A Data Exchange Standard for Optical (Visible/IR) Interferometry

By T. Pauls, J. Young, W. Cotton, J. Monnier. SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2004

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This paper describes the OI (Optical Interferometry) Exchange Format, a standard for exchanging calibrated data from optical (visible/infrared) stellar interferometers. The standard is based on the Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) and supports the storage of optical interferometric observables, including squared visibility and closure phase—data products not included in radio interferometry standards such as UV‐FITS. The format has already gained the support of most currently operating optical interferometer projects, including COAST, NPOI, IOTA, CHARA, VLTI, PTI, and the Keck Interferometer, and is endorsed by the IAU Working Group on Optical Interferometry. Software is available for reading, writing, and the merging of OI Exchange Format files.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Instrumentation

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SOUTHERN MASSIVE STARS AT HIGH ANGULAR RESOLUTION: OBSERVATIONAL CAMPAIGN AND COMPANION DETECTION (2014, methodology): “Finally, the on-the-sky 16 http://www.jmmc.fr/catalogue_jsdc 17 http://www.jmmc.fr/searchcal 18 http://apps.jmmc.fr/badcal 19 http://www.jmmc.fr orientation of PIONIER has been checked several times and is consistent with the definition of Pauls et al. (2005).”
PIONIER: a 4-telescope visitor instrument at VLTI (2011, methodology): “In other words, it means that the produced OIFITS files are compliant with the sky orientation defined by Pauls et al. (2005).”
Few Skewed Disks Found in First Closure-Phase Survey of Herbig Ae/Be Stars (2006, methodology): “All V2 and closure phase data are available both in averaged and un-averaged form from the authors1; all data products are stored in the FITS-based, optical interferometry data exchange format (OI-FITS), recently described in Pauls et al. (2005).”
LkCa 15: A YOUNG EXOPLANET CAUGHT AT FORMATION? (2011, methodology): “The calibrated oifits files (Pauls et al. 2005) and the code that produced the fits and images for this paper have been made available at http://www.physics.mq.edu.au/∼mireland/LkCa15 sup/.”
First Results from the CHARA Array. I. An Interferometric and Spectroscopic Study of the Fast Rotator α Leonis (Regulus) (2005, unknown): “Those values are summarized in Tables 1 and 2 and are available on the CHARA website in the standard optical interferometry FITS format (Pauls et al. 2004).”