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Generic data reduction for nulling interferometry package: the grip of a single data reduction package on all the nulling interferometers
- Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- Nulling interferometry is a powerful observing technique to reach exoplanets and circumstellar dust at separations too small for direct imaging with single-dish telescopes and too large for indirect methods. With near-future instrumentation, it bears the potential to detect young, hot planets near the snow lines of their host stars. A future space mission could detect and characterize a large number of rocky, habitable-zone planets around nearby stars at thermal-infrared wavelengths. The null self-calibration is a method aiming at modelling the statistical distribution of the nulled signal. It has proven to be more sensitive and accurate than average-based data reduction methods in nulling interferometry. This statistical approach opens the possibility of designing a GPU-based Python package to reduce the data from any of these instruments, by simply providing the data and a simulator of the instrument. GRIP is a toolbox to reduce nulling and interferometric data based on the statistical self-calibration method. In this article, we present the main features of GRIP as well as applications on real data.
- Subjects :
- Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
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- Database :
- arXiv
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.2407.08802
- Document Type :
- Working Paper