BOSE STATISTICS AND THE STARS

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作者
BROWN, RH
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[1] White Cottage, Penton Mewsey, Andover, SPII ORQ, Hants
关键词
INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETERS; STARS; FUNDAMENTAL PARAMETERS;
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10.1007/BF03010403
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
A brief account is given of the early development of a new technique, intensity interferometry, to measure the angular size of radio sources. Following the chance discovery that it was unaffected by scintillation it was proposed to apply the same principle to measuring visible stars. This proposal met with vigorous opposition from physicists when it was realised that it implied that the time of arrival of photons in two mutually coherent beams of light must be correlated. Two laboratory experiments were done to demonstrate that this correlation does in fact take place. Then, after a pilot model had measured the angular size of Sirius, a full scale stellar intensity interferometer was built and installed at Narrabri in Australia. In a programme lasting 12 years it measured the angular diameters of 32 single stars in the spectral range 0 to F and established the first wholly empirical temperature scale for stars in that range. For the last 10 years the work has been continued by the construction of the larger and more sensitive Sydney University Stellar Interferometer called SUSI.
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