The Vulcan Photometer: A Dedicated Photometer for Extrasolar Planet Searches

Detecting Reflected Light from Close-In Extrasolar Giant Planets with the Kepler Photometer

NASA’s Kepler Mission promises to detect transiting Earth-sized planets in the habitable zones of solar-like stars. In addition, it will be poised to detect the reflected light component from close-in extrasolar giant planets (CEGPs) similar to 51 Peg b. Here we use the DIARAD/SOHO time series along with models for the reflected light signatures of CEGPs to evaluate Kepler’s ability to detect s...

A lithium internal-standard flame photometer.

OPTIMA: A Photon Counting High-Speed Photometer

OPTIMA is a small, versatile high-speed photometer which is primarily intended for time resolved observations of young high energy pulsars at optical wavelengths. The detector system consists of eight fiber fed photon counters based on avalanche photodiodes, a GPS timing receiver, an integrating CCD camera to ensure the correct pointing of the telescope and a computerized control unit. Since Ja...

PhotoMeter: Easy-to-use MonoGraphoMetrics

MonoGraphoMetrics is the science of computing 3D measures from a single image. Several recent research activities have produced theoretical principles and practical tools for extracting 3D measures from uncalibrated photographs. These tools require that the user identifies configurations of edges, which are used to establish constraints or to identify planes in the scene. The process involved i...

SPS: a software simulator for the Herschel-SPIRE photometer

Aims. Instrument simulators are becoming ever more useful for planning and analysing large astronomy survey data. In this paper we present a simulator for the Herschel-SPIRE photometer. We describe the models it uses and the form of the input and output data. Methods. The SPIRE photometer simulator is a software package which uses theoretical models, along with flight model test data, to perfor...