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Optical Observations on Milli-, Micro-, and Nanosecond Timescales
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
Abstract
Instrumentation and observing methods are developed for optical high-speed astrophysics, aiming at exploring milli-, micro-, and nanosecond variability. Such rapid fluctuations can be expected from instabilities in accretion flows, and in the fine structure of photon emission. For the optical, we have constructed a dedicated instrument, whose first version was tested on La Palma to study atmospheric scintillation on very short timescales. A second version is now under development, using photon-counting avalanche photodiodes as detectors.
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