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Interferometry has brought many new constraints in optical astronomy in the recent years. A major leap in this field is the opening of large interferometric facilities like the Very Large Telescope Interferometer and the Keck Interferometer…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Malbet

Stellar intensity interferometry (SII) is based on the correlation of the light intensity fluctuations of a star detected at two or more telescopes, with no need to combine the collected photons directly. A measurement of the correlation in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-30 Alessia Spolon , Michele Fiori , Luca Zampieri , Marco Landoni

A new generation of optical intensity interferometers are emerging in recent years taking advantage of the existing infrastructure of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs). The MAGIC SII (Stellar Intensity Interferometer) in La…

Interferometric measurements with arrays of radio antennas are a powerful and widely used technique in astronomy. Recently, this technique has been revisited for the reconstruction of extensive air showers [1]. This radio-interferometric…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-16 Felix Schlüter , Tim Huege

An approach is demonstrated for comparing the temperature of the upper atmosphere obtained by ground-based and satellite methods. A method for calibrating ground-based instruments (Fabry-Perot interferometer) based on the data obtained and…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2020-11-03 A. V. Saunkin , R. V. Vasilyev , M. F. Artamonov

In 2018-2019 the VERITAS VHE gamma-ray observatory was augmented with highspeed optical instrumentation and continuous data recording electronics to create a sensitive Stellar Intensity Interferometry (SII) observatory, VERITAS-SII. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-09 D. B. Kieda , VERITAS Collaboration , S. LeBohec , R cardon

Context. The GRAVITY instrument on the ESO VLTI is setting a new mark in the landscape of optical interferometers. Long exposures are possible for the first time in this wavelength domain, delivering a dramatic improvement for astrophysics.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-08 Guy Perrin , Julien Woillez

The VERITAS Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescope (IACT) array was augmented in 2019 with high-speed focal plane electronics to allow its use for Stellar Intensity Interferometry (SII) observations. Since January 2019, the VERITAS Stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-24 David Kieda , Jonathan Davis , Tugdual LeBohec , Mike Lisa , Nolan K. Matthews

We propose and demonstrate a new scheme for atom interferometry, using light pulses inside an optical cavity as matter wave beamsplitters. The cavity provides power enhancement, spatial filtering, and a precise beam geometry, enabling new…

We report first white-light interferograms obtained with an integrated optics beam combiner on a glass plate. These results demonstrate the feasability of single-mode interferometric beam combination with integrated optics technology…

In this work we present an observational technique and a detailed analysis of the stellar interferograms produced by three bright stars: Betelgeuse, Rigel and Sirius. It is shown that the atmospheric turbulence is responsible for the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-13 P. Rodriguez-Ovalle , A. Mendi-Martos , A . Angulo-Manzanas , I. Reyes-Rodriguez , M. Perez-Arrieta , M. A. Illarramendi , A. Sanchez-Lavega

We describe a matter-wave Sagnac interferometer using Bose condensed atoms confined in a time-orbiting potential trap. Compared to our previous implementation [Moan et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 120403 (2020)], our new apparatus provides…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-01-11 M. Beydler , E. R. Moan , Z. Luo , Z. Chu , C. A. Sackett

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

A radio interferometer indirectly measures the intensity distribution of the sky over the celestial sphere. Since measurements are made over an irregularly sampled Fourier plane, synthesising an intensity image from interferometric…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-18 Daniel Muscat

Recent proposals have been advanced to apply imaging air Cherenkov telescope arrays to stellar intensity interferometry (SII). Of particular interest is the possibility of model-independent image recovery afforded by the good (u, v)-plane…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Paul D. Nunez , Richard Holmes , David Kieda , Janvida Rou , Stephan LeBohec

This paper is based on the opening lecture given at the 2017 edition of the Evry Schatzman school on high-angular resolution imaging of stars and their direct environment. Two relevant observing techniques: long baseline interferometry and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-04 Frantz Martinache

Interferometric observations of microlensing events have the potential to provide unique constraints on the physical properties of the lensing systems. In this work, we first present a formalism that closely combines interferometric and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-09 A. Cassan , C. Ranc

Asteroseismology provides us with a unique opportunity to improve our understanding of stellar structure and evolution. Recent developments, including the first systematic studies of solar-like pulsators, have boosted the impact of this…

During the last two decades, the first generation of beam combiners at the Very Large Telescope Interferometer has proved the importance of optical interferometry for high-angular resolution astrophysical studies in the near- and…

Interference with atomic and molecular matter waves is a rich branch of atomic physics and quantum optics. It started with atom diffraction from crystal surfaces and the separated oscillatory fields technique used in atomic clocks. Atom…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-08-03 Alexander D. Cronin , Joerg Schmiedmayer , David E. Pritchard