The Lightspeed project: high-speed, ultra-low read noise imaging and polarimetry for the Magellan telescopes

Christopher Layden, Kevin Burdge, John J. Piotrowski +12

Lightspeed will be an ultra-fast (> kHz), ultra-low read noise, multicolor (ugriz + IR) imager for the 6.5 meter Magellan Clay telescope. In a single-channel configuration, Lightsp…