OPTICAM: A triple-camera optical system designed to explore the fastest timescales in Astronomy

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العنوان: OPTICAM: A triple-camera optical system designed to explore the fastest timescales in Astronomy
المؤلفون: Castro, A., Altamirano, D., Michel, R., Gandhi, P., Santisteban, J. V. Hernández, Echevarría, J., Tejada, C., Knigge, C., Sierra, G., Colorado, E., Hernández-Landa, J., Whiter, D., Middleton, M., García, B., Guisa, G., Castro-Segura, N.
سنة النشر: 2019
المجموعة: Astrophysics
مصطلحات موضوعية: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
الوصف: We report the development of a high-time resolution, 3-colour, simultaneous optical imaging system for the 2.1 m telescope in San Pedro M\'artir Observatory, M\'exico. OPTICAM will be equipped with three Andor Zyla 4.2-Plus sCMOS cameras and a set of SDSS filters allowing optical coverage in the 320-1,100 nm range. OPTICAM will nominally allow sub-second exposures. Given its instrumental design, a wide range of fast-variability astrophysical sources can be targeted with OPTICAM including X-ray binaries, pulsating white dwarfs, accreting compact objects, eclipsing binaries and exoplanets. OPTICAM observations will be proprietary for only six months and will then be made publicly available for the astronomical community.
Comment: Rev. Mex A. A. accepted manuscript, 20 pages, 11 figures
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.22201/ia.01851101p.2019.55.02.20
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/1908.05785
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.1908.05785
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv
الوصف
DOI:10.22201/ia.01851101p.2019.55.02.20