High-Precision Optical Interferometry and Application to Be Stars

摘要

This dissertation presents a new technique for calibrating optical long-baseline interferometric observations that are obtained simultaneously in a number of spectral channels. For certain classes of objects such as emission- line sources or binary systems, the new technique allows the calibration corrections and source characteristics to be obtained from the observations of a program star alone. This is because for such sources, the parameters describing the characteristics of the source have a different functional dependence than the calibration parameters.