Pupil plane optimization for single-mode multiaxial optical interferometry with a large number of telescopes

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2006-07-18

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0607406v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.372:639-645,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10805.x

Incoming optical interferometers will allow spectro-imaging at high angular resolution. Non-homothetic Fizeau concept combines good sensitivity and high spectral resolution capabilities. However, one critical issue is the design of the beam recombination scheme, at the heart of the instrument. We tackle the possibility of reducing the number of pixels that are coding the fringes by compressing the pupil plane. Shrinking the number of pixels -- which drastically increases with the number of recombined telescopes -- is indeed a key issue that enables to reach higher limiting magnitude, but also allows to lower the required spectral resolution and fasten the fringes reading process. By means of numerical simulations, we study the performances of existing estimators of the visibility with respect to the compression process. We show that, not only the model based estimator lead to better signal to noise ratio (SNR) performances than the Fourier ones, but above all it is the only one which prevent from introducing baseline mixing biases in the visibilities as the pupil plane compression rate increases. Furthermore, we show that moderate compression allows to keep the visibilities SNR unaffected. In the light of these conclusions, we propose an optimized pupil arrangements for 6 and 8 beam recombiners.

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