Course Material for the Modeling and Imaging Workshop (March 16-17, 2023)

Sample Data Sets

Located on the remote data reduction machine in /dbstorage/workshop_data/

• Angular diameter, limb-darkening, starspot - MIRCX_CL-Lac_Chiavassa_2020 (Chiavassa et al. 2020, A&A, 640, 32)
• Angular diameter, limb-darkening, starspot - MIRCX_epsEri_Roettenbacher_2022 (Roettenbacher et al. 2022, AJ, 163, 19)
• Spotted star - MIRC_lamAnd_Martinez_2021 (Parks et al. 2021, ApJ, 913, 54; Martinez et al. 2021, ApJ, 916, 60)
• Convection cells - MIRC_AZCyg_Norris_2021 (Norris et al 2021, ApJ, 919, 124)
• Binary + resolved primary diameter - MIRCX_iotaPeg_Anugu_2020 (Anugu et al. 2020, AJ, 160, 158)
• Binary - high contrast companion - MIRC_V1334Cyg_Gallenne_2018 (Gallenne et al. 2018, ApJ, 867, 121)
• Binary + background flux from wide companion - MIRC_sigOri_Schaefer_2016 (Schaefer et al. 2016, AJ, 152, 213)
• Star + disk - pmoired_tutorials/FSCMa (Lazareff et al. 2017, A&A, 599, 85; Kluska et al. 2020, A&A, 636, 116)
• Star + disk (Be star) - MIRC_gamCas_Stee_2012 (Stee et al. 2012, A&A, 545, 59, Smith et al. 2012, A&A, 540, 53 )
• Star + asymmetric disk (Be star) - MIRC_zetTau_Schaefer_2010 (Schaefer et al. 2010, 140, 1838)

Introduction to Interferometric Imaging

• John Monnier - Optical and Infrared Interferometry
• Course Notes from the 1999 Michelson Summer School
• Optical Interferometry in Astronomy (Monnier. RPPh 2003)
• Advances in Optical / Infrared Interferometry (Eisenhauer, Monnier, Pfuhl. ARAA 2023)

Data Reduction Overview

• MIRC-X/MYSTIC pipeline, OIFITS data format

Accessing the Software

• Accessing the Software on the Remote Data Reduction Machine

Planning Observations

• Planning Observations at CHARA

JMMC Slides from this Meeting

• JMMC Tools: Observation preparation & data visualization
• LITpro: a model fitting software
• *.litprox save files used in the tutorial
• JMMC OImaging

Helpful Links for JMMC Software

• Aspro2 Documentation
• JMMC Tools (Slides from VLTI How, Santiago, 2022)
• Novelties in user support with JMMC tools throughout the proposal preparation cycle (Slides from CHARA meeting, Exeter, 2022)
• Aspro2 - Overview Video
• Aspro2 - The Target Editor Video

PMOIRED

• Tutorial

CANDID

• Course Instructions

• Presentation Slides

IDL Binary Grid Search

• Course Instructions

Imaging Overview

• Introduction to Imaging Stellar Surfaces (Rachael Roettenbacher and Ryan Norris) - include example for imaging AZ Cyg

JMMC OImaging

• OImaging Presentation and Tutorial

OITOOLS.jl

• Tutorials