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CTA Consortium meeting – DESY, Berlin/Zeuthen; May 2010CTA Consortium meeting – DESY, Berlin/Zeuthen; May 2010
Dainis Dravins & Hannes Jensen
Lund Observatory, Swedenwww.astro.lu.se/~dainis
HUNDRED TIMES SHARPER THAN HUBBLE !
Intensity Interferometry with
Various CTA Configurations
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ANGULAR RESOLUTION IN ASTRONOMY
1 arcsec
1 mas
100 µas
10 mas
100 mas
10 µas
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Observing stars…(and not only starlight)
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ESO Paranal
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Actual image of the Mira-type variable T Leporis from VLTI
Image obtained by combining hundreds of interferometric measurements
Central disc shows stellar surface, surrounded by a spherical shell of expelled molecular material
Infrared wavelengths color-coded:Blue = 1.4 – 1.6 µmGreen = 1.6 – 1.75 µmRed = 1.75 – 1.9 µm In the green channel, the molecular envelope is thinner
The size of Earth’s orbit is marked.
Resolution = 4 milli-arcseconds
(ESO press release 0906, Feb. 2009)
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Many stars becomeresolved surface objectsfor baselines 100-1000 m
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Intensity interferometry
Pro: Time resolution of 1 ns implies 30 cm light travel time;
no need for any more accurate optics nor atmosphere.
Short wavelengths no problem; hot sources observable
Con: Signal comes from two-photon correlations, increases as signal squared; requires large flux
collectors
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Narrabri intensity interferometerwith its circular railway trackR.Hanbury Brown: BOFFIN. A Personal Story of the Early Daysof Radar, Radio Astronomy and Quantum Optics (1991)
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Flux collectors at NarrabriR.Hanbury Brown: The Stellar Interferometer at Narrabri ObservatorySky and Telescope 28, No.2, 64, August 1964
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Intensity interferometryIntensity interferometry
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Visibility (solid) and squared visibility (dashed) as function of baseline at 500 nm.
Inner curves are for a stellar disk of diameter 2 mas; outer for 1 mas.
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Squared visibility (“diffraction pattern”), of a stellar disk of angular diameter 0.5 mas.
Z = normalized second-order coherence
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Squared visibility (“diffraction pattern”) from a close binary star.Left: Pristine image; Right: Logarithm of magnitude of Fourier transform
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Different array layouts
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VERITAS Fourier plane coverage during 8 hours, as a star moves through the zenith
Projected baselines changewith Earth rotation
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Simulated measurements of a binary star with CTA-B telescope array
Left: Short integration time (noisy); Right: Longer integration time.Color scale shows normalized correlation.
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Left: Telescopes for CTA configurations B, D, and I.Center column: (u,v)-plane coverage for a star in zenith.
Right: (u,v)-plane coverage for a star moving from zenith through 20 degrees west.
CTA I
CTA D
CTA B
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Simulated observations of binary stars with different sizes.(mV = 3; Teff = 7000 K; T = 10 h; t = 1 ns; = 500 nm; = 1 nm; QE = 0.7, array = CTA
B)Top: Reconstructed and pristine images; Bottom: Fourier magnitudes.
Already changes in stellar radii by only a few micro-arcseconds are well resolved.
CTA B
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Simulated observations of binary stars with different separations.(mV = 3; Teff = 7000 K; T = 10 h; t = 1 ns; = 500 nm; = 1 nm; QE = 0.7, array = CTA
B)Top: Reconstructed and pristine images; Bottom: Fourier magnitudes.
Stellar diameters and binary separations are well resolved.
CTA B
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Left to right: About one half, one quarter, one eight of the telescopes retained.
Subsets of CTA B
Subsets of CTA D
Subsets of CTA I
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Simulated observations in the (u,v)-plane of close binary stars. Full CTA configurations B (top row), D (middle), and I (bottom).Stellar magnitudes mV=3 (left column), mV=5, and mV=7 (right).
CTA B
CTA D
CTA I
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Simulated observations in the (u,v)-plane of close binary stars. Full CTA configurations B (top row), D (middle), and I (bottom).Half of all telescopes (left column), one quarter, and one eight
(right).
Subsets of CTA B
Subsets of CTA D
Subsets of CTA I
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CTA candidate configurations examined
Conf.B Conf.D Conf.INumber of telescopes 42 57 77Unique baselines 253 487 1606Shortest baseline 32 170 90 metersLongest baseline 759 2180 2200 metersResolution range @ 500 nm 0.16-3.9 0.05-0.75 0.06-1.4 mas
Resolution range denotes smallest and largest angular sizes that can be resolved with the array (= 1.22 D/)
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Evaluation:
All configurations B, D, I provide dense sampling of the (u,v)-plane
due to the sheer number of telescopes.
Different declinations of the source or the geographic orientation of the array have negligible effects due to the large number of
telescopes.
but…
Arrays such as D are severely crippled by lack of short baselines,limiting the instrument to studying sources smaller than 0.5 mas.
Many telescopes are required for good Fourier-plane sampling,and too few telescopes provide poor data.
Best performance among those examined: Configuration I.
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Digital intensity interferometry
Very fast digital detectors, very fast digital signal handling,
and the quantum-optical theory of optical coherencenow enable very-long-baseline optical interferometry
by combining distant Cherenkov telescopes in software
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Diameters of brighter stars that are observable with intensity interferometry.
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Stellar diameters for different temperatures and different apparent magnitudes.Dashed lines show the baselines at which different diameters are resolved.
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