ULTRACAM: An ultrafast, triple-beam CCD camera for high-speed astrophysics

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 378, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 825-840

  Dhillon, V S ^a   Marsh, T R ^b   Stevenson, M J ^a   Atkinson, D C ^c   Kerry, P ^a   Peacocke, P T ^c   Vick, A J A ^c   Beard, S M ^c   Ives, D J ^c   Lunney, D W ^c   McLay, S A ^c   Tierney, C J ^c   Kelly, J ^a   Littlefair, S P ^a   Nicholson, R ^a   Pashley, R ^a   Harlaftis, E T ^d   O'Brien, K ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c UK ASTRONOMY TECHNOLOGY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^e EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

Author keywords

Instrumentation: detectors; Instrumentation: photometers; Techniques: photometric

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; CCD CAMERAS; EXTRASOLAR PLANETS; GAMMA RAYS; WHITE DWARFS;

ASTRONOMICAL OBJECTS; DICHROIC BEAMSPLITTER; FRAME TRANSFER CCD; HIGH SPEED; HIGH SPEED IMAGING; HIGH TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; INSTRUMENTATION: PHOTOMETERS; INSTRUMENTATION:DETECTORS; TECHNIQUES: PHOTOMETRIC; ULTRA-FAST;

PHOTOMETRY;

EID: 34250639284     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11881.x     Document Type: Article

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