The Kitt Peak Electron Multiplying CCD (EMCCD) demonstrator is a new instrument that has been developed for use at the Kitt Peak National Observatory's 84-inch telescope. The EMCCD enables single-band optical imaging in the Sloan \textit{g} and \textit{r} bands and Johnson \textit{UVRI} filters. The EMCCD is chosen for its sub-electron effective read noise using large multiplicative gains. As a result, frame rates of greater than 1\,Hz are possible. The field-of-view is 4.4′× 4.4′ and the pixel size is 0.259′′. This camera, coupled with a fully roboticized telescope, is ideal for follow-up of short period, white dwarf binary candidates, as well as short duration transient and periodic sources identified by large field-of-view all-sky surveys such as the Zwicky Transient Facility.
@article{arxiv.1901.04625,
title = {The Kitt Peak Electron Multiplying CCD demonstrator},
author = {Michael W. Coughlin and Richard G. Dekany and Dmitry A. Duev and Michael Feeney and S. R. Kulkarni and Reed Riddle and Tomás Ahumada and Kevin Burdge and Alison M. Dugas and Christoffer U. Fremling and Gregg Hallinan and Thomas A. Prince and Jan van Roestel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.04625},
year = {2019}
}