Fiber optic interferometry: Statistics of visibility and closure phase

Details Fiber optic interferometry: Statistics of visibility and closure phase Fiber optic interferometry: Statistics of visibility and closure phase

2005-08-19

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0508425v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

7 (+4 appendix) pages, 6 (+1) figures, accepted

Scientific paper

10.1364/JOSAA.22.001589

Interferometric observations with three telescopes or more provide two observables: closure phase information together with visibilities measurements. When using single-mode interferometers, both observables have to be redefined in the light of the coupling phenomenon betwe en the incoming wavefront and the fiber. We introduce in this paper the estimator of both so-called modal visibility and modal closure phase. Then, we compute the statistics of the two observables in presence of partial correction by Adaptive Optics. From this theoretical analysis, data reduction process using classical least square minimization is investigated. In the framework of the AMBER instrument, the three beams recombiner of the VLTI, we simulate the observation of a single Gaussian source and we study the performances of the interferometer in terms of diameter measurements. We show that the observation is optimized, i.e. that the Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) of the diameter is maximal, when the full width half maximum (FWHM) of the source is roughly 1/2 of the mean resolution of the interferometer. We finally point out that in the case of an observation with 3 telescopes, neglecting the correlation between the measurements leads to overestimate the SNR by a factor of $\sqrt{2}$. We infer that in any cases, this value is an upper limit.

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