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Imaging Optical interferometry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

R.S. Simon ,
K.J. Johnston ,
D. Mozurkewich ,
K.W. Weiler ,
D.J. Hutter ,
J.T. Armstrong  and
T.S. Brackett
R.S. Simon
Affiliation:
Interferometrics Inc., 8150 Leesburg Pike, Vienna, VA 22182-2799
K.J. Johnston
Affiliation:
Center for Advanced Space Sensing, Code 4200, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. 20375-5000
D. Mozurkewich
Affiliation:
Center for Advanced Space Sensing, Code 4200, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. 20375-5000
K.W. Weiler
Affiliation:
Center for Advanced Space Sensing, Code 4200, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. 20375-5000
D.J. Hutter
Affiliation:
Astrometry Division, US Naval Observatory, 34th & Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20392-5100
J.T. Armstrong
Affiliation:
Universities Space Research Association, 600 Maryland Ave., S.W., Suite 303, Washington D.C. 20024
T.S. Brackett
Affiliation:
Interferometrics Inc., 8150 Leesburg Pike, Vienna, VA 22182-2799

Abstract

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Interferometry at optical wavelengths is very similar to radio interferometry, once the fundamental differences in detectors are accounted for. The Mount Wilson Mark III optical interferometer has been used for optical interferometry of stars and stellar systems. Success with the Mark III has lead to the current program at the Naval Research Laboratory to build the Big Optical Array (BOA), which will be an imaging interferometer. Imaging simulations show that BOA will be able to produce images of complex stellar systems, with a resolution as fine as 0.2 milliarcseconds.

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International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 131: Radio Interferometry: Theory, Techniques, and Applications , 1991 , pp. 358 - 367
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1991

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