From sragland@coolstars.cfa.harvard.edu Thu Jul 3 11:53:56 2003 -0400
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 11:53:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sam Ragland
To: "Wesley A. Traub"
cc: mlacasse@cfa.harvard.edu, Rafael Millan-Gabet ,
jmonnier@cfa.harvard.edu, ncarleton@cfa.harvard.edu,
Jean-Philippe.Berger@obs.ujf-grenoble.fr, schloerb@astro.umass.edu,
epedretti@cfa.harvard.edu, Mike Pearlman ,
gary wallace , Mike Brewer ,
Chip Coldwell , pschuller@cfa.harvard.edu,
lmtmc@lmtsun.astro.umass.edu
Subject: Good News on Closure phase measurements


Hi All,

1) I find that the IOTA/IONIC provides stable closure phase
measurements - no appreciable day-to-day or run-to-run
drift in the instrumental closure phase.

2) Also, Chromaticity is not a serious issue. I find that the instrumental
closure phase changes very little with the spectral type - a maximum
of ~ 3 degrees between extreme spectral types (see the enclosed
figure: The left and right columns correspond to the two complementary
closing triangles)

3) At 1.75 microns, the complementary closing triangles has an offset
value of ~ 12 degrees.

4) The instrumental closure phase is a function of wavelength of
observations and PICNIC camera settings such as OPD range, number
of reads and loops.

I will post the details of my findings on our web site soon and write you the link.

Sam
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