2002 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).
• Principles of Long Baseline Stellar Interferometry.
  P.R. Lawson, editor (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 2000).
  Course notes from the 1999 Michelson Interferometry Summer School. Copies available free of charge by email request to lawsonhuey.jpl.nasa.gov.

Tuesday Tutorials: Calibration and the Palomar Testbed Interferometer

• Altair's Oblateness and Rotation Velocity from Long-Baseline Interferometry
  G.T. van Belle, D.R. Ciardi, R.R. Thompson, R. L. Akeson, E.A. Lada
  Astrophys. J. 559, 1155 (2001).

• Fringe Visibility Estimators for the Palomar Testbed Interferometer
  M.M. Colavita
  Pub. Astron. Soc. Pac. 111, 111 (1999).

• On the Near-Infrared Size of Vega
  D.R. Ciardi, G.T. van Belle, R.L. Akeson, R.R. Thompson, E. A. Lada, S. B. Howell
  Astrophys. J. 559, 1147 (2001).

• The Palomar Testbed Interferometer
  M.M. Colavita, et al.
  Astrophys. J. 510, 505-521 (1999).

• Predicting Stellar Angular Sizes
  G.T. van Belle
  Pub. Astron. Soc. Pac. 111, 1515 (1999).

Thursday Tutorials: Synthesis Imaging and the Navy Prototype Optical Interferometer

• 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).

• Orbital and stellar parameters of Omicron Leonis from spectroscopy and interferometry
  C.A. Hummel, J.-M. Carquillat, N. Ginestet, R.F. Griffin, A.F. Boden, A.R. Hajian, D. Mozurkewich, T.E. Nordgren
  Astron. J. 121, 1623 (2000).

• Direct multi-wavelength limb-darkening measurements of three late-type giants with the Navy Prototype Optical Interferometer
  M. Wittkowski, C.A. Hummel, K.J. Johnston, D. Mozurkewich, A.R. Hajian, N.M. White
  Astron. Astrophys. 377, 981 (2001).

• Image formation by self-calibration in radio astronomy
  T.J. Pearson and A.C.S. Readhead
  Ann. Rev. Astron. Astrophys. 22, 97 (1984).