Interferometry basics in practice

Florentin Millour (1) , Damien Ségransan , Jean-Philippe Berger (1) , Gilles Duvert (1) , Fabien Malbet (1)

1 LAOG - Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Grenoble

The following exercises aim to learn the link between the object intensity distribution and the corresponding visibility curves of a long-baseline optical interferometer. They are also intended to show the additional constraints on observability that an interferometer has. This practical session is meant to be carried out with the ASPRO software, from the Jean-Marie Mariotti Center, but can also be done using other observation preparation software, such as viscalc from ESO. There are two main parts with series of exercises and the exercises corrections. The first one aims at understanding the visibility and its properties by practicing with simple examples, and the second one is about UV coverage.

Florentin Millour, Damien Ségransan, Jean-Philippe Berger, Gilles Duvert, Fabien Malbet. Interferometry basics in practice. New Astronomy Review, 2008, 52, pp.208. ⟨10.1016/j.newar.2008.04.015⟩. ⟨hal-00398516⟩