On the use of electron-multiplying CCDs for astronomical spectroscopy

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 411, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 211-225

  Tulloch, S M ^a   Dhillon, V S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Instrumentation: detectors; Methods: data analysis; Techniques: spectroscopic

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONS; PHOTONS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATION; ASTRONOMICAL SPECTROSCOPY; CCD DETECTORS; ELECTRON MULTIPLYING CCDS; FAINT TARGET; HIGH SPEED; INSTRUMENTATION:DETECTORS; METHODS. DATA ANALYSIS; READ NOISE; TECHNIQUES: SPECTROSCOPIC;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

EID: 78751682825     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.17675.x     Document Type: Article

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