The University of Maryland Proposal to Develop Digital Data Handling and Processing Equipment for LLL Sensors in the Pre-Detection Compensation and MAAI Systems.

摘要

The University of Maryland has developed a specialized data system for the operational and the recording requirements of the Multi-Aperture Amplitude Interferometer. The primary role of this data system is the operation of the University of Maryland Array Photometer. This array photometer is essentially an extremely sensitive low light level television, with special requirements on its various modes of operation. Thus we shall discuss its ability to take long integration pictures, scan rapidly, and partially scan an array. This procedure will increase the dynamic range by a factor as large as one hundred and will increase the frame rate up as high as several thousand frames per second. Several other special techniques which have been developed for the University of Maryland Array Photometer will be discussed and some of the results described. (Author)