MATISSE: Concept analysis
Lagarde, S., Lopez, B., Petrov, R.G., Hofmann, K.-H., Kraus, S., Jaffe, W., Antonelli, P., Bresson, Y., Leinert, Ch., Matter A.
Proceedings of the SPIE conference "Astronomical Instrumentation" You can get this publication ...
held in Marseille, France from June 23-28, 2008
SPIE Proceedings, Volume 7013, pg.701332 (1-9) (2008)
Abstract
MATISSE (Multi-AperTure mid-Infrared SpectroScopic Experiment) is a mid-infrared spectroscopic interferometer
combining the beams of up to four UTs or ATs of the VLTI. MATISSE will be the successor to MIDI and will provide
imaging capability in three spectral bands of the mid-infrared domain: L, M, and N. MATISSE will extend the
astrophysical potential of the VLTI by overcoming the ambiguities that often exist in the interpretation of simple
visibility measurements.
The concept of MATISSE was driven by a signal-to-noise ratio analysis aiming at comparing two basic principles that
we call the global combination and the pair-wise one. We detail this comparison and explain what has led to the selected
MATISSE concept: a pair-wise 0-π multi-axial mode [1].
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