Subtracting the photon noise bias from single-mode optical interferometer visibilities

Abstract

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.

To appear in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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