ULTRACAM operations

ULTRACAM 操作

• 批准号: PP/D002370/1
• 负责人: Vikram Singh Dhillon
• 金额: $ 18.88万
• 依托单位: University of Sheffield
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2006 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=PP%2FD002370%2F1
• 关键词: ULTRACAM; operations

ULTRACAM is a digital camera capable of taking (and storing) up to 500 red, green and blue images per second. The instrument was built in just under 3 years by a consortium from the Universities of Sheffield, Warwick and the UK Astronomy Technology Centre in Edinburgh, using a £300,000 grant awarded by PPARC. ULTRACAM saw 'first light' on 16 May 2002 on the 4.2-m William Herschel Telescope (WHT) on La Palma, and first light on the 8.2-m Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile on 4 May 2005. To date, ULTRACAM has been awarded a total of 92 nights of time on these telescopes for projects as varied as white dwarfs, brown dwarfs, asteroseismology, pulsars, black-hole/neutron-star X-ray binaries, eclipsing binary stars, gamma-ray bursts, cataclysmic variables, extrasolar planets, active galactic nuclei, Kuiper Belt objects and Saturn's moon Titan. This grant proposal requests funding for the proper maintenance and operation of ULTRACAM, as well as a modest programme of minor upgrades, thereby ensuring that ULTRACAM maintains its position as the world's premier instrument for high-speed optical astrophysics. As well as maximising the return on PPARC's original investment, this money will also allow us to continue to offer ULTRACAM to others in the UK and astronomical community who wish to use it.

ULTRACAM是一款能够每秒拍摄(和存储)高达500张红色、绿色和蓝色图像的数码相机。这台仪器是由谢菲尔德大学、华威大学和英国爱丁堡天文技术中心组成的一个财团在不到3年的时间里用PPARC授予的30万GB赠款建造的。ULTRACAM于2002年5月16日在拉帕尔马的4.2米威廉·赫歇尔望远镜(WHT)上看到了第一缕曙光，并于2005年5月4日在智利的8.2米甚大望远镜(VLT)上看到了第一缕曙光。到目前为止，ULTRACAM已经获得了在这些望远镜上总共92个晚上的时间，项目包括白矮星、棕矮星、星震学、脉冲星、黑洞/中子星X射线双星、日食双星、伽马射线爆发、灾难性变星、太阳系外行星、活动星系核、柯伊伯带天体和土星的卫星土卫六。这项赠款提案要求为ULTRACAM的适当维护和操作提供资金，并进行适度的小规模升级计划，从而确保ULTRACAM保持其作为世界上高速光学天体物理主要仪器的地位。除了最大化PPARC的原始投资回报，这笔钱还将使我们能够继续向希望使用ULTRACAM的英国和天文社区的其他人提供ULTRACAM。

项目成果

ULTRACAM photometry of the ultracompact binaries V407 Vul and HM Cnc

• DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.11244.x
• 发表时间: 2006-11
• 期刊: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
• 影响因子: 4.8
• 作者: S. Barros;T. Marsh;V. Dhillon;P. Groot;S. Littlefair;G. Nelemans;G. Roelofs;D. Steeghs;P. Wheat

A stellar flare during the transit of the extrasolar planet OGLE-TR-10b

太阳系外行星 OGLE-TR-10b 凌日期间的恒星耀斑

• DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912257
• 发表时间: 2009
• 期刊: Astronomy & Astrophysics
• 影响因子: 6.5
• 作者: Bentley S

High-speed colourimetry of the subdwarf B star SDSS J171722.08+58055.8 with ULTRACAM

使用 ULTRACAM 对亚矮星 B 星 SDSS J171722.08 58055.8 进行高速比色测定

• DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10051.x
• 发表时间: 2006
• 期刊: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
• 影响因子: 4.8
• 作者: Aerts C

A Systematic Search of Zwicky Transient Facility Data for Ultracompact Binary LISA-detectable Gravitational-wave Sources

• DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/abc261
• 发表时间: 2020-09
• 期刊: The Astrophysical Journal
• 作者: K. Burdge;T. Prince;J. Fuller;D. Kaplan;T. Marsh;P. Tremblay;Z. Zhuang;E. Bellm;I. Caiazzo

Fast quasi-periodic oscillations in the eclipsing polar VV Puppis from VLT and XMM-Newton observations

来自 VLT 和 XMM-Newton 观测的食极 VV Puppis 中的快速准周期振荡

• DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201935741
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Astronomy & Astrophysics
• 影响因子: 6.5
• 作者: Bonnet-Bidaud J