Prospects for Rapid, Routine Speckle Photometry

Abstract

Image reconstruction techniques have rapidly matured over the last decade, and increasing reference to full–aperture and masked aperture results appear in the literature. Although anomalies in morphology are understood, most work uses nonlinear iterative refinements of questionable photometric robustness. Recent development of linear least–squares phase reconstruction techniques from the bispectrum (Glindemann et al. 1991) offers hope for a robust technique using a computational tour de force. However, the field cannot be considered mature until routine photometry of a large number of speckle–resolved objects is performed and demonstrated to be repeatable. We review our work and our expectations for use of both computationally intensive and simple techniques in our routine speckle reductions.