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TV Spectrum Scanner of the 6-Meter Telescope

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

T.A. Somova
Affiliation:
Special Astrophysical Observatory, Zelenchukskaya, USSR
N.N. Somov
Affiliation:
Special Astrophysical Observatory, Zelenchukskaya, USSR
S.V. Markelov
Affiliation:
Special Astrophysical Observatory, Zelenchukskaya, USSR
V.B. Nebelitskii
Affiliation:
Special Astrophysical Observatory, Zelenchukskaya, USSR
O.I. Spiridonova
Affiliation:
Special Astrophysical Observatory, Zelenchukskaya, USSR
A.F. Fomenko
Affiliation:
Special Astrophysical Observatory, Zelenchukskaya, USSR

Abstract

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The television multichannel spectrophotometer of the BTA (SAO, USSR AS), used for accumulating and recording the spectra of faint astronomical objects, is described. The Soviet image detection system comprises a three-stage image tube (UM-92) optically coupled to a high sensitivity SIT TV tube. The system operates in a photon counting mode with digital definition of the centres of photoelectron events. The spectrophotometer operates on-line with a minicomputer which exercises control of the system and performs primary reductions of the data collected. Illustrations of scans obtained during observations are given.

Type
Session IV: Detector Systems
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1982

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