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What will be the fringe scanning mode? Will the fringe tracker only scan 1 full fringe, or can the entire fringe packet be scanned in order to detect and characterize wide binaries?

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What will be the fringe scanning mode? Will the fringe tracker only scan 1 full fringe, or can the entire fringe packet be scanned in order to detect and characterize wide binaries?

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The fringe modulator will scan 1 fringe at high speed, from 100 hz to 1 Khz. The field of view will be limited by the single mode fiber between the beam combiner and the cold low resolution spectrometer. The field of view will not be limited by the spectral resolution of the spectrometer. 7.