期刊
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 444, 期 4, 页码 3504-3516出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stu1660
关键词
instrumentation: detectors; instrumentation: photometers; techniques: photometric
资金
- European Commission (OPTICON)
- STFC
- Department of Physics of the University of Warwick
- Faculty of Science at the University of Sheffield
- Royal Society
- Leverhulme Trust
- STFC [ST/J001589/1, ST/L000733/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/J001589/1, ST/L000733/1] Funding Source: researchfish
ULTRASPEC is a high-speed imaging photometer mounted permanently at one of the Nasmyth focii of the 2.4-m Thai National Telescope (TNT) on Doi Inthanon, Thailand's highest mountain. ULTRASPEC employs a 1024 x 1024 pixel frame-transfer, electron-multiplying CCD (EMCCD) in conjunction with re-imaging optics to image a field of 7.7 x 7.7 arcmin(2) at (windowed) frame rates of up to similar to 200 Hz. The EMCCD has two outputs - a normal output that provides a readout noise of 2.3 e(-) and an avalanche output that can provide essentially zero readout noise. A six-position filter wheel enables narrow-band and broad-band imaging over the wavelength range 330-1000 nm. The instrument saw first light on the TNT in 2013 November and will be used to study rapid variability in the Universe. In this paper we describe the scientific motivation behind ULTRASPEC, present an outline of its design and report on its measured performance on the TNT.
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