The high-speed camera ULTRACAM

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Marsh, T. R. [1 ]
Dhillon, V. S. [2 ]
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[1] Univ Warwick, Dept Phys, Coventry CV4 7AL, W Midlands, England
[2] Univ Sheffield, Dept Phys & Astron, Sheffield S3 7RH, S Yorkshire, England
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high-speed photometry;
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ULTRACAM is a high-speed, tri-band CCD camera designed for observations of time variable celestial objects. Commissioned on the 4.2m WHT in La Palma, it has now been used for observations of many types of phenomena and objects including stellar occultations, accreting black-holes, neutron stars and white dwarfs, pulsars, eclipsing binaries and pulsating stars. In this paper we describe the salient features of ULTRACAM and discuss some of the results of its use.
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