Computer Science
Scientific paper
Jul 2009
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009ycat..21760276v&link_type=abstract
VizieR On-line Data Catalog: J/ApJS/176/276. Originally published in: 2008ApJS..176..276V
Computer Science
Interferometry, Stars: Standard, Infrared Sources
Scientific paper
The Palomar Testbed Interferometer (PTI) archive of observations between 1998 and 2005 is examined for objects appropriate for calibration of optical long-baseline interferometer observations - stars that are predictably pointlike and single. Approximately 1400 nights of data on 1800 objects were examined for this investigation. We compare those observations to an intensively studied object that is a suitable calibrator, HD 217014, and statistically compare each candidate calibrator to that object by computing both a Mahalanobis distance and a principal component analysis. Our hypothesis is that the frequency distribution of visibility data associated with calibrator stars differs from noncalibrator stars such as binary stars. Spectroscopic binaries resolved by PTI, objects known to be unsuitable for calibrator use, are similarly tested to establish detection limits of this approach. From this investigation, we find more than 350 observed stars suitable for use as calibrators (with an additional ~140 being rejected), corresponding to >~95% sky coverage for PTI.
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Akeson Rachel Lynn
Boden Andrew F.
Ciardi David R.
Coyne Jerry
Creech-Eakman Michelle J.
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