Two, three, four, or six telescopes with phase referencing or closure phase relations: the best tactics for interferometric image reconstruction

Nuno Gomes; Paulo J. V. Garcia; Éric Thiébaut

doi:10.1117/12.2056545

24 July 2014 Two, three, four, or six telescopes with phase referencing or closure phase relations: the best tactics for interferometric image reconstruction

Nuno Gomes, Paulo J. V. Garcia, Éric Thiébaut

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Proceedings Volume 9146, Optical and Infrared Interferometry IV; 91462M (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2056545
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2014, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Abstract

Two simulated astronomical objects (a star cluster, and a young stellar object) were mock observed with the VLTI for different array configurations and instruments, and their images reconstructed and compared. The aim of the work is to infer when/if phase referencing with less telescopes is a better choice over closure phases with more telescopes. Three scenarios were put under scrutiny: Phase Referencing (PhR) with 2 telescopes vs Closure Phase (CPh) with 3 telescopes, PhR with 3 telescopes vs CPh with 4 telescopes, and PhR with 4 telescopes vs CPh with 6 telescopes. The number of nights is kept fixed for a given PhR vs CPh configuration. The UV -coverage was improved for the PhR case, by uniformly paving the (u, v) plane while keeping fixed the total number of sampled spatial frequencies. For the majority of the configurations, the results point to comparable performances of phase referencing and closure phases, when the UV-space is judiciously chosen.

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Nuno Gomes, Paulo J. V. Garcia, and Éric Thiébaut "Two, three, four, or six telescopes with phase referencing or closure phase relations: the best tactics for interferometric image reconstruction", Proc. SPIE 9146, Optical and Infrared Interferometry IV, 91462M (24 July 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2056545

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