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Astronomical Performances of the Mepsicron, A New Large Area Imaging Photon Counter

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

C. Firmani
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astronomía, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
L. Gutiérrez
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astronomía, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
E. Ruíz
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astronomía, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
L. Salas
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astronomía, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
G.F. Bisiacchi
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astronomía, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
F. Paresce
Affiliation:
Space Telescope Science Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD USA

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The new detector MEPSICRON (microchannel electron position sensor with time resolution) is an image photomultiplier sensor for high spatial and time resolution, working in a photon counting regime. It has been especially designed for deep sky photometric pictures, for high resolution spectrophotometry with single or crossed dispersion spectrographs for long slit spectroscopic techniques, for high time resolution pictures and spectrophotometry especially related with speckles techniques and very fast varying sources as pulsars, and for Fabry-Pérot interferometry.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1984

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