天文光干涉与综合孔径技术的发展

本文简单介绍了光干涉与综合孔径技术发展的历史、国际上用于天文观测的一些著名光干涉仪的技术特点和进展、以及近年来我国开展的与光干涉 ,综合孔径技术有关的工作 ,最后简要介绍了在光学综合孔径技术领域所发展的光纤与集成光学等新技术     

光学综合孔径干涉成像的关键技术及多光束干涉仿真

闭合相位技术、U -V覆盖技术和像重构技术是光学综合孔径干涉成像的三个关键技术。文中简要介绍了光学综合孔径技术的发展历史、这三种关键技术和光学综合孔径望远镜阵的构成 ,对之进行了多光束干涉的计算机仿真和实验仿真 ,两者结果一致说明了光学综合孔径干涉成像技术中有关干涉的理论的正确性 ,指出了下一步的研究方向。     

恒星光学干涉测量

本文根据国际上恒星光学干涉测量的发展情况,简述了这种技术的发展历史和简单原理,对不同类型的光干涉测量技术作了评论。并介绍了国际上这方面进展的最新成就。最后简要讨论了在我国发展这项技术的必要性和可靠性。     

Golay3型光学稀疏孔径系统退化图像的频率信息提取及合成研究

利用组成星座的小卫星,分别携带分离的子望远镜和合光成像望远镜,构成Fizeau型光学综合孔径干涉系统,实现高分辨率的面源目标成像是当前的研究热点之一。这种光干涉成像系统,由于稀疏度较大,UV覆盖不全,即空间频率采样不连续,表现为系统光学传递函数有零值存在。要克服UV覆盖不全的影响,获得等效的大孔径望远镜成像效果,需要改变子孔径的空间排布,获得不同基线条件下的图像,进行空间频率信息的提取和合成,最后采用逆滤波的方法达到提高图像质量的目的。在分析单子孔径传递函数与系统传递函数关系的基础上,优化子孔径的排布方式,采用不同的频域滤波器将不同基线获得的图像中信噪比高的频率区域提取出来进行合成,再变换到空域并进行逆滤波处理,得到改善的合成图像。仿真结果显示,当得到的干涉图信噪比较低时,该方法可以有效地提高合成图像的质量。     

国家“九五”重大科学工程LAMOST简介

我国天文界经过多年的努力建设了以2.16米和1.56米光学望远镜、1.26米红外望远镜、太阳磁场和多通道望远镜、13.7米毫米波和米波综合孔径以及甚长基线干涉射电望远镜为代表的天文学实测基础,有力地促进了我国天文研究的开展,提高了我国天文学在国际上的地位。     

30m环形干涉望远镜

简要介绍了云南天文台对下一代地面大型天文光学望远镜进行的初步研究，依据这些研究结果我们提出研制一个新概念的大型地面望远镜：30m环形干涉望远镜（Ringy Interferometric Telescope），它既有单口径望远镜那样的直接成像能力和分辨率，又可以进行综合孔径模式的高分辨率成像，该计划显著地不同于经典的地面大型望远镜，对其中关键技术的研究正在积极进行之中。     

天文学进展第21卷2003年总目录

天文学、天文学史中国早期日食记录研究进展..................................................……刘次玩(1,l)仪器与技术VLBI技术新进展..................................................……项英当代光学天文望远镜控制系统新技术近代天文圆顶发展概况.....……徐欣析徐灵哲姚正秋光干涉与综合孔径技术发展LAMOST控制系统实时分布式数据库徐灵哲张秀忠(3,185)罗秋凤(3,195)周放(3,206)郭红锋(3,219)徐欣折(3,275)方位天文、天体力学InSAR技术现状与应用............................……乔书波李金岭孙付平边少锋(1,11)国际地…     

基于四棱锥传感器的波前检测仿真设计

波前检测是天文望远镜自适应光学中的重要环节。四棱锥作为一种新型的波前检测元件,与其他传统的波前传感器相比,具有较高的灵敏度。特别是对于光干涉或拼接镜面望远镜而言,四棱锥波前传感器能够被用来检测子望远镜或子镜面之间的相对光程差,从而为干涉(或共相)的实现提供有效的检测信号。在分析四棱锥波前检测原理的基础上,阐述了单孔径条件下波前倾斜检测及双孔径干涉条件下相对光程差检测的软件仿真设计和阶段性成果,并简述了下一阶段的研究计划。     

综合孔径干涉望远镜的高分辨率图像重建

利用干涉望远镜成像,可以获取最长基线对应的高频率信息,但往往只能获得部分频域覆盖.为了获得尽可能多的频率信息,可以先通过孔径排布变换,进行更充分的频率采样,再经过干涉图像合成,得到含有完备频率信息的目标高分辨率重建像.介绍了综合孔径干涉望远镜的高分辨率图像重建工作,重点讨论了孔径旋转条件下的干涉图像对齐和合成问题,并成功实施了天文目标的干涉成像观测实验,获得了有完备频率信息的目标高分辨率重建像.     

应用于自适应系统的1.2m望远镜面形误差精细检测

为检测云南天文台１．２ｍ望远镜光学成像质量,在多种光学检测方法中,我们结合实际情况,详细地讨论了两种方案的可能性。并用美国ＺＥＭＡＸ光学设计软件设计了所需的光学辅助元件。第一种方案,将全口径分割成直径为３００ｍｍ的子孔径后,利用哈特曼传感器对每个子孔径的最后成像波面进行探测,得到波前畸变量。最后将所得到的子孔径波面合成得到全口径波面,进而分析系统成像质量。第二种方案采用补偿干涉法,利用设计的补偿器补偿主镜的法线象差,得到干涉条纹,再由干涉条纹分析得到主镜面形差。这两种方法都实现微机实时采样与处理,能以较快速度计算出最后结果。最后,我们讨论了检测过程中误差来源及精度分析。在实验条件满足的情况下,整个系统的测试精度优于λ／１０。     

Probing the close environment of young stellar objects with interferometry

The study of Young Stellar Objects (YSOs) is one of the most exciting topics that can be undertaken by long baseline optical interferometry. The magnitudes of these objects are at the edge of capabilities of current optical interferometers, limiting the studies to a few dozen, but are well within the capability of coming large aperture interferometers like the VLT Interferometer, the Keck Interferometer, the Large Binocular Telescope or 'OHANA. The milli-arcsecond spatial resolution reached by interferometry probes the very close environment of young stars, down to a tenth of an astronomical unit. In this paper, I review the different aspects of star formation that can be tackled by interferometry: circumstellar disks, multiplicity, jets. I present recent observations performed with operational infrared interferometers, IOTA, PTI and ISI, and I show why in the next future one will extend these studies with large aperture interferometers. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

All you ever wanted to know about optical long baseline stellar interferometry, but were too shy to ask your adviser

I try to present a small view of the properties and issues related to astronomical interferometry observations. I recall a bit of history of the technique, give some basic assessments to the principle of interferometry, and finally, describe physical processes and limitations that affect optical long baseline interferometry and which are, in general, very useful for everyday work. Therefore, this text is not intended to perform strong demonstrations and show accurate results, but rather to transmit the general “feeling” one needs to have to not be destabilised by the first contact to real world interferometry.     

A recent history of science cases for optical interferometry

Optical long-baseline interferometry is a unique and powerful technique for astronomical research. Since the 1980’s (with I2T, GI2T, Mark I to III, SUSI, ...), optical interferometers have produced an increasing number of scientific papers covering various fields of astrophysics. As current interferometric facilities are reaching their maturity, we take the opportunity in this paper to summarize the conclusions of a few key meetings, workshops, and conferences dedicated to interferometry. We present the most persistent recommendations related to science cases and discuss some key technological developments required to address them. In the era of extremely large telescopes, optical long-baseline interferometers will remain crucial to probe the smallest spatial scales and make breakthrough discoveries.     

X-Ray Interferometry

For the astronomer, X-ray interferometry is the theory and practice of building dilute aperture telescopes for studying celestial X-ray sources. The short wavelengths and high surface brightness of X-ray sources will make the eventual scientific payoff very high, with direct imaging of the event horizons of black holes as the centerpiece. In this article, we review the history of X-ray interferometry and discuss the recent technical developments toward astronomical applications. We present several mission concepts and show they are achievable with todays technology.     

Far-Infrared/Submillimeter Astronomical Interferometry with Spaceborne Tether Formations

Through the continuing development of improved detectors and detector arrays, far-infrared/submillimeter astronomical space missions have had enormous successes in recent years. Despite these advances, the diffraction-limited angular resolving power has remained virtually constant. The advent of telescopes with apertures of several meters will improve this capability, but will still leave image resolution many orders of magnitude poorer than in most other spectral ranges. Here we point out that the only foreseeable way to improve image quality to rival that of modern optical telescopes will be with interferometers whose light collectors are connected by tethers. After making the scientific case for high spatial resolution far-infrared/submillimeter imaging and the use of interferometry as the most immediate way of producing results, we discuss recent advances in dynamic analysis and control of tethered formations, and argue that the further development and testing of tethers in space is a first step toward providing improved far-infrared/submillimeter angular resolution and astronomical image quality.     

Offline, multidetector intensity interferometers – II. Implications and applications

Intensity interferometry removes the stringent requirements on mechanical precision and atmospheric corrections that plague all amplitude interferometry techniques at the cost of severely limited sensitivity. A new idea we recently introduced, very high redundancy, alleviates this problem. It enables the relatively simple construction (∼1 cm mechanical precision) of a ground-based astronomical facility able to transform a two-dimensional field of point-like sources to a three-dimensional distribution of microarcsec resolved systems, each imaged in several optical bands. Each system will also have its high-resolution residual timing, high-quality (inside each band) spectra and light curve, emergent flux, effective temperature, polarization effects and perhaps some thermodynamic properties, all directly measured. All the above attributes can be measured in a single observation run of such a dedicated facility. We conclude that after three decades of abandonment, optical intensity interferometry deserves another review, also as a ground-based alternative to the science goals of space interferometers.     

射电干涉测量对天文脉泽研究的贡献

天文脉泽已成为一个迅速的研究领域，重点评述了射电干涉测量对天文脉泽观测和研究所起的作用。