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High Signal to Noise Observations with a Photon Counting Array

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

A. W. Rodgers ,
P. Harding ,
G. Bloxham  and
M. S. Bessell
A. W. Rodgers
Affiliation:
Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories, The Australian National University, Private Bag Woden ACT 2606, Australia
P. Harding
Affiliation:
Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories, The Australian National University, Private Bag Woden ACT 2606, Australia
G. Bloxham
Affiliation:
Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories, The Australian National University, Private Bag Woden ACT 2606, Australia
M. S. Bessell
Affiliation:
Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories, The Australian National University, Private Bag Woden ACT 2606, Australia

Abstract

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A simple high speed image widener is described which allows effective count rates of up to 100hz to be achieved with photon counting detectors thus allowing rapid accumulation of high signal to noise data in bright star spectroscopy.

Type
I. Spectrographs, Detectors, Fourier Transform Spectroscopy, and Radial Velocities
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 132: The Impact of Veryhigh S/N Spectroscopy on Stellar Physics , 1988 , pp. 23 - 25
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1988 

References

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