Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Dec 1996
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996aas...189.4203c&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, 189th AAS Meeting, #42.03; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 28, p.1324
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
The Palomar Testbed Interferometer (PTI) is a long-baseline infrared interferometer that has been installed at Palomar Mountain, CA. It is funded by NASA to demonstrate technology for the upcoming Keck Interferometer. PTI has a 110-m baseline, 40-cm apertures, and uses active fringe tracking and active delay lines for observations at 2.2 um. PTI is designed with a dual- star architecture to allow simultaneous tracking of a bright target star and phase-referenced observations of a faint astrometric reference star to enable high-accuracy, narrow-angle interferometry astrometry. The ultimate accuracy of this technique is at the tens of microarcsecond level, enabling comprehensive searches for extra-solar planets. At PTI, single-star observations are fully automated for measurements of fringe amplitudes in wideband and spectrometer channels; the spectrometer channels are also used for real-time group-delay fringe centering. Recent instrument upgrades include the addition of a third siderostat to provide additional baselines. Recent engineering tests have been directed at automating dual-star measurements, validating the dual-star technique, and examining the atmospheric limit to astrometry.
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