Time Delay Integration: A Wide-Field Survey Technique (Poster abstract)
Volume 37 number 2 (2009)
- Robert La Pointe
- E. Hill
- L. Leimer
- K. McMillian
- A. Miller
- A. Prindle
Abstract
(Abstract only) The Advanced Placement Physics class of Orange Lutheran High School has conducted a survey-imaging project using a Time Delay Integration (TDI) technique. TDI enables very wide-field images to be collected in the form of long strips of the sky. A series of five consecutive nights were captured, calibrated, and compared to reveal possible transient phenomena such as supernovae, asteroids, and other events that have a noticeable change over 24-hour intervals.