularly attractive as a data product because it is not biased in the same way as visibility amplitudes.

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