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A&A 398, 385-390 (2003)
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20021667
Subtracting the photon noise bias from single-mode optical interferometer visibilities
G. PerrinLESIA, FRE 2461, Observatoire de Paris, section de Meudon, 5 place Jules Janssen, 92190 Meudon, France
(Received 3 July 2002 / Accepted 22 October 2002 )
Abstract
I present in this paper a method to subtract the bias due
to source photon noise from visibilities measured with a
single-mode optical interferometer. Properties of the processed
noise are demonstrated and examples of subtraction on real data
are presented.
Key words: instrumentation: interferometers -- techniques: interferometric -- methods: data analysis
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