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High Time-Resolution Astronomy on the 10-m SALT

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2012

Barry Welsh ,
David Anderson ,
Jason McPhate ,
John Vallerga ,
Oswald H. W. Siegmund ,
David Buckley ,
Amanda Gulbis ,
Marissa Kotze  and
Stephen Potter
Barry Welsh
Affiliation:
Experimental Astrophysics Group, Space Sciences Laboratory, UC Berkeley, CA 94720, USA email: bwelsh@ssl.berkeley.edu
David Anderson
Affiliation:
Experimental Astrophysics Group, Space Sciences Laboratory, UC Berkeley, CA 94720, USA email: bwelsh@ssl.berkeley.edu
Jason McPhate
Affiliation:
Experimental Astrophysics Group, Space Sciences Laboratory, UC Berkeley, CA 94720, USA email: bwelsh@ssl.berkeley.edu
John Vallerga
Affiliation:
Experimental Astrophysics Group, Space Sciences Laboratory, UC Berkeley, CA 94720, USA email: bwelsh@ssl.berkeley.edu
Oswald H. W. Siegmund
Affiliation:
Experimental Astrophysics Group, Space Sciences Laboratory, UC Berkeley, CA 94720, USA email: bwelsh@ssl.berkeley.edu
David Buckley
Affiliation:
SALT, South African Astronomical Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa
Amanda Gulbis
Affiliation:
SALT, South African Astronomical Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa
Marissa Kotze
Affiliation:
SALT, South African Astronomical Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa
Stephen Potter
Affiliation:
SALT, South African Astronomical Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa
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Abstract

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We present a brief description of the Berkeley Visible Imaging Tube (BVIT) detector system, which is a user instrument on the 10-m Southern African Large Telescope (SALT), and include some preliminary observational results gained in mid-2011. The data show that BVIT is capable of revealing emission features occurring on time-scales of < 0.1 sec, thus opening up for the general user a window of high time-resolution astronomy at visible wavelengths.

Keywords

detectortransients
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 7 , Symposium S285: New Horizons in Time-Domain Astronomy , September 2011 , pp. 99 - 102
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2012

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