MicroLux: high-precision timing of high-speed photometric observations

Felix Hormuth

doi:10.1117/12.787328

11 July 2008 MicroLux: high-precision timing of high-speed photometric observations

Felix Hormuth

Proceedings Volume 7014, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy II; 701446 (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.787328
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2008, Marseille, France

Abstract

MicroLux is a GPS-based high precision and high speed timing add-on to the Calar Alto Lucky Imaging camera AstraLux. It allows timestamping of individual CCD exposures at frame rates of more than 1 kHz with an accuracy better than one microsecond with respect to the UTC timeframe. The system was successfully used for high speed observations of the optical pulse profile of the Crab pulsar in January and November 2007. I present the technical design concept of MicroLux as well as first results from these observations, in particular the reconstructed pulse profile of the pulsar.

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Felix Hormuth "MicroLux: high-precision timing of high-speed photometric observations", Proc. SPIE 7014, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy II, 701446 (11 July 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.787328

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