Year: 2010
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Based on the success of four-telescope imaging with the Michigan Infrared Combiner (MIRC) on the CHARA Array, our Michigan-based group will now upgrade our system to combine all six CHARA telescope simultaneously. In order to make this observationally efficient, we have had to improve a number of subsystems and commission new ones, including the new CHAMP fringe tracker, the introduction of photometric channels, the upgrading of the realtime operating systems, and the obvious hardware and software upgrades of the control system and the data pipeline. Here we will discuss the advantages of six-telescope operation, outline our upgrade plans and discuss our current progress.
DOI: 10.1117/12.858286
Authors: John D. Monnier, M. Anderson, F. Baron, D. H. Berger, X. Che, T. Eckhause, S. Kraus, E. Pedretti, N. Thureau, R. Millan-Gabet, T. ten Brummelaar, P. Irwin, M. Zhao
Language: English
Subfield: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
Awards: Infrared Fringe Tracking with the CHARA Interferometer: Imaging YSO Disks and Faint Companions, First Science with CHARA Fringe Tracker: Imaging Planet-forming Disks around Young Stars, INTEGRATED OPTICS FOR SPACE INTERFEROMETRY: NEAR INFRARED PROTOTYPE COMBINER IN LITHIUM NIOBATE, First Imaging Survey of Rapid Rotators and Be Stars with Long-Baseline Interferometry
OpenAlex ID: W2018481127