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Observations of optical pulsars with two high time resolution photometers at Asiago and NTT

Authors :
Serena Gradari
Marta Burgay
Nicolò D’Amico
Paolo Esposito
Alberto Pellizzoni
Andrea Possenti
Source :
AIP Conference Proceedings.
Publication Year :
2011
Publisher :
AIP, 2011.

Abstract

We have built two single photon very high speed photometers (AquEYE for the Asiago 1.8 m telescope and IquEYE for the 3.5 m ESO NTT) as prototypes of a quantum photometer for the 42 m European Extremely Large Telescope (E‐ELT). The two photometers are the most accurate time machines available to optical astronomy. The arrival time of each detected photon is referenced to UTC with a precision better than 500 picoseconds, continuously for hours of data acquisition. We report timing results for three optical pulsars.

Details

ISSN :
0094243X
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
AIP Conference Proceedings
Accession number :
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Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3615133