Control interface concepts for CHARA 6-telescope fringe tracking with CHAMP+MIRC
Creators
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University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
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NASA Exoplanet Science Institute
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University of St Andrews
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Scottish Association For Marine Science
Contributors
Abstract
Cophasing six telescopes from the CHARA array, the CHARA-Michigan Phasetracker (CHAMP) and Michigan Infrared Combiner (MIRC) are pushing the frontiers of infrared long-baseline interferometric imaging in key scientific areas such as star- and planet-formation. Here we review our concepts and recent improvements on the CHAMP and MIRC control interfaces, which establish the communication to the real-time data recording & fringe tracking code, provide essential performance diagnostics, and assist the observer in the alignment and flux optimization procedure. For fringe detection and tracking with MIRC, we have developed a novel matrix approach, which provides predictions for the fringe positions based on cross-fringe information.
Additional Information
© 2012 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). We thank our colleagues from the CHARA array for support in the commissioning and operation of MIRC-6T and CHAMP. This work was performed in part under contract with the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) funded by NASA through the Sagan Fellowship Program.Attached Files
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- 71292
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20161019-142843230
Funding
- NASA Sagan Fellowship
Dates
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2016-10-19Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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2021-11-11Created from EPrint's last_modified field
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- Series Name
- Proceedings of SPIE
- Series Volume or Issue Number
- 8445