Iqueye, a single photon-counting photometer applied to the ESO new technology telescope

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 508, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 531-539

  Naletto, G ^a,b   Barbieri, C ^a   Occhipinti, T ^a   Capraro, I ^a   Di Paola, A ^c   Facchinetti, C ^d   Verroi, E ^a   Zoccarato, P ^a   Anzolin, G ^e   Belluso, M ^f   Billotta, S ^f   Bolli, P ^g   Bonanno, G ^f   Da Deppo, V ^b   Fornasier, S ^h   Germana C ^a   Giro, E ⁱ   Marchi, S ^a   Messina, F ^g   Pernechele, C ^g   Tamburini, F ^a   Zaccariotto, M ^a   Zampieri, L ⁱ   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^d ITALIAN SPACE AGENCY   (Italy)

^e ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

^f INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI CATANIA   (Italy)

^g INAF Astronomical Observatory of Cagliari   (Italy)

^h OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

ⁱ INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Instrumentation: miscellaneaous; Instrumentation: photometers; Techniques: miscellaneous

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION TARGETS; COUNT RATES; EXTREMELY LARGE TELESCOPES; FOUR-CHANNEL; GPS RECEIVERS; INSTRUMENTATION: PHOTOMETERS; NEW TECHNOLOGY TELESCOPE; PHOTON COUNTING; SINGLE PHOTON AVALANCHE DIODE; SINGLE PHOTONS; TELESCOPE APERTURE; TIME TO DIGITAL CONVERTERS;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTOMETERS; PHOTONS; RUBIDIUM;

PHOTOMETRY;

EID: 71849113979     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912862     Document Type: Article

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