• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Current Integrator for Astronomical Photoelectric Photometry
  • Beteiligte: Weitbrecht, Robert H.
  • Erschienen: AIP Publishing, 1957
  • Erschienen in: Review of Scientific Instruments, 28 (1957) 11, Seite 883-888
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.1715755
  • ISSN: 0034-6748; 1089-7623
  • Schlagwörter: Instrumentation
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  • Beschreibung: <jats:p>An integrator circuit is described, together with programmer and timer, which was constructed for measuring signal-current from a photomultiplier tube as used in astronomical photometry. At the end of a timed run, the voltage data are impressed upon a strip-chart pen recorder. The current-range of such instrument encompasses a span from 10−6 to 10−11 ampere, full scale, with stability and linearity. Furthermore, the design is such that, using a suitable programing circuit, any number of identical integrator units can be employed to measure a like number of separate phototube currents simultaneously over a given timed run; and afterwards the separate voltages are recorded in sequence upon the one recorder. This feature makes the herein described system very useful for simultaneous multicolor photoelectric photometry.</jats:p>