A&A 398, 385-390 (2003)
Subtracting the photon noise bias from single-mode optical interferometer visibilities
LESIA, FRE 2461, Observatoire de Paris, section de Meudon, 5 place Jules Janssen, 92190 Meudon, France
Corresponding author: guy.perrin@obspm.fr
Received:
3
July
2002
Accepted:
22
October
2002
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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