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2014MNRAS.444.4009D - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 444, 4009-4021 (2014/November-2)

ULTRASPEC: a high-speed imaging photometer on the 2.4-m Thai National Telescope.

DHILLON V.S., MARSH T.R., ATKINSON D.C., BEZAWADA N., BOURS M.C.P., COPPERWHEAT C.M., GAMBLE T., HARDY L.K., HICKMAN R.D.H., IRAWATI P., IVES D.J., KERRY P., LECKNGAM A., LITTLEFAIR S.P., McLAY S.A., O'BRIEN K., PEACOCKE P.T., POSHYACHINDA S., RICHICHI A., SOONTHORNTHUM B. and VICK A.

Abstract (from CDS):

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 1024x1024 pixel frame-transfer, electron-multiplying CCD (EMCCD) in conjunction with re-imaging optics to image a field of 7.7x7.7 arcmin2 at (windowed) frame rates of up 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.

Abstract Copyright: © 2014 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society (2014)

Journal keyword(s): instrumentation: detectors - instrumentation: photometers - techniques: photometric

Errata: erratum vol. 446, p. 2870 (2015)

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