Software tools for optical interferometry

Nathalie D. Thureau; Michael Ireland; John D. Monnier; Ettore Pedretti

doi:10.1117/12.670560

28 June 2006 Software tools for optical interferometry

Nathalie D. Thureau, Michael Ireland, John D. Monnier, Ettore Pedretti

Proceedings Volume 6268, Advances in Stellar Interferometry; 62683C (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.670560
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2006, Orlando, Florida , United States

Abstract

We describe a set of general purpose utilities for visualizing and manipulating optical interferometry data stored in the FITS-based OIFITS data format. This class of routines contains code like the OiPlot navigation/visualization tool which allows the user to extract visibility, closure phase and UV-coverage information from the OIFITS files and to display the information in various ways. OiPlot also has basic data model fitting capabilities which can be used for a rapid first analysis of the scientific data. More advanced image reconstruction techniques are part of a dedicated utility. In addition, these routines allow data from multiple interferometers to be combined and used together. Part of our work also aims at developing software specific to the Michigan InfraRed Combiner (MIRC). Our experience designing a flexible and robust graphical user interfaced based on sockets using python libraries has wide applicability and this paper will discuss practicalities.

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Nathalie D. Thureau, Michael Ireland, John D. Monnier, and Ettore Pedretti "Software tools for optical interferometry", Proc. SPIE 6268, Advances in Stellar Interferometry, 62683C (28 June 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.670560

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