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ULTRACAM - an ultra-fast, triple-beam CCD camera
Vik Dhillon, Tom Marsh, the ULTRACAM team
ULTRACAM is an ultra-fast, triple-beam CCD camera which has been designed to study one of the few remaining unexplored regions of observational parameter space - high temporal reso…
astro-ph2001
The Recurrent Nova U Scorpii - A Type Ia Supernova Progenitor
T. D. Thoroughgood, V. S. Dhillon, S. P. Littlefair +2
We derive the mass of the white dwarf in the eclipsing recurrent nova U Sco from the radial velocity semi-amplitudes of the primary and secondary stars. Our results give a high whi…