The universe at sub-second timescales : high time resolution astrophysics : Edinburgh, Scotland 11-13 September 2007 /

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Imprint:Melville, N.Y. : American Institute of Physics, 2008.
Description:1 online resource (ix, 284 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Language:English
Series:AIP conference proceedings ; 984
AIP conference proceedings ; no. 984.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11321700
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Varying Form of Title:High time resolution astrophysics
Other authors / contributors:Phelan, Don.
Ryan, Oliver.
Shearer, Andrew.
ISBN:9780735405035
0735405034
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • X-Ray Binaries And Cataclysmic Variables
  • High Time Resolution Optical, UV, and IR Observations of X-ray Binaries
  • Bowen Blend Echo-tomography of Low Mass X-ray Binaries
  • On the Evolutionary Status of Short Period Cataclysmic Variables
  • High Time Resolution Observations of Cataclysmic Variables with Optima
  • Pulsars
  • Modeling Rotation Phase-resolved Observations of Neutron Star Surfaces
  • Optical Polarization of the Crab Pulsar: Precision Measurements and Comparison to the Radio Emission
  • Transients
  • Recent Discoveries in the Dynamic Radio Sky
  • Monitoring with High Temporal Resolution to Search for Optical Transients in the Wide Field
  • Transits/Occulatations
  • High-cadence Transit Timing Observations of Extrasolar Planets
  • Recent Stellar Occultation Observations Using High-speed, Portable Camera Systems
  • New Detectors And Instrumentation
  • High Time Resolution Astronomical Observations with the Berkeley Visible Image Tube
  • PnCCDs for Ultra-fast and Ultra-sensitive Optical and NIR Imaging
  • Optima-Burst: Observing GRB Afterglows and Other Fast Transients with High Time Resolution
  • Ultraspec: High-speed Spectroscopy with Zero Readout Noise
  • Microsecond Time Resolution Optical Photometry Using a H.E.S.S. Cherenkov Telescope
  • Monte Carlo Modeling of L3 Detectors in High Time Resolution Applications
  • Development and Use of an L3CCD High-cadence Imaging System for Optical Astronomy
  • The Superiority of L3-CCDs in the High-flux and Wide Dynamic Range Regimes
  • Wide Field Survey for Sub-second Optical Variability
  • Position-sensitive Detector with GaAs Photocathode and High Time Resolution
  • Devices and Software for Optical Panoramic Observations with Microsecond Time Resolution
  • Future Topics
  • Stellar Intensity Interferometry with Air Cherenkov Telescope Arrays
  • Photon Correlation Spectroscopy for Observing Natural Lasers
  • High Time Resolution Astrophysics and Extremely Large Telescopes
  • Posters
  • Optimised Post-exposure Image Sharpening Code for L3-CCD Detectors
  • Design, Construction, and Calibration of the Galway Astronomical Stokes Polarimeter (GASP)
  • Design of a Steerable Two-beam System for Simultaneous On-and Off-axis Imaging with GUFI
  • SWIFT J1753.5-0127: Orbital Period, High-frequency Timing Analysis and Multi-band Observations
  • On the Orbital Period of the Magnetic Cataclysmic Variable HU Aquarii
  • The Potential for Intensity Interfermetry with ¿-ray Telescope Arrays
  • Gamma-ray Spectroscopy with Microsecond Time Resolution Using Global Fit Analysis
  • FORS2 HIT Mode: Phase Resolved Spectroscopy of RXJ0806.3+1527
  • Author Index