Low light level CCDs and visibility parameter estimation

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2003-10-15

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0310407v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 347 (2004) 1187

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

12 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.07283.x

Recently, low light level charge coupled devices (L3CCDs) capable of on-chip gain have been developed, leading to sub-electron effective readout noise, allowing for the detection of single photon events. Optical interferometry usually requires the detection of faint signals at high speed and so L3CCDs are an obvious choice for these applications. Here we analyse the effect that using an L3CCD has on visibility parameter estimation (amplitude and triple product phase), including situations where the L3CCD raw output is processed in an attempt to reduce the effect of stochastic multiplication noise introduced by the on-chip gain process. We establish that under most conditions, fringe parameters are estimated accurately, whilst at low light levels, a bias correction which we determine here, may need to be applied to the estimate of fringe visibility amplitude. These results show that L3CCDs are potentially excellent detectors for astronomical interferometry at optical wavelengths.

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