An interferometry imaging beauty contest

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5491, Issue PART 2, 2004, Pages 886-899

  Lawson, Peter R ^a   Cotton, William D ^b   Hummel, Christian A ^c   Monnier, John D ^d   Zhao, Ming ^d   Young, John S ^e   Thorsteinsson, Hrobjartur ^e   Meimon, Serge C ^f   Mugnier, Laurent ^f   Le Besnerais, Guy ^f   Thiébaut, Eric ^g   Tuthill, Peter G ^h  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^c EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^f ONERA   (France)

^g CENTRE DE RECHERCHE ASTROPHYSIQUE DE LYON   (France)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aperture synthesis; Astronomical software; Closure phase; Imaging; Infrared; Interferometry; Optical

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; INFRARED IMAGING; INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

APERTURE SYNTHESIS; ASTRONOMICAL SOFTWARE; CLOSURE PHASE; IMAGING BEAUTY CONTEST;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 19944365045     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.550710     Document Type: Conference Paper

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