Vik Dhillon, Tom Marsh & the ULTRACAM team


Vik Dhillon, Mark Stevenson, Paul Kerry, William Feline,
John Kelly, Richard Nicholson, Richard French,
Richard Pashley, Paul Kemp-Russell

University of Sheffield



Tom Marsh, Carolyn Brinkworth
University of Southampton



Andy Vick, David Atkinson, Tully Peacocke, Steven Beard,
Stewart McLay, David Lunney, Chris Tierney, Derek Ives

UKATC, Edinburgh
 





ULTRACAM is a PPARC-funded (£300k) ultra-fast, triple-beam CCD camera, designed to study one of the few remaining unexplored regions of observational parameter space - high temporal resolution. The instrument saw first light in May 2002 on the WHT, over 3 months ahead of schedule and within budget, and will be used on 2-m, 4-m and 8-m class telescopes around the world to study astrophysics on the fastest timescales.                  
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