{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/the-kitt-peak-electron-multiplying-ccd","title":"The Kitt Peak Electron Multiplying CCD demonstrator","arxiv_id":"1901.04625","date":"2019-01-15","proceeding":null,"authors":["Michael W. Coughlin","Richard G. Dekany","Dmitry A. Duev","Michael Feeney","S. R. Kulkarni","Reed Riddle","Tomás Ahumada","Kevin Burdge","Alison M. Dugas","Christoffer U. Fremling","Gregg Hallinan","Thomas A. Prince","Jan van Roestel"],"abstract":"The Kitt Peak Electron Multiplying CCD (EMCCD) demonstrator is a new instrument that has been developed for use at the Kitt Peak National Observatory's 84-inch telescope. The EMCCD enables single-band optical imaging in the Sloan \\textit{g} and \\textit{r} bands and Johnson \\textit{UVRI} filters. The EMCCD is chosen for its sub-electron effective read noise using large multiplicative gains. As a result, frame rates of greater than 1\\,Hz are possible. The field-of-view is 4.4$^\\prime$ $\\times$ 4.4$^\\prime$ and the pixel size is 0.259$^{\\prime\\prime}$. This camera, coupled with a fully roboticized telescope, is ideal for follow-up of short period, white dwarf binary candidates, as well as short duration transient and periodic sources identified by large field-of-view all-sky surveys such as the Zwicky Transient Facility.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1901.04625v1","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.04625v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"links_only","authors_date_abstract":"arXiv metadata, CC0 1.0 (https://info.arxiv.org/help/license), from the Kaggle arXiv metadata snapshot of 2026-09-12"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"the-kitt-peak-electron-multiplying-ccd","repo_url":"https://github.com/mcoughlin/kp84","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}