ultracam: high-speed astrophysics





Vik Dhillon, Mark Stevenson,
John Kelly, Richard Pashley
University of Sheffield
 


Tom Marsh
University of Southampton
 


David Atkinson, Derek Ives, Tully Peacocke,
Chris Tierney, Andy Vick
 




ULTRACAM is an ultra-fast, triple-beam CCD camera, designed to study one of the few remaining unexplored regions of observational parameter space - high temporal resolution. Funded in full (£292 k) by PPARC in October 1999, it will see first light during February 2002 and will be used on 2-m, 4-m and 8-m class telescopes in Australia, Chile, Greece, La Palma and South Africa to study astrophysics on the fastest timescales.                  
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