An Astronomical Test of CCD Photometric Precision

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Feb 2001

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001phot.work...95k&link_type=abstract

Third Workshop on Photometry, p. 95

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Photometry, Precision, Performance Tests, Shot Noise, Telescopes, Prisms, Extinction, Charge Coupled Devices, Beam Splitters, Atmospheric Effects, Astronomy

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Ground-based differential photometry is limited to a precision of order 10-3 because of atmospheric effects. A space-based photometer should be limited only by the inherent instrument precision and shot noise. Laboratory tests have shown that a precision of order 10-5 is achievable with commercially available charged coupled devices (CCDs). We have proposed to take this one step further by performing measurements at a telescope using a Wollaston prism as a beam splitter First-order atmospheric effects (e.g., extinction) will appear to be identical in the two images of each star formed by the prism and will be removed in the data analysis. This arrangement can determine the precision that is achievable under the influence of second-order atmospheric effects (e.g., variable point-spread function (PSF) from seeing). These telescopic observations will thus provide a lower limit to the precision that can be realized by a space-based differential photometer.

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