Abstract
For several decades, lunar occultations have represented a powerful and productive technique for high angular resolution investigations of a broad class of astronomical sources: from stellar angular diameters to close binaries, from circumstellar shells to the Galactic Centre.
Theresolution and sensitivity offered by lunar occultations still compare favorably withthe capabilities of other more modern methods in the optical and near-infrared. Aremarkable fact, when one considersthat duringthe past20years practically nothing or verylittle haschanged in the way weobserve lunar occultations: asharp contrast withthe impressive technological and scientific advancements of other techniques.
The novel possibility of using small areas offast-readout, low-noise array detectors to record lunar occultations, however,isabouttobring radicalimprovements. Wediscusstheimpactof such detectors on the efficiency of observation and the gain for what concerns the resolution and sensitivityoflunaroccultations measurements.Newapplications’ suchaswavelength-resolved observations and investigations of low-contrast extended sources appear particularly interesting.
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Richichi, A. (1994). Lunar Occultations. In: Robertson, J.G., Tango, W.J. (eds) Very High Angular Resolution Imaging. International Astronomical Union / Union Astronomique Internationale, vol 158. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0880-5_8
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