The MPE imaging beam combiner simulator COSI

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Aug 1994

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Astronomy and Astrophysics 288, 656-664 (1994)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Instrumentation: Interferometers, Miscellaneous, Techniques: Interferometric

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We present first interferograms and reconstructed images obtained with the MPE imaging beam combiner simulator COSI. The purpose of COSI is to simulate the imaging beam combiner at the coherent focus of the ESO VLTI in multi-speckle mode or under conditions of partial or full correction of the single telescope wave front by adaptive optics. COSI consists of a 1 m telescope and a near-infrared continuum light source to simulate the radiation from astronomical objects. Two flat mirrors allow us to use one half of the telescope as a transmitter and the other half as a receiver. In the receiving focus we have installed the MPE speckle camera SHARP, which uses a HgCdTe 256^2^ NICMOS 3 array. A pupil mask over the aperture allows us to simulate various telescope configurations with a beam compression factor of 100 as it will be used for the ESO VLT interferometer. COSI is used to explore NIR array detector properties and their suitability for interferometric measurements and to generate data to explore image reconstruction algorithms. First interferograms of single and multiple objects were taken early this year (1993). Employing various deconvolution and Fourier-inversion methods, a diffraction limited image of the pin-hole sources can be successfully recovered which experimentally demonstrates the feasibility of interferometric imaging with a beam combiner. Thus, we have demonstrated that COSI is an excellent test bed to investigate methods of image recovery and to investigate how the methods are influenced by effects like atmospheric turbulence, expected optical imperfections and detector characteristics.

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