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Flare Star Observations with a Single-Photon Counting Imaging Detector

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Donald E. Casperson ,
William C. Priedhorsky ,
Miles H. Baron  and
Cheng Ho
Donald E. Casperson
Affiliation:
Astrophysics and Radiation Measurements Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos NM 87545, USA
William C. Priedhorsky
Affiliation:
Astrophysics and Radiation Measurements Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos NM 87545, USA
Miles H. Baron
Affiliation:
Astrophysics and Radiation Measurements Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos NM 87545, USA
Cheng Ho
Affiliation:
Astrophysics and Radiation Measurements Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos NM 87545, USA

Abstract

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At Los Alamos National Laboratory we are developing a new imaging sensor which combines high spatial and high temporal resolution over a large area format, while maintaining single-photon counting sensitivity and sustaining a high count rate. The detector is called a microchannel plate with crossed delay line readout, or MCP/CDL. This detector is ideally suited to the observation of weak transient events, such as stellar flares from red dwarf flare stars in our Galaxy. At present we are initiating an experiment with the MCP/CDL detector which will utilize a 30-cm aperture f/7 telescope to characterize U-band, B-band, and V-band emission from such low-luminosity flare stars, and to search for weak optical transients associated with other astrophysical sources.

Type
Flares in Late-type Stars: Radio and Optical
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 151: Flares and Flashes , 1995 , pp. 125 - 128
Copyright
Copyright © Springer-Verlag 1995

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