%0 Journal Article
%T Control interface concepts for CHARA 6-telescope fringe tracking with CHAMP+MIRC
%A Stefan Kraus
%A John Monnier
%A Fabien Baron
%A Xiao Che
%A Rafael Millan-Gabet
%A Natalie Thureau
%A Ettore Pedretti
%J Physics
%D 2013
%I arXiv
%R 10.1117/12.926559
%X Cophasing six telescopes from the CHARA array, the CHARA-Michigan Phasetracker (CHAMP) and Michigan Infrared Combiner (MIRC) are pushing the frontiers of infrared long-baseline interferometric imaging in key scientific areas such as star- and planet-formation. Here we review our concepts and recent improvements on the CHAMP and MIRC control interfaces, which establish the communication to the real-time data recording & fringe tracking code, provide essential performance diagnostics, and assist the observer in the alignment and flux optimization procedure. For fringe detection and tracking with MIRC, we have developed a novel matrix approach, which provides predictions for the fringe positions based on cross-fringe information.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.4098v1