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.