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Interferometric imaging: A numerical simulation

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Non-redundant arrays offer the possibility of reconstructing optical solar images to the diffraction limit of resolution, with minimal data processing. A particular algorithm, due to W. T. Rhodes, for the analysis of the fringes produced by a set of non-redundant arrays, has been evaluated numerically. The algorithm can give satisfactory results with S/N ∼ 100, but can also break down at moments of unfavorable seeing.

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Zirker, J.B. Interferometric imaging: A numerical simulation. Sol Phys 111, 235–242 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00148516

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