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Deadtime

Volume 6 number 2 (1977)

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John Africano
Robert Quigley
Astronomy Deparment,

Abstract

The concept of deadtime in pulse-counting photometry is discussed, and a method for measuring is given. It is shown that a large error may result for bright stars if the deadtime correction is not applied.