OPTICAM: a triple-camera optical system designed to explore the fastest timescales in Astronomy

A. Castro; D. Altamirano; R. Michel; P. Gandhi; J. V. Hernández Santisteban; J. Echevarría; C. Tejada; C. Knigge; G. Sierra; E. Colorado; J. Hernández-Landa; D. Whiter; M. Middleton; B. García; G. Guisa; N. Castro Segura

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OPTICAM: a triple-camera optical system designed to explore the fastest timescales in Astronomy

A. Castro, D. Altamirano, R. Michel, P. Gandhi, J. V. Hernández Santisteban, J. Echevarría, C. Tejada, C. Knigge, G. Sierra, E. Colorado, J. Hernández-Landa, D. Whiter, M. Middleton, B. García, G. Guisa, N. Castro Segura

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We report the development of a high-time resolution, 3-colour, simultaneous optical imaging system for the 2.1 m telescope in San Pedro Mártir Observatory, México. OPTICAM will be equipped with three Andor Zyla 4.2-Plus sCMOS cameras and a set of SDSS filters allowing optical coverage in the 320-1,100 nm range. OPTICAM will nominally allow sub-second exposures. Given its instrumental design, a wide range of fast-variability astrophysical sources can be targeted with OPTICAM including X-ray binaries, pulsating white dwarfs, accreting compact objects, eclipsing binaries and exoplanets. OPTICAM observations will be proprietary for only six months and will then be made publicly available for the astronomical community.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	363-376
Journal	Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica
Volume	55
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.22201/ia.01851101p.2019.55.02.20
Publication status	Published - 31 Oct 2019

Keywords

Accretion, accretion discs
Instrumentation: photometers
Stars: imaging
Telesccopes

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Castro, A., Altamirano, D., Michel, R., Gandhi, P., Hernández Santisteban, J. V., Echevarría, J., Tejada, C., Knigge, C., Sierra, G., Colorado, E., Hernández-Landa, J., Whiter, D., Middleton, M., García, B., Guisa, G., & Castro Segura, N. (2019). OPTICAM: a triple-camera optical system designed to explore the fastest timescales in Astronomy. Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica, 55(2), 363-376. https://doi.org/10.22201/ia.01851101p.2019.55.02.20

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