QUANTUM OPTICS FOR ASTRONOMY

• The paper which is at the deep roots of our 'quantum communication' activities figures in the list of the 21 most prominent papers published by Nature in 2007 (see the web site of UPd University, http://www.unipd.it/area_news/fotoni_canarie.htm, in Italian).
  The link to Nature is www.nature.com/nature/journal/v450/n7173/full/4501130a.html under Quantum cryptography: Canary communication)
  
  
• Taking advantage of the good weather in Asiago, the 'quantum astronomy' demonstrator for the 182 cm telescope (which we call Aqueye) was intensively used from Dec. 14 to Dec. 19, acquiring several hours of data from the pulsar in the Crab Nebula.
  We attach here two preliminary figures, one displaying the autocorrelation function of the signal, the other the light curve, with a 33 msec period.

Autocorrelation Function	Light Curve