Speckle interferometry with a photon-counting detector

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics

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Angular Resolution, Charge Coupled Devices, Distortion, Imagery, Photons, Speckle Interferometry, Astronomical Models, Fourier Transformation

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This paper deals with solutions to overcome or to correct for the defects of photon-counting detector-intensified CCD (ICCD) in particular - for the purpose of speckle interferometry. Among others, we show how to cope with strong image distortion in the photon-counting case and with the so-called photon-counting hole. The latter is due to the incapacity to detect any pair of close photon-events in the short exposure images. Our photon-counting detector, the CP40 camera (Blazit 1987; Foy 1988a), consists in an ICCD and centroiding electronics. Nevertheless, other photon-counting detectors present a defect similar to the photon-counting hole due to the limited shortest time delay between two consecutive photon-events. A model for the photon-counting hole is proposed which allows to predict its effect on the mean autocorrelation of short-exposure images. Compensation for this defect is obtained using Fourier transform of mean symmetrised cross-correlation instead of autocorrelation for the estimate of the power spectrum.

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