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Optical interferometers provide multiple wavelength measurements. In order to fully exploit the spectral and spatial resolution of these instruments, new algorithms for image reconstruction have to be developed. Early attempts to deal with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Éric Thiébaut , Ferréol Soulez , Loïc Denis

Astronomical imaging can be broadly classified into two types. The first type is amplitude interferometry, which includes conventional optical telescopes and Very Large Baseline Interferometry (VLBI). The second type is intensity…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-04 Manuel Bojer , Zixin Huang , Sebastian Karl , Stefan Richter , Pieter Kok , J. von Zanthier

Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) astrometry is a well established technique for achieving $\pm10~\mu$as parallax accuracies at frequencies well above 10~GHz. At lower frequencies, uncompensated interferometer delays associated with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-15 Lucas J. Hyland , Mark J. Reid , Simon P. Ellingsen , Maria J. Rioja , Richard Dodson , Gabor Orosz , Colin R. Masson , Jamie M. McCallum

Optical stellar intensity interferometry with air Cherenkov telescope arrays, composed of nearly 100 telescopes, will provide means to measure fundamental stellar parameters and also open the possibility of model-independent imaging. In…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Paul D. Nunez , Richard Holmes , David Kieda , Stephan LeBohec

Very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) makes it possible to recover images of astronomical sources with extremely high angular resolution. Most recently, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has extended VLBI to short millimeter wavelengths…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-05 Katherine L. Bouman , Michael D. Johnson , Adrian V. Dalca , Andrew A. Chael , Freek Roelofs , Sheperd S. Doeleman , William T. Freeman

Fourier Transform Interferometry (FTI) is an appealing Hyperspectral (HS) imaging modality for many applications demanding high spectral resolution, e.g., in fluorescence microscopy. However, the effective resolution of FTI is limited by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-31 A. Moshtaghpour , L. Jacques , V. Cambareri , P. Antoine , M. Roblin

The major cornerstone of future ground-based astronomy is imaging and spectroscopy at the diffraction limit using adaptive optics. To exploit the potential of current AO systems, we have begun a survey around bright stars to study…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. I. Davies , M. Lehnert , A. J. Baker , S. Rabien

We discuss the technique of Wide-field imaging as it applies to Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI). In the past VLBI data sets were usually averaged so severely that the field-of-view was typically restricted to regions extending a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. A. Garrett , R. W. Porcas , A. Pedlar , T. W. B. Muxlow , S. T. Garrington

In this paper, we study the feasibility of obtaining near-infrared spectra of bright extrasolar planets with the 2nd generation VLTI Spectro-Imager instrument (VSI), which has the required angular resolution to resolve nearby hot Extrasolar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Renard , O. Absil , J. -P. Berger , X. Bonfils , T. Forveille , F. Malbet

With the next generation of interferometric telescopes, such as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), the need for highly computationally efficient reconstruction techniques is particularly acute. The challenge in designing learned, data-driven…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-17 Matthijs Mars , Marta M. Betcke , Jason D. McEwen

The ESO Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) is one of the leading interferometric facilities. It is equipped with several 8.2 and 1.8m telescopes, a large number of baselines up to 200m, and with several subsystems designed to enable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Richichi , I. Percheron

Very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) is a technique for imaging celestial radio emissions by simultaneously observing a source from telescopes distributed across Earth. The challenges in reconstructing images from fine angular…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-08 Katherine L. Bouman , Michael D. Johnson , Daniel Zoran , Vincent L. Fish , Sheperd S. Doeleman , William T. Freeman

Context:Optical interferometry is at a key development stage. ESO's VLTI has established a stable, robust infrastructure for long-baseline interferometry for general astronomical observers. The present second-generation instruments offer a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 B. Lopez , S. Lagarde , R. G. Petrov , W. Jaffe , P. Antonelli , F. Allouche , P. Berio , A. Matter , A. Meilland , F. Millour , S. Robbe-Dubois , Th. Henning , G. Weigelt , A. Glindemann , T. Agocs , Ch. Bailet , U. Beckmann , F. Bettonvil , R. van Boekel , P. Bourget , Y. Bresson , P. Bristow , P. Cruzalèbes , E. Eldswijk , Y. Fanteï Caujolle , J. C. González Herrera , U. Graser , P. Guajardo , M. Heininger , K. -H. Hofmann , G. Kroes , W. Laun , M. Lehmitz , C. Leinert , K. Meisenheimer , S. Morel , U. Neumann , C. Paladini , I. Percheron , M. Riquelme , M. Schoeller , Ph. Stee , L. Venema , J. Woillez , G. Zins , P. Ábrahám , S. Abadie , R. Abuter , M. Accardo , T. Adler , J. Alonso , J. -C. Augereau , A. Böhm , G. Bazin , J. Beltran , A. Bensberg , W. Boland , R. Brast , L. Burtscher , R. Castillo , A. Chelli , C. Cid , J. -M. Clausse , C. Connot , R. D. Conzelmann , W. -C. Danchi , M. Delbo , J. Drevon , C. Dominik , A. van Duin , M. Ebert , F. Eisenhauer , S. Flament , R. Frahm , V. Gámez Rosas , A. Gabasch , A. Gallenne , E. Garces , P. Girard , A. Glazenborg , F. Y. J. Gonté , F. Guitton , M. de Haan , H. Hanenburg , X. Haubois , V. Hocdé , M. Hogerheijde , R. ter Horst , J. Hron , C. A. Hummel , N. Hubin , R. Huerta , J. Idserda , J. W. Isbell , D. Ives , G. Jakob , A. Jaskó , L. Jochum , L. Klarmann , R. Klein , J. Kragt , S. Kuindersma , E. Kokoulina , L. Labadie , S. Lacour , J. Leftley , R. Le Poole , J. -L. Lizon , M. Lopez , A. Mérand , A. Marcotto , N. Mauclert , T. Maurer , L. H. Mehrgan , J. Meisner , K. Meixner , M. Mellein , J. L. Menut , L. Mohr , L. Mosoni , R. Navarro , E. Nussbaum , L. Pallanca , E. Pantin , L. Pasquini , T. Phan Duc , J. -U. Pott , E. Pozna , A. Richichi , A. Ridinger , F. Rigal , Th. Rivinius , R. Roelfsema , R. -R. Rohloff , S. Rousseau , D. Salabert , D. Schertl , N. Schuhler , M. Schuil , K. Shabun , A. Soulain , C. Stephan , P. Toledo , K. Tristram , N. Tromp , F. Vakili , J. Varga , J. Vinther , L. B. F. M. Waters , M. Wittkowski , S. Wolf , F. Wrhel , G. Yoffe

The recent development of $\theta\mhyphen\theta$ techniques in pulsar scintillometry has opened the door for new high resolution imaging techniques of the scattering medium. By solving the phase retrieval problem and recovering the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-09 Daniel Baker , Walter Brisken , Marten H. van Kerkwijk , Rik van Lieshout , Ue-Li Pen

Flying on board the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) above Earth's turbulent atmosphere, the Aperture Masking Interferometer (AMI) on the NIRISS instrument is the highest-resolution infrared interferometer ever placed in space. However,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-17 Max Charles , Louis Desdoigts , Benjamin Pope , Peter Tuthill , Dori Blakely , Doug Johnstone , Shrishmoy Ray , K. E. Saavik Ford , Barry McKernan , Anand Sivaramakrishnan

Cosmology with large interferometric telescopes is a rich and largely unexplored subject, involving three types of measurement: astrometric measurement of absolute distances and proper motions, dispersions of relative proper motions, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 David Tytler

A method is described for the reconstruction of the amplitude and phase of the object exit wave function by phase-plate transmission electron microscopy. The proposed method can be considered as in-line holography and requires three images,…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-05-24 B. Gamm , M. Dries , K. Schultheiss , H. Blank , A. Rosenauer , R. R. Schröder , D. Gerthsen

This paper reported a general noninterferometric high-accuracy quantitative phase imaging (QPI) method for arbitrary complex valued objects. Given by a typical 4f optical configuration as the imaging system, three frames of small-window…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-05 Jianhui Huang , An Pan , Huiliang Jin , Guoxiang Meng , Qian Ye

The current status of the high spatial resolution imaging interferometry in optical astronomy is reviewed in the light of theoretical explanation, as well as of experimental constraints that exist in the present day technology. The basic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. K. Saha

After decades of experimental projects and fast-paced technical advances, optical / infrared (O/IR) interferometry has seen a revolution in the last years. The GRAVITY instrument at the VLTI with four 8 meter telescopes reaches thousand…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-02 Frank Eisenhauer , John D. Monnier , Oliver Pfuhl