High Time Resolution Astrophysics [Paperback]

This is quite simply the first volume of its kind dedicated to the area of high time resolution astrophysics. High time resolution astrophysics (HTRA) is an important new window on the universe and a vital tool in understanding a range of phenomena from diverse objects and radiative processes. Underlining this science foundation, technological developments in both instrumentation and detectors are described.

High Time Resolution Astrophysics (HTRA) is an important new window to the universe and a vital tool in understanding a range of phenomena from diverse objects and radiative processes. This importance is demonstrated in this volume with the description of a number of topics in astrophysics, including quantum optics, cataclysmic variables, pulsars, X-ray binaries and stellar pulsations to name a few. Underlining this science foundation, technological developments in both instrumentation and detectors are described. These instruments and detectors combined cover a wide range of timescales and can measure fluxes, spectra and polarisation. These advances make it possible for HTRA to make a big contribution to our understanding of the Universe in the next decade.

- 'AquEye', Cesare Barbieri, Department of Astronomy, University of Padova.- 'FP7 and building the OPTICON proposal', John Davies, United Kingdom Astronomy Technology Centre, Edinburgh.- 'ELT Design Study activities on Instrumentation', Sandro D'Odorico, European Southern Observatory.- 'Quantum Optics in Astronomy', Dainis Dravins, Lund Observatory, Lund University.- 'ULTRACAM', Vik Dhillon, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Sheffield.- 'HTR in stellar pulsations', Simon Jeffery, Armagh Observatory, Northern Ireland.- ' The OPTIMA photo-polarimeter', Gottfried Kanbach, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching.- 'Cataclysmic Variables', Stuart Littlefair, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, University of Sheffield.- 'High Speed Optical Splc§