Stellar intensity interferometry: Imaging capabilities of Air Cherenkov telescope arrays

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7734, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Nuñeza, Paul D ^a   Lebohec, Stephan ^a   Kieda, David ^a   Holmes, Richard ^b   Jensen, Hannes ^c   Dravins, Dainis ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-CHERENKOV TELESCOPES; ANGULAR RESOLUTION; COMPLEX IMAGE; EXPOSURE TIME; IMAGING CAPABILITIES; LARGE ARRAYS; PHASE RECOVERY; PHASE RETRIEVAL; SIMULATED DATA; STELLAR ASTROPHYSICS; STELLAR DIAMETERS; VISIBLE BAND;

ASTROPHYSICS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; STARS;

INTERFEROMETRY;

EID: 78649855024     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.856496     Document Type: Conference Paper

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