ALOHA 1.55μm Implementation on the CHARA Telescope Array: On-Sky Sensitivity Tests
Abstract
We intend to implement the ALOHA at 1.55μm up-conversion interferometer on the CHARA Array. After a full laboratory investigation, a sensitivity evaluation is conducted on several stars using a single interferometric arm in a photometric mode. The on-sky photometric results allows us to calibrate a numerical simulation of the interferometric configuration, and to predict the future performance of ALOHA at 1.55μm as a function of the seeing conditions.
- Publication:
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Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation
- Pub Date:
- September 2016
- DOI:
- 10.1142/S2251171716500069
- Bibcode:
- 2016JAI.....550006B
- Keywords:
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- Aperture synthesis;
- interferometry;
- non-linear wave mixing;
- up-conversion;
- fiber optics