Delft Testbed Interferometer: homothetic mapping and astrometric performances
Author(s) -
Pierre-Marie Gori,
Casper van der Avoort,
R. S. Le Poole,
Hedser van Brug
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
proceedings of spie, the international society for optical engineering/proceedings of spie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.192
H-Index - 176
eISSN - 1996-756X
pISSN - 0277-786X
DOI - 10.1117/12.551407
Subject(s) - homothetic transformation , testbed , interferometry , computer science , remote sensing , computer graphics (images) , physics , optics , geology , mathematics , computer network , geometry
A special case of optical aperture synthesis, homothetic mapping, is the topic of this paper. It allows for a wide field of view for interferometric instruments, interesting for astrometric measurments of wide objects. This paper describes a testbed constructed and tested in TNO-TPD in Delft (the Netherlands). This testbed is intended as a tool to investigate the ins and outs of homothetic mapping. The homothetic mapping approach is explained, the whole setup is specified and results are shown.
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