Phase errors in diffraction-limited imaging: Contrast limits for sparse aperture masking

Ireland, Michael2015-12-100035-8711http://hdl.handle.net/1885/66374Bispectrum phase, closure phase and their generalization to kernel phase are all independent of pupil-plane phase errors to first order. This property, when used with sparse aperture masking behind adaptive optics, has been used recently in high-contrastAuthor/s retain copyrightKeywords: Instrumentation:adaptive optics; Instrumentation:high angular resolution; Techniques:image processing; Techniques:interferometricPhase errors in diffraction-limited imaging: Contrast limits for sparse aperture masking201310.1093/mnras/stt8592016-02-24