Laboratory Demonstration of Image-Plane Self-Calibration in Interferometry

2024/05/20 by Carilli, Christopher L., Nikolic, Bojan, Torino, Laura +2
#FOS: Physical sciences #Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) #Optics (physics.optics)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2405.12176

Abstract

We demonstrate the Shape-Orientation-Size conservation principle for a 3-element interferometer using aperture plane masking at the ALBA visible synchrotron radiation light source. We then use these data to demonstrate Image Plane Self-Calibration.

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