Instrumentation - II
Vik Dhillon, University of Sheffield, UK

Lecture 1: ULTRACAM

• High time-resolution astrophysics (HTRA) - what is it and why study it?
• The detection of light - an introduction to CCDs
• Instrumentation for high-speed photometry I: ULTRACAM
• ULTRACAM: science highlights

Lecture 2: ULTRASPEC

• An introduction to EMCCDs
• Instrumentation for high-speed spectroscopy: ULTRASPEC on the ESO 3.6m and NTT
• Instrumentation for high-speed photometry II: ULTRASPEC on the TNT

Lecture 3: HiPERCAM

• How can we improve ULTRACAM and what would this enable us to do?
• Eliminating atmospheric scintillation noise: Conjugate-plane photometry
• Instrumentation for high-speed photometry III: HiPERCAM

Lecture 4: ULTRACAM data reduction pipeline

• Demonstration of how to reduce photometric data using the ULTRACAM pipeline software