Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2012-01-27
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
To appear in the proceedings of IAU symposium number 285; New Horizons in Time Domain Astronomy, eds. R.E.M Griffin, R. J. Han
Scientific paper
ARCONS, the Array Camera for Optical to Near-infrared Spectrophotometry, was recently commissioned at the Coude focus of the 200-inch Hale Telescope at the Palomar Observatory. At the heart of this unique instrument is a 1024-pixel Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detector (MKID), exploiting the Kinetic Inductance effect to measure the energy of the incoming photon to better than several percent. The ground-breaking instrument is lens-coupled with a pixel scale of 0.23"/pixel, with each pixel recording the arrival time (<2 microsec) and energy of a photon (~10%) in the optical to near-IR (0.4-1.1 microns) range. The scientific objectives of the instrument include the rapid follow-up and classification of the transient phenomena.
Bumble Bruce
Mazin Benjamin A.
McHugh Sean
Meeker Seth
O'Brien Kieran
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