A fast photon counting camera for γ-ray pulsar astronomy
| Autor: | Alberto Carramiñana, John L. A. Fordham, Raul Michel, Benito Orozco, Salvador Zazueta |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
| Předmět: |
Physics
business.industry Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Amplifier Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Astronomy Photon counting Optics Photon emission Pulsar QUIET Instrumental noise Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics business Noise (radio) Gamma ray detection |
| Zdroj: | AIP Conference Proceedings. |
| ISSN: | 0094-243X |
| DOI: | 10.1063/1.2757389 |
| Popis: | The Electron Multiplying CCD (EMCCD) astronomical camera, under development at the Institute of Astronomy UNAM, will be able to obtain images of faint optical objects with very low instrumental noise and short integration times. The EMCCD is a normal CCD with an additional multiplication register located before the input of the readout amplifier. This will be a very suitable instrument to search for optical pulsations of unidentified gamma‐ray sources, specially with GLAST entering the realm of radio quiet gamma‐ray loud pulsars. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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