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Kilometric-scale optical imagers seem feasible to realize by intensity interferometry, using telescopes primarily erected for measuring Cherenkov light induced by gamma rays. Planned arrays envision 50--100 telescopes, distributed over some…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-09-30 Hannes Jensen , Dainis Dravins , Stephan LeBohec , Paul D. Nuñez

We present intensity interferometry of the luminous blue variable P Cyg in the light of its H$\alpha$ emission performed with 1\,m-class telescopes. We compare the measured visibility points to synthesized interferometric data based on the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-03 J. -P. Rivet , A. Siciak , E. S. G. de Almeida , F. Vakili , A. Domiciano de Souza , M. Fouché , O. Lai , D. Vernet , R. Kaiser , W. Guerin

Interferometric methods, renowned for their reliability and precision, play a vital role in phase imaging. Interferometry typically requires high coherence and stability between the measured and the reference beam. The presence of rapid…

Optical interferometry is a powerful tool to investigate the close environment of AGB stars. With a spatial resolution of a few milli-arcseconds, it is even possible to image directly the surface of angularly large objects. This is of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-05 X. Haubois , M. Wittkowski , G. Perrin , P. Kervella , S. T. Ridgway , E. Thiébaut

We report on observations of the extended environment of the bright Be star $\gamma$-Cas performed using intensity interferometry measurements within its H$\alpha$ emission line. These observations were performed using a modified version of…

Since pioneering works of Hanbury-Brown and Twiss, intensity-intensity correlations have been widely used in astronomical systems, for example to detect binary stars. They reveal statistics effects and two-particle interference, and offer a…

Results of the speckle-interferometry observations at the 4.1 m Southern Astrophysical Research Telescope (SOAR) obtained during 2023 are presented: 1913 measurements of 1533 resolved pairs or subsystems (median separation 0.16") and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-17 Andrei Tokovinin , Brian D. Mason , Rene A. Mendez , Edgardo Costa

The results of speckle interferometric measurements of binary and multiple stars conducted in 2008 and 2009 at the Blanco and SOAR 4-m telescopes in Chile are presented. A total of 1898 measurements of 1189 resolved pairs or sub-systems and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-21 Andrei Tokovinin , Brian D. Mason , William I. Hartkopf

We present the results of our new low-resolution spectroscopic observations of the young compact planetary nebula Hb 12 performed in 2011-2020 with SAI MSU telescopes. We have measured the intensities of more than 50 nebular emission lines…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-02 N. P. Ikonnikova , I. A. Shaposhnikov , V. F. Esipov , M. A. Burlak , V. P. Arkhipova , A. V. Dodin , S. A. Potanin , N. I. Shatsky

The gravitational wave GW170817 from a binary neutron star merger and the simultaneous electromagnetic detection of the GRB170817A by Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope, opened a new era in the multi-messenger astronomy. Furthermore, the GRBs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-16 Alessandro Drago , Simone Bini , Mariangela Cestelli Guidi , Augusto Marcelli , Valerio Bocci , Emanuele Pace

Polarimetric interferometry is a method allowing the study of the distribution of polarized flux at diffraction-limited resolution. Its basic observable is the ratio $\mathcal{R}$ of the visibilities of the object in two orthogonal…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-27 Boris Safonov , Pavel Lysenko , Maria Goliguzova , Dmitry Cheryasov

Bright single and binary stars were observed at the 4.1-m telescope with a fast electron-multiplication camera in the regime of partial turbulence correction by the visible-light adaptive optics system. We compare the angular resolution…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 A. Tokovinin , R. Cantarutti , R. Tighe , P. Schurter , N. van der Bliek , M. Martinez , E. Mondaca

The Herbig Ae/Be star LkHalpha 101 has been imaged at high angular resolution at a number of wavelengths in the near-infrared (from 1 to 3 microns) using the Keck 1 Telescope, and also observed in the mid-infrared (11.15 microns) using the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. G. Tuthill , J. D. Monnier , W. C. Danchi , D. D. S. Hale , C. H. Townes

Using the adaptive optics facilities at the 200-in Hale and 10-m Keck II, we observed in the near infrared a sample of 12 binary and multiple stars and one open cluster. We used the near diffraction limited images of these systems to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 K. G. Hełminiak , M. Konacki , S. R. Kulkarni , J. Eisner

Speckle interferometric technique is employed to record a series of hundreds of short-exposure images of several close binary stars with sub-arcsecond separation through a narrow band filter at the Cassegrain focus of the 2.34 meter (m)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. K. Saha , V. Chinnappan , L. Yeswanth , P. Anbazhagan

Context: To investigate the joint evolution of active galactic nuclei and star formation in the Universe. Aims: In the 1.4 GHz survey with the Australia Telescope Compact Array of the Chandra Deep Field South and the European Large Area ISO…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Middelberg , R. P. Norris , S. Tingay , M. Y. Mao , C. J. Phillips , A. W. Hotan

Recent atomic physics calculations for Si II are employed within the Cloudy modelling code to analyse Hubble Space Telescope (HST) STIS ultraviolet spectra of three cool stars, Beta-Geminorum, Alpha-Centauri A and B, as well as previously…

Relative astrometric measurements with a precision far better than 1 mas (milli-arcsec) are commonly regarded as the domain of interferometry. Pioneering work by Pravdo & Shaklan (1996), made in the optical, reached a precision of 150…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Andreas Seifahrt , Tristan Roell , Ralph Neuhaeuser

We show that distances of objects at cosmological distances can be measured directly using interferometry. Our approach to interferometric parallax comes from analysis of 4-point amplitude and intensity correlations that can be generated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Pankaj Jain , John P. Ralston

Context: Some stellar objects exhibit very narrow spectral lines in the visible range additional to their blackbody radiation. Natural lasing has been suggested as a mechanism to explain narrow lines in Wolf-Rayet stars. However, the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-26 Peng Kian Tan , Christian Kurtsiefer