Statistics – Computation
Scientific paper
Oct 2004
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004spie.5491.1474j&link_type=abstract
New Frontiers in Stellar Interferometry, Proceedings of SPIE Volume 5491. Edited by Wesley A. Traub. Bellingham, WA: The Intern
Statistics
Computation
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Scientific paper
We have developed a method for performing long coherent integrations with the Navy Prototype Optical Interferometer (NPOI), which is based on fitting a model fringe pattern to the NPOI data frames. The procedure is quite computationally intensive, but gives a better estimation of the phase than the conventional method of location the peak of the group delay power. We mention briefly some of the most important past work on coherent integration, and then describe our method. We conclude that the fitting approach produces a phase with fewer outliers than the Fourier-transform group delay approach. We show how the instrumental squared visibility varies as a function of the fringe model used, and show that it provides a better SNR than the FT method. The phase determination will always be imperfect, and thus cause a reduction in the visibility amplitude relative to the true instrumental visibility. We illustrate a method for calibrating the visibility amplitude. With long coherent integrations the phase of the visibility can be extracted. We show examples of visibility phases and how to correct them for phase variations in the instrument. Finally, we illustrate a method for measuring stellar diameters very precisely, to one part in at least several hundred.
Armstrong Thomas J.
Gilbreath Charmaine G.
Hindsley Robert
Jorgensen Anders Moller
Mozurkewich David
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