Photometry with the Rapid Alternate Detection System

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Sep 1983

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Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Publications (ISSN 0004-6280), vol. 95, Sept. 1983, p. 666-673. Research supported by the N

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Astronomical Photometry, Electrophotometry, Variable Stars, Accuracy, Errors, Interstellar Extinction, Light Curve

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The photometric procedures, capabilities, and early results of the Rapid Alternate Detection System are presented and discussed. The RADS is an automated, chopping two-star photometry system, designed and constructed at the University of Calgary and currently in operation on the 41-cm telescope of the Rothney Astrophysical Observatory. The precision of the photometry is dependent upon Poisson statistics and the frequency bandwidth of the noise. The need for first-order extinction corrections is eliminated and a procedure for computing second-order extinction and transformation coefficients is demonstrated. Finally, light curves of the W UMa systems 44i Boo and RW Com, obtained on cloudy nights, are presented.

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