Editorial: 4 May 1998
I would like to welcome you back to the OLBIN Web page.
Stuart Shaklan has recently passed the editorship of OLBIN on to me.
I am in the process of making several changes to this page.
The most important changes that you'll now see are in the
Links section
of the newsletter. This now contains a greatly expanded list of links
covering all topics of stellar interferometry.
More changes will be occuring elsewhere. If you'd like to contribute to the
newsletter, please create your own web page that contains the news item or
abstract and email me a link address so I can include the page in
the Newsletter.
I would hope to do some or all of the following:
- Establish a Hypermail bulletin board for news items, discussion,
and the exchange of information.
- Receive contributions on topics of interest in the form of essay
or reviews. Topics may be of historical, technical or astronomical
interest.
- Include links to personal homepages in the
Addressbook. I have already started this process.
Please email
me your link and any updated information if you wish it to be included.
- Hear from Java programmers who would be willing to
design applets that illustrate topics in long baseline
stellar interferometry. Examples might include fringe tracking,
phase-closure measurement, and fringes from binary stars.
I've found examples describing
Young's Two Slit Experiment, the
Interference of Sinusoidal Waveforms, a
Binary Star Orbit, and the
amazing Virtual Radio Interferometer.
I've written my own applet to play
COAST fringes, although it is long to load
and still needs work. Numerous good examples of physics applets can be found through listings at
Gamelan.
- Archive old contributions when it seems to me that their
best-before date has passed.
I look forward to your contributions.
Peter R. Lawson.
4 May 1998
MS 306-388
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
4800 Oak Grove Drive
Pasadena, CA 91109
USA
Last Updated 1 June 1998