2001 Michelson Interferometry Summer School

Reading List and Selected Links

Introduction to Stellar Interferometry

• A sharper view of the stars
  A.R. Hajian and J.T. Armstrong
  Scientific American, March 2001.

• Optical Interferometry

Andreas Quirrenbach
Ann. Rev. Astron. Astrophys. 39, 353-401 (2001).

Mira Variables and FLUOR

• Recent results from the IOTA interferometer
  W.A. Traub
  Proc. SPIE 3350, 848-855 (1998)
   
• FLUOR fibered instrument at the IOTA interferometer
  V. Coude du Foresto, G. Perrin, C. Ruilier, B. Mennesson,
  W. Traub, and M. Lacasse
  Proc. SPIE 3350, 856-863 (1998).
   
• Interferometric observations of R Leonis in the K band: First direct detection of the photospheric pulsation and study of the atmospheric intensity distribution. (390k)
  G. Perrin, V. Coude du Foresto, S.T. Ridgway, B. Mennesson, C. Ruilier, J.-M. Mariotti, W.A. Traub, and M.G. Lacasse
  Astron. Astrophys. 345, 221-232 (1999).
   
• Deriving object visibilities from interferograms obtained with a fiber stellar interferometer
  V. Coudé du Foresto, S. Ridgway and J.-M. Mariotti
  Astron. Astrophys. Supp. Ser. 121, 379-392 (1997).
   

Wolf-Rayet Stars and Keck Masking

• A dusty pinwheel nebula around the massive star wr104
  Peter Tuthill, John Monnier, and William Danchi
  Nature 398, 487-489, April 8, 1999.
   
• Michelson Interferometry with the Keck I Telescope (PDF)
  P.G. Tuthill, J.D. Monnier, W.C. Danchi, E.H. Wishnow and C.A. Haniff
  Pub. Astron. Soc. Pac. 112, 555.
   
• An Introduction to Closure Phase
  J.D. Monnier
  in Principles of Long Baseline Stellar Interferometry,
  P.R. Lawson, ed. (Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Pasadena CA, 2000), pp. 203-299.

Binary Stars and NPOI

• "Navy Prototype Optical Interferometer Observations of the Double Stars Mizar A and Matar"
  C.A. Hummel, D. Mozurkewich, J.T. Armstrong, A.R. Hajian, N.M. Elias II, and D.J. Hutter
  Astron. J. 116, 2536. (1998)

• The Navy Prototype Optical Interferometer
  J.T. Armstrong, D. Mozurkewich, L.J. Rickard, D.J. Hutter, J.A. Benson, P.F. Bowers, N.M. Elias II, C.A. Hummel, K.J. Johnston, D.F. Buscher, J.H. Clark III, L. Ha, L.-C. Ling, N.M. White, and R.S. Simon
  Astrophys. J. 496 550-571 (1998).

• Proceedings of the 2000 Michelson Summer School
  P.R. Lawson, editor
  Refer to talks by McAlister, Hummel, and others in the session on Binary Stars.

Extra Solar Planets, PTI, and the Keck Interferometer

• Detection of extrasolar giant planets

G.W. Marcy and R.P. Butler
Ann. Rev. Astron. Astrophys. 36, 57-97 (1998).
• The potential of long-baseline infrared interferometry for narrow-angle astronomy

M. Shao and M.M. Colavita
Astron. Astrophys. 262, 353-358 (1992).
• The Palomar Testbed Interferometer

M.M. Colavita, et al.
Astrophys. J. 510, 505-521 (1999).
• The Keck Interferometer: progress report

M.M. Colavita and P.L. Wizinowich
Proc. SPIE 4006, 310-320 (2000).
• SIM Taking the Measure of the Universe

R. Danner and S. Unwin, eds
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL Pub. 400-811 (1999).