An optical interferometer with wavelength dispersion.
Abstract
MAPPIT is an optical interferometer installed at the coude focus of the 3.9m Anglo-Australian Telescope. The instrument combines non-redundant masking with wavelength dispersion and is able to record fringes simultaneously over a wide bandwidth. For typical observations centred near 600nm, the bandwidth is {DELTA}λ=55nm and the spectral resolution is δλ=3nm. This paper describes the instrument and the data processing methods and presents some results. We find the star σ Sgr to be a close binary; the system is only partially resolved, with a separation of (11.5+/-2)milliarcsec (assuming the components to have equal magnitudes). We also give angular diameter measurements of two red giant stars, α Sco and β Gru. The observations of β Gru (spectral type M5 III) resolve the star for the first time and give an equivalent uniform-disk diameter of (27+/-3)milliarcsec.
- Publication:
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Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Pub Date:
- October 1994
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.astro-ph/9404001
- arXiv:
- arXiv:astro-ph/9404001
- Bibcode:
- 1994A&A...290..340B
- Keywords:
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- INSTRUMENTATION: INTERFEROMETERS;
- TECHNIQUES: INTERFEROMETRIC;
- STARS: INDIVIDUAL: {SIGMA} SGR;
- {ALPHA} SCO;
- {BETA} GRU;
- Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics. (9 pages, uuencoded and compressed PostScript