Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Dec 2003
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003aas...203.1707h&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society Meeting 203, #17.07; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 35, p.1235
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Scientific paper
Orthogonal Transfer CCDs (OTCCDs) are the wave of the future in astronomical imaging devices. They allow electronic tip-tilt, fast, low noise readout, and a number of novel photometry modes. Real-time charge shifting gives the modern planet hunter two main weapons with which to detect and study extra-solar planets. PSF shaping provides ultra-high precision photometric measurements of 1 mmag or better per few minutes of on-sky integration over an unlimited field of view. Video mode allows high speed, high precision observations reaching 1e-4 per minute of integration as well as allowing different integration times to be used simultaneously with a single OTCCD. We have successfully observed with these modes at the University of Hawaii's 2.2-m telescope on Mauna Kea and at the WIYN 3.5-m telescope on Kitt Peak. We will present results from our observations and discuss our extra-solar planet search program currently starting. We will also preview upcoming focal plane arrays of OTCCDs which will come to a telescope near you starting in mid-2004.
Howell Steve B.
Tonry John L.
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