The Two-Colour EMCCD Instrument for the Danish 1.54m Telescope and SONG
Jesper Skottfelt, D. M. Bramich, M. Hundertmark, U. G. J{\o}rgensen,, N. Michaelsen, P. Kj{\ae}rgaard, J. Southworth, A. N. S{\o}rensen, M. F., Andersen, M. I. Andersen, J. Christensen-Dalsgaard, S. Frandsen, F. Grundahl,, K. B. W. Harps{\o}e, H. Kjeldsen, P. L. Pall\'e

TL;DR
This paper describes the design, implementation, and performance analysis of a two-colour EMCCD instrument installed at the Danish 1.54m telescope, demonstrating improved spatial resolution and high-precision photometry capabilities for astronomical observations.
Contribution
It introduces a novel two-colour EMCCD instrument, its control software, and performance evaluation, enabling enhanced imaging and photometry at the Danish and SONG telescopes.
Findings
Up to twofold improvement in spatial resolution with shift-and-add technique.
Successful high-precision photometry in crowded stellar fields.
Regular EMCCD operations have led to significant scientific discoveries.
Abstract
We report on the implemented design of a two-colour instrument based on electron multiplying CCD (EMCCD) detectors. This instrument is currently installed at the Danish 1.54m telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile, and will be available at the SONG (Stellar Observations Network Group) 1m telescope node at Tenerife and at other SONG nodes as well. We present the software system for controlling the two-colour instrument and calibrating the high frame-rate imaging data delivered by the EMCCD cameras. An analysis of the performance of the Two-Colour Instrument at the Danish telescope shows an improvement in spatial resolution of up to a factor of two when doing shift-and-add compared with conventional imaging, and that it is possible to do high-precision photometry of EMCCD data in crowded fields. The Danish telescope, which was commissioned in 1979, is limited by a triangular…
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