Aperture synthesis imaging with the midinfrared VLTI instrument MATISSE
Karl-Heinz Hofmann, Matthias Heininger, Walter J. Jaffe, Stefan Kraus, Bruno Lopez, Florentin A. Millour, Dieter Schertl, Gerd P. Weigelt, Sebastian Wolf
Proceedings of the SPIE conference "Astronomical Instrumentation"
held in Marseille, France from June 23-28, 2008
SPIE Proceedings, Volume 7013, pg.70133Y (1-7) (2008)
Abstract
MATISSE is the second-generation mid-IR interferometry instrument proposed for ESO’s Very Large Telescope
Interferometer. MATISSE will combine the beams of up to four UTs or ATs of the VLTI and will allow aperturesynthesis
imaging in the L, M, and N bands with a resolution of a few milli-arcseconds. We report on detailed
image reconstruction experiments with simulated MATISSE interferograms. Using model images as input for
many of our simulations, we study the dependence of the reconstructions on the brightness and size of the target,
the uv coverage, and several other parameters.
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