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The Astronomical Potential of Optical Superconducting Detectors

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The operational principles, current experimental status, and astronomical potential of a promising new class of optical photon detector based on superconductors is presented.

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  1. Space Science Department of ESA ESTEC, Astrophysics Division, 2200AG, Noordwijk, The Netherlands

    M.A.C. Perryman, A. Peacock, N. Rando & P. Verhoeve

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Perryman, M., Peacock, A., Rando, N. et al. The Astronomical Potential of Optical Superconducting Detectors. Experimental Astronomy 7, 407–411 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1007905824353

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