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Instrument delivered on budget and 3 months ahead of schedule.
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<2% technical downtime, mainly due to hardware failures.
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Nearly all performance goals met, including throughput (50%),
image quality (seeing limited at 0.6"), flexure (10 microns),
timing accuracy (50 µs) and detector-limited data throughput.
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Frame rates achieved on sky range from 0.05 Hz
- 360 Hz on targets ranging in brightness from 8 - 25 magnitude.
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75 nights allocated on the WHT (and 22
nights on the VLT) in the past 3 years. ULTRACAM currently offered to
astronomers in the UK, Netherlands, Spain and elsewhere on a shared-risks,
collaborative basis.
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11 refereed papers to date.
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A vigorous enhancements programme, focussed on increasing the maximum frame
rate, reducing the readout noise and minimizing downtime/inefficiency.
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