First Lunar Occultation Results from the 2.4 m Thai National Telescope equipped with ULTRASPEC
@article{Richichi2014FirstLO, title={First Lunar Occultation Results from the 2.4 m Thai National Telescope equipped with ULTRASPEC}, author={A Richichi and P. Irawati and Boonrucksar Soonthornthum and Vik S. Dhillon and Thomas R. Marsh}, journal={arXiv: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics}, year={2014} }
The recently inaugurated 2.4\,m Thai National Telescope (TNT) is equipped, among other instruments, with the ULTRASPEC low-noise, frame-transfer EMCCD camera. At the end of its first official observing season, we report on the use of this facility to record high time resolution imaging using small detector subarrays with sampling as fast as several $10^2$\,Hz. In particular, we have recorded lunar occultations of several stars which represent the first contribution to this area of research made…
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