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We show star images obtained with a miniature ``densified pupil imaging interferometer'' also called a hyper-telescope. The formation of such images violates a ``golden rule of imaging interferometers'' which appeared to forbid the use of…

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Interferometry is a powerful technique for making sensitive, high-fidelity images of the sky, but is limited in its ability to measure extended or diffuse emission. Better images of extended astronomical objects can be obtained by…

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Pupil mapping is a promising and unconventional new method for high contrast imaging being considered for terrestrial exoplanet searches. It employs two (or more) specially designed aspheric mirrors to create a high-contrast amplitude…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Ruslan Belikov , N. Jeremy Kasdin , Robert J. Vanderbei

Radio interferometry enables high-resolution imaging of astronomical radio sources by synthesizing a large effective aperture from an array of antennas and solving a deconvolution problem to reconstruct the image. Deep learning has emerged…

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Integrated optics are used to achieve astronomical interferometry inside robust and compact materials, improving the instrument's stability and sensitivity. In order to perform differential phase measurements at the H$\alpha$ line (656.3…

Radio interferometry allows astronomers to probe small spatial scales that are often inaccessible with single-dish instruments. However, recovering the radio sky from an interferometer is an ill-posed deconvolution problem that astronomers…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-25 Liam Connor , Katherine L. Bouman , Vikram Ravi , Gregg Hallinan

Incoming optical interferometers will allow spectro-imaging at high angular resolution. Non-homothetic Fizeau concept combines good sensitivity and high spectral resolution capabilities. However, one critical issue is the design of the beam…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jean-Baptiste Le Bouquin , Eric Tatulli

FIRST (Fibered Imager foR a Single Telescope instrument) is a post-AO instrument that enables high contrast imaging and spectroscopy at spatial scales below the diffraction limit. FIRST achieves sensitivity and accuracy by a unique…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-15 K. Barjot , E. Huby , S. Vievard , N. Cvetojevic , S. Lacour , G. Martin , V. Deo , V. Lapeyrere , D. Rouan , O. Guyon , J. Lozi , N. Jovanovic , C. Cassagenettes , G. Perrin , F. Marchis , G. Duchêne , T. Kotani

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

Radio astronomy plays a crucial role in understanding the universe, particularly within the realm of non-thermal astrophysics. Images of celestial objects are derived from the signals (called visibility) measured by radio telescopes. Such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Kai Cheng , Ruoqi Wang , Qiong Luo

The Sydney University Stellar Interferometer (SUSI) now incorporates a new beam combiner, called the Microarcsecond University of Sydney Companion Astrometry instrument (MUSCA), for the purpose of high precision differential astrometry of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-02 Y. Kok , M. J. Ireland , P. G. Tuthill , J. G. Robertson , B. A. Warrington , A. C. Rizzuto , W. J. Tango

Astronomical optical interferometers sample the Fourier transform of the intensity distribution of a source at the observation wavelength. Because of rapid perturbations caused by atmospheric turbulence, the phases of the complex Fourier…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-07 Antony Schutz , André Ferrari , David Mary , Férréol Soulez , Éric Thiébaut , Martin Vannier

Direct imaging is an active research topic in astronomy for the detection and the characterization of young sub-stellar objects. The very high contrast between the host star and its companions makes the observations particularly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-12 Olivier Flasseur , Théo Bodrito , Julien Mairal , Jean Ponce , Maud Langlois , Anne-Marie Lagrange

Because of atmospheric turbulence, obtaining high angular resolution images with a high dynamic range is difficult even in the near infrared domain of wavelengths. We propose a novel technique to overcome this issue. The fundamental idea is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Perrin , S. Lacour , J. Woillez , E. Thiebaut

Wide field interferometry has become a subject of increasing interest in the recent years. New methods have been suggested in order to avoid the drawbacks of the standard wide-field method (homothetic mapping) which is not applicable when…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Montilla , J. Sellos , S. F. Pereira , J. J. M. Braat

We present the curation and verification of a new combined optical and near infrared dataset for cosmology and astrophysics, derived from the combination of $ugri$-band imaging from the Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS) and $ZY\!J\!H\!K_{\rm…

Conoscopic interferometry is a promising detection technique for ultrafast acoustics. By focusing a probe beam through a birefringent crystal before passing it through a polarizer, conoscopic interferences sculpt the spatial profile of the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-11-08 Martin Robin , Ruben Guis , Mustafa Umit Arabul , Zili Zhou , Nitesh Pandey , Gerard J. Verbiest

Clusters of galaxies are used to map the large-scale structures in the universe and as probe of universe evolution. They can be observed through the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect. At this respect the spectro-imaging at low resolution…

Mass and radius measurements of stars are important inputs for models of stellar structure. Binary stars are of particular interest in this regard, because astrometry and spectroscopy of a binary together provide the masses of both stars as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-22 Km Nitu Rai , Soumen Basak , Prasenjit Saha

The Sydney University Stellar Interferometer (SUSI) has two beam combiners, i.e. the Precision Astronomical Visible Observations (PAVO) and the Microarcsecond University of Sydney Companion Astrometry (MUSCA). The primary beam combiner,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Yitping Kok , Vicente Maestro , Michael J Ireland , Peter G Tuthill , J Gordon Robertson