Stellar intensity interferometry: Optimizing air Cherenkov telescope array layouts

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7734, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Jensen, Hannes ^a   Dravins, Dainis ^a   Lebohec, Stephan ^b   Nuñez, Paul D ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Instrumentation high angular resolution; Instrumentation interferometers; Stars individual

Indexed keywords

AIR-CHERENKOV TELESCOPES; ARRAY GEOMETRIES; ARRAY LAYOUT; CHERENKOV LIGHT; CHERENKOV TELESCOPE; FOURIER COMPONENTS; GAMMA-RAY OBSERVATIONS; GEOMETRIC PATTERNS; HIGH ANGULAR RESOLUTIONS; INSTRUMENTATION INTERFEROMETERS; LARGE ARRAYS; OPTICAL IMAGERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE; SOURCE IMAGES; SPARSE ARRAYS; STARS INDIVIDUAL; VISIBLE WAVELENGTHS;

GAMMA RAYS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INSTRUMENTS; INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTIMIZATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STARS;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 79953050437     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.856412     Document Type: Conference Paper

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