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Spectroscopy with Photon-Counting Reticons

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

David W. Latham
David W. Latham*
Affiliation:
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

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Since 1978 we have been using photon-counting Reticons for spectroscopy at Mt. Hopkins. With these detectors we have accumulated approximately 50,000 exposures, resulting in nearly 10,000 reduced astronomical spectra. This paper describes the performance of the detectors, discusses some of the procedures we use for remote observing, outlines the magnitude of the data-handling problem, and gives a few examples of recent results.

Type
Session IV: Detector Systems
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 67: Instrumentation for Astronomy with Large Optical Telescopes , 1982 , pp. 259 - 270
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1982

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