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Stellar Diameter Measurements with Fiber Optic Double Fourier Interferometry—Experimental Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2017

Peiqian Zhao
Affiliation:
Observatoire de Paris-Meudon DESPA (CNRS, URA 264) F-92195 Meudon, France Nanjing Astronomical Instruments Research Center Chinese Academy of Sciences Nanjing, 210042, China
V. Coudé Du Foresto
Affiliation:
Observatoire de Paris-Meudon DESPA (CNRS, URA 264) F-92195 Meudon, France
J.-M. Mariotti
Affiliation:
Observatoire de Paris-Meudon DESPA (CNRS, URA 264) F-92195 Meudon, France
P. Lena
Affiliation:
Observatoire de Paris-Meudon DESPA (CNRS, URA 264) F-92195 Meudon, France
Bifang Zhou
Affiliation:
Nanjing Astronomical Instruments Research Center Chinese Academy of Sciences Nanjing, 210042, China

Abstract

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Long baseline optical interferometry has been successfully employed to measure the diameters of stars. In this technique, bandwidth smearing can affect the measurement accuracy. These bandwidth smearing effects can be, to some extent, eliminated by dividing the whole observing spectral band into sub-bands and calculating the star's diameter based on the visibilities and spatial frequencies at the corresponding sub-bands. In the visible range, dividing the whole spectral band can be implemented by introducing a spectrograph, while in the IR domain, this operation can be performed efficiently with the technique of double Fourier interferometry (DFI) without losing the advantage of multiplexing. In particular, the use of IR single-mode fiber optics for DFI will make the interferometer extremely compact, light, insensitive to surrounding conditions, etc. We established an IR single-mode fiber optic double Fourier interferometer in the laboratory, in which the optical path difference modulations are generated by stretching fiber arms and the beam combination is carried out with a fiber optic directional coupler. In this paper, we report on experiments and experimental results from measurements of the diameter of an artificial star with the technique of fiber optic DFI.

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