High-Precision Optical Interferometry and Application to Be Stars

Abstract

This dissertation presents a new technique for calibrating optical long-baseline interferometric observations that are obtained simultaneously in a number of spectral channels. For certain classes of objects such as emission-line sources or binary systems, the new technique allows the calibration corrections and source characteristics to be obtained from the observations of a program star alone. This is because for such sources, the parameters describing the characteristics of the source have a different functional dependence than the calibration parameters.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA428742

Entities

People

  • Christopher Tycner

Organizations

  • United States Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • B Type Stars
  • Calibration
  • Data Sets
  • Emission
  • Information Operations
  • Interferometers
  • Interferometry
  • Measurement
  • Military Research
  • Models
  • Observation
  • Observatories
  • Optical Interferometers
  • Precision
  • Stars
  • Theses

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Astronomy/Astrophysics
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation