CHARA/MIRC OBSERVATIONS OF TWO M SUPERGIANTS IN PERSEUS OB1: TEMPERATURE, BAYESIAN MODELING, AND COMPRESSED SENSING IMAGING
@article{Baron2014CHARAMIRCOO, title={CHARA/MIRC OBSERVATIONS OF TWO M SUPERGIANTS IN PERSEUS OB1: TEMPERATURE, BAYESIAN MODELING, AND COMPRESSED SENSING IMAGING}, author={F. Baron and John D. Monnier and L{\'a}szl{\'o} L. Kiss and Hilding R. Neilson and M. Zhao and M. Anderson and Alicia N. Aarnio and Ettore Pedretti and Nathalie D. Thureau and Theo A. ten Brummelaar and Stephen T. Ridgway and Harold A. Mcalister and Judit Sturmann and Laszlo Sturmann and Nils H. Turner}, journal={The Astrophysical Journal}, year={2014}, volume={785}, pages={46} }
Two red supergiants (RSGs) of the Per OB1 association, RS Per and T Per, have been observed in the H band using the Michigan Infra-Red Combiner (MIRC) instrument at the CHARA array. The data show clear evidence of a departure from circular symmetry. We present here new techniques specially developed to analyze such cases, based on state-of-the-art statistical frameworks. The stellar surfaces are first modeled as limb-darkened disks based on SATLAS models that fit both MIRC interferometric data…
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