A Portable High-Speed Optical Data Acquisition System for   Studies of Compact Objects and Planetary Occultations
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This award provides funds to build a portable, high-speed data                  acquisition system to obtain photometric data at astronomical                   observatories on time scales as short as 0.1 millisecond.                       Because the thermal and dynamical time scales of a number of                    important astrophysical objects can be as short as fractions of a               millisecond, the increased time resolution offered by this system               will allow investigations of the temporal properties of a variety               of objects, including young supernovae such as SN1987A, accretion               disks, pulsars, and accreting compact objects, not otherwise                    possible.                                                                                                                                                       While bright supernovae are discovered two  or three times each                 millenia, the February 1987 explosion of supernova 1987A in                     opportunity.  this object is the brightest supernova in three                   centuries and the probability that it harbors a rapidly spinning                neutron star at its center is very high.  Observations of rapidly               rotating neutron stars can yield a wealth of information,                       including insight into the general properties of condensed matter               at nuclear densities.
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