Astrometry in two-photon interferometry using Earth rotation fringe scan

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2205.09091v3
• Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2022 22:32:26 GMT
• Title: Astrometry in two-photon interferometry using Earth rotation fringe scan
• Authors: Zhi Chen, Andrei Nomerotski, An\v{z}e Slosar, Paul Stankus, Stephen Vintskevich
• Abstract summary: We propose that photons from two different astronomical sources could be interfered at two decoupled stations. We identify candidate stair pairs in the northern hemisphere, where this technique could be applied.
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• Abstract: Optical interferometers may not require a phase-stable optical link between the stations if instead sources of quantum-mechanically entangled pairs could be provided to them, enabling long baselines. We developed a new variation of this idea, proposing that photons from two different astronomical sources could be interfered at two decoupled stations. Interference products can then be calculated in post-processing or requiring only a slow, classical connection between stations. In this work, we investigated practical feasibility of this approach. We developed a Bayesian analysis method for the earth rotation fringe scanning technique and showed that in the limit of high signal-to-noise ratio it reproduced the results from a simple Fisher matrix analysis. We identify candidate stair pairs in the northern hemisphere, where this technique could be applied. With two telescopes with an effective collecting area of $\sim 2$ m$^2$, we could detect fringing and measure the astrometric separation of the sources at $\sim 10\,\mu$as precision in a few hours of observations, in agreement with previous estimates.

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