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Selection of ULTRACAM press releases and news items: 10/10/2024 - "Black hole destroys one star and then goes after another in major cosmic discovery" - QUB press release 15/11/2023 - "Sheffield astronomers help discover signs of life in a star's explosive death" - Sheffield press release, Nature news, Cornell press release 27/10/2023 - "Sheffield astronomers help to confirm heaviest elements in the Universe are formed in kilonovae" - Sheffield press release, Warwick press release, Radboud press release 15/06/2023 - "Discovery of white dwarf pulsar sheds light on star evolution" - Warwick press release 05/05/2022 - "Astronomers discover a rare 'black widow' binary star, with the shortest orbit ever identified" - Sheffield press release, MIT press release 07/12/2017 - "Black holes' magnetism surprisingly wimpy" - University of Florida press release, Astronomy magazine 30/10/2017 - "Scientists penetrate mystery of raging black hole beams" - Southampton press release, artist's impression, data animation, artist's animation, Sheffield press release, HEAPOW, Front Cover of Nature Astronomy, Dec 2017, News & Views in Nature Astronomy 27/07/2016 - "White Dwarf Lashes Red Dwarf with Mystery Ray" - ESO press release, artist's impression, animation, ESA Hubble Space Telescope, Warwick press release, EarthSky 16/03/2016 - "Astronomers see black hole raging red" - RAS press release, ING press release, Southampton press release, Astronomy Now, Independent, Metro, Science Daily 18/02/2015 - "The Strange Case of the Missing Dwarf" - ESO press release, CNET 17/02/2015 - "Dust to dust: a disintegrating rocky exoplanet could unlock secrets to how our solar system was formed" - Press release 14/12/2014 - "One of most accurate measurements of the size of a Trans-Neptunian Object from a stellar occultation" - Press release, video 27/06/2013 - "Survivor of stellar collision is new type of pulsating star" - Press release, sound clip and visualisations 25/04/2013 - "Einstein Was Right - So Far" - ESO press release, Sky and Telescope article 12/04/2013 - "RAS Specialist Discussion Meeting on High Time-Resolution Optical Astrophysics" - meeting to celebrate the tenth anniversary of first light with ULTRACAM 11/01/2013 - "Jackson-Gwilt Medal awarded by Royal Astronomical Society for ULTRACAM" - Press releases: RAS, STFC, ING, Sheffield, The Times 21/11/2012 - "Dwarf planet Makemake examined for the first time" - ESO press release, BBC news, Daily Mail, Astronomy Picture of the Day, link to various movies 09/10/2010 - "Planetary system discovered around double star" - Sheffield and Warwick press releases, BBC news, SPACE.com, Astronomy magazine, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Daily Express, Metro 13/05/2009 - "High-speed astrophysics with ULTRACAM/ULTRASPEC" - Jodcast 15/10/2008 - "VLT and Rossi XTE satellite probe violently variable black holes" - ESO and RIKEN press releases 15/10/2008 - "Two black holes teach astronomers a lesson" - NASA web feature 07/02/2007 - First Observational Evidence of a Dead Cataclysmic Variable - ING scientific highlight 01/05/2007 - "Astronomers Unearth a Cataclysmic Corpse" - Sky & Telescope article 07/12/2006 - "Cataclysmic Cannibals in the Sky" - Science press release 01/09/2005 - Observing with the New High-Speed Camera ULTRACAM on Melipal - ESO Messenger article 09/06/2005 - "Ultra-fast Movies of the Sky" - ESO press release 09/06/2005 - "Astronomy in the fast lane " - PPARC/ROE press release 09/02/2004 - "New instruments give UK astronomers control of time domain" - RAS press release, video, slides 28/10/2002 - "ULTRACAM successfully commissioned on the WHT" - ING bulletin article (pdf), (html) 14/08/2002 - "New Telescope Camera Targets Fast-Spinning Hearts of Distant Galaxies" - SPACE.com article 25/07/2002 - "100 Photographs in the Blink of an Eye" - PPARC press release Selection of ULTRACAM publications: 10/10/2024 - "Quasi-periodic X-ray eruptions years after a nearby tidal disruption event" - Nature paper 15/11/2023 - "Minutes-duration optical flares with supernova luminosities" - Nature paper 25/10/2023 - "Heavy element production in a compact object merger observed by JWST" - Nature paper 15/06/2023 - "A 5.3-min-period pulsing white dwarf in a binary detected from radio to X-rays" - Nature Astronomy paper 04/05/2022 - "A 62-minute orbital period black widow binary in a wide hierarchical triple" - Nature paper 08/12/2017 - "A precise measurement of the magnetic field in the corona of the black hole binary V404 Cygni" - Science paper 30/10/2017 - "An elevation of 0.1 light-seconds for the optical jet base in an accreting Galactic black hole system" - Nature Astronomy paper 27/07/2016 - "A radio-pulsing white dwarf binary star" - Nature paper 16/03/2016 - "Furiously Fast and Red: Sub-second Optical Flaring in V404 Cyg during the 2015 Outburst Peak" - MNRAS paper 18/02/2016 - Full list of ULTRACAM publications 09/10/2015 - "Accretion-induced variability links young stellar objects, white dwarfs, and black holes" - Science Advances paper 27/06/2013 - "Multi-periodic pulsations of a stripped red-giant star in an eclipsing binary system" - Nature paper 26/04/2013 - "A Massive Pulsar in a Compact Relativistic Binary" - Science paper 21/11/2012 - "Albedo and atmospheric constraints of dwarf planet Makemake from a stellar occultation" - Nature paper 01/10/2010 - "Two planets orbiting the recently formed post-common envelope binary NN Serpentis" - A&A paper 01/07/2007 - "ULTRACAM: an ultrafast, triple-beam CCD camera for high-speed astrophysics" - MNRAS paper 01/12/2006 - "A Brown Dwarf Mass Donor in an Accreting Binary" - Science paper and Science Perspectives 30/10/2002 - "The Ultracam camera control and data acquisition system" - SPIE paper |