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AIRY is the acronym describing the activity of a group of astronomers and mathematicians from various Italian institutions (see the Web page indicated above). The aim of the collaboration is to develop methods and software for the restoration of interferometric images, with application to the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT). One of the first results is the package AIRY, IDL-based and CAOS-compatible (Fini et al. 2001). AIRY is designed to simulate optical and near-infrared interferometric observations and/or to perform subsequent image restoration/deconvolution. It consists of a set of specific modules which are listed and briefly presented in Section 2. The package also includes a library of ideal and Adaptive Optics (AO) corrected LBT point-spread functions (PSFs). Details can be found in Carbillet et al. (2001). An interesting feature of AIRY is its multiple deconvolution capability, well suited for the LBT case. In the current version the method implemented is the so-called Ordered Subsets - Expectation Maximization (OS-EM) algorithm (Bertero & Boccacci 2000a). As an example of application we present in Section 3 a simulated LBT observation together with a scientific interpretation of the results.
Table 1 shows a complete list, together with a very brief description, of the modules of the current version of the AIRY Simulation Package.
Figure 1 shows an example of a simulation that can be built with the AIRY Simulation Package. This simulation is essentially composed of three parts. The first part models the observed data by convolving an object map (here a stellar cluster) of given characteristics with a set of PSFs (object-PSFs), extracted, for this example, from the library. The different noise contributions are then added. The second part is the restoration of the observed data set by multiple deconvolution with another set of PSFs (reference-PSFs), after a pre-processing stage. The third part permits the analysis and saving of the deconvolved image.
Note that the modular structure of AIRY also allows using the package for improving real AO data by removing part of the AO-correction residual, and/or to produce images from real interferometric data.
The goal is to simulate high-resolution interferometric observations of a scientific object of interest
with LBT, and to retrieve the scientific parameters of this object after
the image restoration process.
We have considered a star cluster composed of 1898 stars with the following characteristics:
age 4.0Gyr, metallicity Z0.008, distance modulus=
kpc), reddening=0, extension
field
.
Three object maps (
pixels) were modeled in J, H, and K bands. The resulting magnitude
ranges were respectively 14.01-24.22, 13.25-23.63 and 12.89-23.56. The worksheet of this simulation
is similar to that presented in Figure 1 for each band. We have simulated observations
at three parallactic angles (0
, 60
, and 120
) for each band, and with 2000s integration
time for each parallactic angle. PSFs were assumed ideal (coherence, cophasage, no aberrations) for
both the reference and the object-PSFs. Multiple deconvolution was carried out for each band using 100
iterations of the OS-EM algorithm (see Bertero & Boccacci 2000a, Bertero & Boccacci 2000b,
Bertero et al. 2000).
Detection and photometry on the restored frames were performed using DAOPHOT, with a
25-sigma detection threshold and a 3 pixels (15mas) aperture photometry diameter.
The Color-Magnitude Diagram (CMD) of the star cluster in the plane H vs. (JH) is shown in
Figure 2. Detected stars are marked with squares and isochrones
corresponding to different ages and metallicity values are superimposed. From a first visual
inspection, we can derive that Z
and the age is 4.0-5.0 Gyr,
in good agreement with the input parameters.
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