Open AccessA New Fast Silicon Photomultiplier Photometer
Author(s) -
F. Meddi,
Filippo Ambrosino,
C. Rossi,
R. Nesci,
S. Sclavi,
A. C. Ruggieri,
S. Sestito,
I. Bruni,
R. Gualandi
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
acta polytechnica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.207
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 1805-2363
pISSN - 1210-2709
DOI - 10.14311/1476
Subject(s) - photometer , silicon photomultiplier , instrumentation (computer programming) , pulsar , crab pulsar , photomultiplier , physics , remote sensing , optics , detector , astrophysics , computer science , geology , scintillator , operating system
The Crab pulsar is one of the most intensively studied X-ray/optical objects, but up to now only a small number of research groups have based their photometers on SiPM technology. In early February 2011, the Crab pulsar signal was observed with our photometer prototype. With low-cost instrumentation, the results of the analysis are very significant: the processed data acquired on the Crab pulsar gave both a good light curve and a good power spectrum, in comparison with the data analysis results of other more expensive photometer instrumentation.