The CLASSIC/CLIMB Data Reduction: The Math

This technical report describes the methods used to extract closure phase from CLIMB data and visibility amplitude from both the CLASSIC and CLIMB beam combiners. It also includes a rather exhaustive description of the theory behind these methods. This high degree of detail is partly because previous publications of this theory contain errors, and partly because having done all this work it’s nice to have it written up in full somewhere, and being slightly beyond the thesis writing stage, this is only possible for me in a technical report like this.