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Optical long-baseline interferometry is a unique and powerful technique for astronomical research. Since the 1980’s (with I2T, GI2T, Mark I to III, SUSI, ...), optical interferometers have produced an increasing number of scientific papers covering various fields of astrophysics. As current interferometric facilities are reaching their maturity, we take the opportunity in this paper to summarize the conclusions of a few key meetings, workshops, and conferences dedicated to interferometry. We present the most persistent recommendations related to science cases and discuss some key technological developments required to address them. In the era of extremely large telescopes, optical long-baseline interferometers will remain crucial to probe the smallest spatial scales and make breakthrough discoveries. 相似文献
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S. Wolf F. Malbet R. Alexander J.-P. Berger M. Creech-Eakman G. Duchêne A. Dutrey C. Mordasini E. Pantin F. Pont J.-U. Pott E. Tatulli L. Testi 《Astronomy and Astrophysics Review》2012,20(1):1-83
We present a review of the interplay between the evolution of circumstellar disks and the formation of planets, both from the perspective of theoretical models and dedicated observations. Based on this, we identify and discuss fundamental questions concerning the formation and evolution of circumstellar disks and planets which can be addressed in the near future with optical and infrared long-baseline interferometers. Furthermore, the importance of complementary observations with long-baseline (sub)millimeter interferometers and high-sensitivity infrared observations is outlined. 相似文献
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F. Malbet 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2003,286(1-2):131-144
The study of Young Stellar Objects (YSOs) is one of the most exciting topics that can be undertaken by long baseline optical
interferometry. The magnitudes of these objects are at the edge of capabilities of current optical interferometers, limiting
the studies to a few dozen, but are well within the capability of coming large aperture interferometers like the VLT Interferometer,
the Keck Interferometer, the Large Binocular Telescope or 'OHANA. The milli-arcsecond spatial resolution reached by interferometry
probes the very close environment of young stars, down to a tenth of an astronomical unit. In this paper, I review the different
aspects of star formation that can be tackled by interferometry: circumstellar disks, multiplicity, jets. I present recent
observations performed with operational infrared interferometers, IOTA, PTI and ISI, and I show why in the next future one
will extend these studies with large aperture interferometers.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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Joel Sanchez-Bermudez Florentin Millour Fabien Baron Roy van Boekel Laurent Bourgès Gilles Duvert Paulo J. V. Garcia Nuno Gomes Karl-Heinz Hofmann Thomas Henning Jacob W. Isbell Bruno Lopez Alexis Matter J-Uwe Pott Dieter Schertl Eric Thiébaut Gerd Weigelt John Young 《Experimental Astronomy》2018,46(3):457-473
During the last two decades, the first generation of beam combiners at the Very Large Telescope Interferometer has proved the importance of optical interferometry for high-angular resolution astrophysical studies in the near- and mid-infrared. With the advent of 4-beam combiners at the VLTI, the u ? v coverage per pointing increases significantly, providing an opportunity to use reconstructed images as powerful scientific tools. Therefore, interferometric imaging is already a key feature of the new generation of VLTI instruments, as well as for other interferometric facilities like CHARA and JWST. It is thus imperative to account for the current image reconstruction capabilities and their expected evolutions in the coming years. Here, we present a general overview of the current situation of optical interferometric image reconstruction with a focus on new wavelength-dependent information, highlighting its main advantages and limitations. As an Appendix we include several cookbooks describing the usage and installation of several state-of-the art image reconstruction packages. To illustrate the current capabilities of the software available to the community, we recovered chromatic images, from simulated MATISSE data, using the MCMC software SQUEEZE. With these images, we aim at showing the importance of selecting good regularization functions and their impact on the reconstruction. 相似文献
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M. Vannier R. G. Petrov B. Lopez F. Millour 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2006,367(2):825-837
We present the high angular resolution technique of colour-differential interferometry for direct detection of extrasolar giant planets (EGPs). The measurement of differential phase with long-baseline ground-based interferometers in the near-infrared could allow the observation of several hot giant extrasolar planets in tight orbit around the nearby stars, and thus yield their low- or mid-resolution spectroscopy, complete orbital data set and mass. Estimates of potentially achievable signal-to-noise ratios are presented for a number of planets already discovered by indirect methods. The limits from the instrumental and atmospheric instability are discussed, and a subsequent observational strategy is proposed. 相似文献
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F. Patru D. Mourard O. Lardière S. Lagarde 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2007,376(3):1047-1053
Long baseline interferometry is now a mature technique in the optical domain. Current interferometers are, highly limited in, number of subapertures and concepts are being developed for future generations of very large optical arrays and especially with the goal of direct imaging. In this paper, we study the effects of introducing single-mode fibres in direct imaging optical interferometers. We show how the flexibility of optical fibres is well adapted to the pupil densification scheme. We study the effects of the truncation of the Gaussian beams in the imaging process, either in the Fizeau mode or in the densified pupil mode or in the densified image mode. Finally, in the pupil densification configuration, we identify an optimum of the diaphragm width. This optimum maximizes the on-axis irradiance and corresponds to a trade-off between the loss of transmission and the efficiency of the densification. 相似文献
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回顾了光干涉与综合孔径技术发展的历史和现状，分析了国际上用于天文观测的一些著名地基和空基光干涉仪的技术特点，介绍了光干涉与综合孔径技术的发展，以及在光学综合孔径技术领域所发展的光纤与集成光学等新技术，简要介绍了近年来我国开展光干涉与综合孔径技术的进展情况。针对光干涉与综合孔径技术的发展前景和国内外技术发展趋势，发出了加快发展我国光干涉与综合孔径技术的呼吁。 相似文献
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郭红锋 《紫金山天文台台刊》2003,(1)
本文简单介绍了光干涉与综合孔径技术发展的历史、国际上用于天文观测的一些著名光干涉仪的技术特点和进展、以及近年来我国开展的与光干涉 ,综合孔径技术有关的工作 ,最后简要介绍了在光学综合孔径技术领域所发展的光纤与集成光学等新技术 相似文献
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Intensity interferometry removes the stringent requirements on mechanical precision and atmospheric corrections that plague all amplitude interferometry techniques at the cost of severely limited sensitivity. A new idea we recently introduced, very high redundancy, alleviates this problem. It enables the relatively simple construction (∼1 cm mechanical precision) of a ground-based astronomical facility able to transform a two-dimensional field of point-like sources to a three-dimensional distribution of microarcsec resolved systems, each imaged in several optical bands. Each system will also have its high-resolution residual timing, high-quality (inside each band) spectra and light curve, emergent flux, effective temperature, polarization effects and perhaps some thermodynamic properties, all directly measured. All the above attributes can be measured in a single observation run of such a dedicated facility. We conclude that after three decades of abandonment, optical intensity interferometry deserves another review, also as a ground-based alternative to the science goals of space interferometers. 相似文献
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SECCHI-EUVI telescopes provide the first EUV images enabling a 3D reconstruction of solar coronal structures. We present a
stereoscopic reconstruction method based on the Velociraptor algorithm, a multiscale optical-flow method that estimates displacement maps in sequences of EUV images. Following earlier
calibration on sequences of SOHO-EIT data, we apply the algorithm to retrieve depth information from the two STEREO viewpoints
using the SECCHI-EUVI telescope. We first establish a simple reconstruction formula that gives the radial distance to the
centre of the Sun of a point identified both in EUVI-A and EUVI-B from the separation angle and the displacement map. We select
pairs of images taken in the 30.4 nm passband of EUVI-A and EUVI-B, and apply a rigid transform from the EUVI-B image in order
to set both images in the same frame of reference. The optical flow computation provides displacement maps from which we reconstruct
a dense map of depths using the stereoscopic reconstruction formula. Finally, we discuss the estimation of the height of an
erupting filament. 相似文献
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Enrico Lorenzini Claudio Bombardelli Mario Cosmo Martin Harwit David Leisawitz Rodger Farley Stephen Rinehart David Quinn David Miller 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2006,302(1-4):225-239
Through the continuing development of improved detectors and detector arrays, far-infrared/submillimeter astronomical space
missions have had enormous successes in recent years. Despite these advances, the diffraction-limited angular resolving power
has remained virtually constant. The advent of telescopes with apertures of several meters will improve this capability, but
will still leave image resolution many orders of magnitude poorer than in most other spectral ranges. Here we point out that
the only foreseeable way to improve image quality to rival that of modern optical telescopes will be with interferometers
whose light collectors are connected by tethers. After making the scientific case for high spatial resolution far-infrared/submillimeter
imaging and the use of interferometry as the most immediate way of producing results, we discuss recent advances in dynamic
analysis and control of tethered formations, and argue that the further development and testing of tethers in space is a first
step toward providing improved far-infrared/submillimeter angular resolution and astronomical image quality. 相似文献
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斑点干涉成像技术是克服大气湍流影响,提高地面大口径望远镜分辨本领的有效途径之一。该技术利用斑点相机拍摄一系列的短曝光像,使得大气湍流冻结,再经过图像处理获得高分辨率重建像。该技术设备简单,易于实现,很快在观测天文学中得到了广泛的应用,尤其是对双星的研究。首先回顾了天文高分辨率重建技术的发展,并介绍了相关研究成果。描述了几种典型的斑点干涉成像处理方法及其优缺点。对图像噪声类型及滤波方法进行了分析。在上海天文台1．56m望远镜上开展了双星斑点干涉观测实验,目标星等4～7mag,双星目标星等差小于2。分别采用斑点干涉术和迭代位移叠加法成功实现了双星目标的高分辨率成像,初步证明了在1．56m望远镜上进行斑点干涉成像实验,能够达到接近望远镜衍射极限的分辨率水平。 相似文献
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J.W. Keen D_f. Buscher P.J. Warner 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2001,326(4):1381-1386
We use a numerical simulation to investigate the effectiveness of pinhole spatial filters for optical/IR interferometers and to compare them with single-mode optical fibre spatial filters and interferometers without spatial filters. We show that fringe visibility measurements in interferometers containing spatial filters are much less affected by changing seeing conditions than equivalent measurements without spatial filters. This reduces visibility calibration uncertainties, and hence can reduce the need for frequent observations of separate astronomical sources for calibration of visibility measurements. We also show that spatial filters can increase the signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) of visibility measurements and that pinhole filters give SNRs within 17 per cent of the values obtained with single-mode fibres for aperture diameters up to 3 r 0 . Given the simplicity of the use of pinhole filters we suggest that it represents a competitive, if not optimal, technique for spatial filtering in many current and next generation interferometers. 相似文献
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Y. Wiaux L. Jacques G. Puy A. M. M. Scaife P. Vandergheynst 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2009,395(3):1733-1742
Radio interferometry probes astrophysical signals through incomplete and noisy Fourier measurements. The theory of compressed sensing demonstrates that such measurements may actually suffice for accurate reconstruction of sparse or compressible signals. We propose new generic imaging techniques based on convex optimization for global minimization problems defined in this context. The versatility of the framework notably allows introduction of specific prior information on the signals, which offers the possibility of significant improvements of reconstruction relative to the standard local matching pursuit algorithm CLEAN used in radio astronomy. We illustrate the potential of the approach by studying reconstruction performances on simulations of two different kinds of signals observed with very generic interferometric configurations. The first kind is an intensity field of compact astrophysical objects. The second kind is the imprint of cosmic strings in the temperature field of the cosmic microwave background radiation, of particular interest for cosmology. 相似文献
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The direct images of giant extrasolar planets recently obtained around several main sequence stars represent a major step
in the study of planetary systems. These high-dynamic range images are among the most striking results obtained by the current
generation of high-angular resolution instruments which will be superseded by a new generation of instruments in the coming
years. It is, therefore, an appropriate time to review the contributions of high-angular resolution visible/infrared techniques
to the rapidly growing field of extrasolar planetary science. During the last 20 years, the advent of the Hubble Space Telescope,
of adaptive optics on 4- to 10-m class ground-based telescopes, and of long-baseline infrared stellar interferometry, has
opened a new viewpoint on the formation and evolution of planetary systems. By spatially resolving the optically thick circumstellar
discs of gas and dust where planets are forming, these instruments have considerably improved our models of early circumstellar
environments and have thereby provided new constraints on planet formation theories. High-angular resolution techniques are
also directly tracing the mechanisms governing the early evolution of planetary embryos and the dispersal of optically thick
material around young stars. Finally, mature planetary systems are being studied with an unprecedented accuracy thanks to
single-pupil imaging and interferometry, precisely locating dust populations and putting into light a whole new family of
long-period giant extrasolar planets. 相似文献
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首先介绍了斑点图形成机制以及获取方法,并借助计算机模拟了斑点图的生成。然后重点描述斑点图的图像重建方法,包括频率域和空间域重建方法。在频率域重建方法部分依次详细叙述了用于复原模信息的斑点干涉法和用于复原相位信息的由模复原相位法、Knox-Thompson法、斑点掩模法;空间域重建方法部分介绍了典型的LWH法和迭代位移叠加法;另外,盲消卷积法也为斑点图重建提供了新的思路,文章对此方法也做了介绍;特别地,还对国内在该领域的相关工作做了介绍;关于斑点图重建方法在天文学、天体物理学等领域的应用,文章做了有针对性的介绍;最后一章是斑点图图像重建方法的总结。 相似文献
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For reliable event reconstruction of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs), calibration of the optical throughput efficiency is required. Within current facilities, this is achieved through the use of ring shaped images generated by muons. Here, a complementary approach is explored, achieving cross calibration of elements of IACT arrays through pairwise comparisons between telescopes, focussing on its applicability to the upcoming Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). Intercalibration of telescopes of a particular type using eventwise comparisons of shower image amplitudes has previously been demonstrated to recover the relative telescope optical responses. A method utilising the reconstructed energy as an alternative to image amplitude is presented, enabling cross calibration between telescopes of varying types within an IACT array. Monte Carlo studies for two plausible CTA layouts have shown that this calibration procedure recovers the relative telescope response efficiencies at the few per cent level. 相似文献
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F. Patru N. Tarmoul D. Mourard O. Lardière 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2009,395(4):2363-2372
In the future, optical stellar interferometers will provide true images thanks to larger number of telescopes and to advanced cophasing subsystems. These conditions are required to have sufficient resolution elements (resel) in the image and to provide direct images in the hypertelescope mode. It has already been shown that hypertelescopes provide snapshot images with a significant gain in sensitivity without inducing any loss of the useful field of view for direct imaging applications. This paper aims at studying the properties of the point spread functions of future large arrays using the hypertelescope mode. Numerical simulations have been performed and criteria have been defined to study the image properties. It is shown that the choice of the configuration of the array is a trade-off between the resolution, the halo level and the field of view. A regular pattern of the array of telescopes optimizes the image quality (low halo level and maximum encircled energy in the central peak), but decreases the useful field of view. Moreover, a non-redundant array is less sensitive to the space aliasing effect than a redundant array. 相似文献
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Gianfranco Bertone 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2007,309(1-4):505-515
We review the status of indirect Dark Matter searches, focusing in particular on the connection with gamma-ray Astrophysics. After a brief introduction where we review the strong motivations for indirect searches, we tackle the question of how one can “discover” Dark Matter particles with astrophysical observations. To this purpose, I will discuss some recent conflicting claims that have generated some confusion in the field, and present new strategies that may provide robust enough evidence to claim discovery, based only on astrophysical observations. 相似文献