Abstract
Future large arrays of telescopes, used as intensity interferometers, can be used to image the surfaces of stars with unprecedented angular resolution. Fast-rotating, hot stars are particularly attractive targets for intensity interferometry since shorter (blue) wavelength observations do not pose additional challenges. Starting from realistic surface brightness simulations of fast-rotating stars, we discuss the capabilities of future intensity interferometers for imaging effects such as gravity darkening and rotational deformation. We find that two-telescope intensity correlation data allow reasonably good imaging of these phenomena, but can be improved with additional higher order (e.g. three-telescope) correlation data, which contain some Fourier phase information.
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