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Principles of Long Baseline Interferometry

Course Notes from the 1999 Michelson Summer School, August 15-19, 1999. Published in August 2000, these textbook-style proceedings of the 1999 Michelson Summer School in Pasadena provide a introductory overview of the technique and application of optical interferometry.

Editor: Peter Lawson
338 pages
JPL Publication 00-009 07/00

This page was last updated: January 29, 2001

 
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Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Why Build Stellar Interferometers?
Elementary Theory of Interferometry
412 K
Chapter 3 Beam Combination and Fringe Measurement 407 K
Chapter 4 (a) Noise and Sensitivity in Interferometry 380 K
Chapter 4 (b) Noise and Sensitivity in Interferometry (cont.) 688 K
Chapter 5 Observing Through the Turbulent Atmosphere 272 K
Chapter 6 (a) Design of Stellar Interferometers 748 K
Chapter 6 (b) Design of Stellar Interferometers (cont.) 2,900 K
Chapter 6 (c) Design of Stellar Interferometers (cont.) 3,900 K
Chapter 6 (d) Design of Stellar Interferometers (cont.) 3,200 K
Chapter 6 (e) Design of Stellar Interferometers (cont.) 48 K
Chapter 7 Visibility Estimation and Calibration 196 K
Chapter 8 Phase and Group Delay Estimation 948 K
Chapter 9 Phase Referencing 380 K
Chapter 10 (a) Wide-Angle Astronomy 1,800 K
Chapter 10 (b) Wide-Angle Astronomy (cont.) 248 K
Chapter 11 Ground-Based Narrow Angle Astronomy 160 K
Chapter 12 Interferometry with Two Telescopes 240 K
Chapter 13 (a) An Introduction to Closure Phase 256 K
Chapter 13 (b) An Introduction to Closure Phase 392 K
Chapter 14 Interferometer Design for Synthesis Imaging 392 K
Chapter 15 Data Reduction for Synthesis Imaging 468 K
Chapter 16 (a) Nulling Interferometry and Planet Detection 520 K
Chapter 16 (b) Nulling Interferometry and Planet Detection (cont.) 2,000 K
Chapter 16 (c) Nulling Interferometry and Planet Detection (cont.) 99 K
Chapter 17 Binary Stars 220 K
Chapter 18 Future Ground-Based Interferometry 208 K
Appendices Notes on the History of Stellar Interferometry
Suggested Reading
208 K
Page 317 this page is in Postscript format 74 K


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Course Notes from the 1999 Michelson Interferometry Summer School
Caltech, Pasadena, California, August 15-19, 1999.

Edited by P.R. Lawson (JPL)
Last Updated 9 February 2004

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