Friday, July 20, 2012

1207.4773 (Florentin Millour et al.)

Three recipes for improving the image quality with optical long-baseline interferometers: BFMC, LFF, \& DPSC    [PDF]

Florentin Millour, Martin Vannier, Anthony Meilland
We present here three recipes for getting better images with optical interferometers. Two of them, Low- Frequencies Filling and Brute-Force Monte Carlo were used in our participation to the Interferometry Beauty Contest this year and can be applied to classical imaging using V 2 and closure phases. These two addition to image reconstruction provide a way of having more reliable images. The last recipe is similar in its principle as the self-calibration technique used in radio-interferometry. We call it also self-calibration, but it uses the wavelength-differential phase as a proxy of the object phase to build-up a full-featured complex visibility set of the observed object. This technique needs a first image-reconstruction run with an available software, using closure-phases and squared visibilities only. We used it for two scientific papers with great success. We discuss here the pros and cons of such imaging technique.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.4773

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