Scientific Detectors for Astronomy: The Beginning of a New Era

A Golden Era for Astronomy: The Advent of CCDS and Infrared Arrays....Pages 1-8
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
Overview of Astronomy Arrays at Raytheon Infrared Operations (RIO)....Pages 11-20
A New Photon Counting Detector: Intensified CMOS-APS....Pages 21-28
Preliminary Test Measurements of the SPAD Array....Pages 29-32
Preliminary Characterization of Two High-Speed, Back-Illuminated CCD Image Sensors....Pages 33-40
Broadband (200–1000 NM) Back-Illuminated CCD Imagers....Pages 41-50
Orion: A 1–5 Micron Focal Plane for the 21 st Century....Pages 51-58
Performance of 5 Micron, Molecular Beam Epitaxy HgCdTe Sensor Chip Assemblies (SCAs) for the NGST Mission and Ground-Based Astronomy....Pages 59-80
Cosmic Rays and Other Nonsense in Astronomical CCD Imagers....Pages 81-94
An Overview of CCD Development at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory....Pages 95-102
Scientific CMOS Pixels....Pages 103-114
Secrets of E2V Technologies CCDs....Pages 115-122
Progress in Ultra-Low Noise Hybrid and Monolithic FPAs for Visible and Infrared....Pages 123-130
A Marconi CCD42-40 with Anti-Blooming....Pages 131-136
Very Large Format Back Illuminated CCDS....Pages 137-144
Compound Semiconductor Detectors....Pages 145-148
Optical Photon-Counting STJ Activities at ESA....Pages 149-154
Silicon-on-Insulator-Based Single-Chip Image Sensors....Pages 155-162
Large Format and Scientific Detectors at Fairchild Imaging....Pages 163-174
HgCdTe Detectors for the Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Camera 3 IR Channel....Pages 175-182
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
CMOS Active Pixel Sensor Developments at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory....Pages 183-194
Front Matter....Pages 195-195
Eso’s Optical Detector Sytems in the VLT Operations Era....Pages 197-204
The Detector Systems of the Keck Observatory: UV to 25 Microns....Pages 205-218
IR Detector Developments at Eso....Pages 219-224
Controller Developments....Pages 225-229
Detector Work at the UKATC....Pages 231-238
CCD Camera Systems for the GTC....Pages 239-246
Detectors at CTIO: Present Status and Future Plans....Pages 247-254
Strange Happenings in the Dungeons....Pages 255-260
NOAO Observatory Plans....Pages 261-268
MONSOON Image Acquisition System....Pages 269-276
Front Matter....Pages 277-277
Improved CCD Detectors for High Speed, Charge Exchange Spectroscopy Studies on the DIII-D Tokamak....Pages 279-282
A CCD Wavefront Sensing System for the ESO Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics Demonstrator (MAD)....Pages 283-286
CFHT’s Skyprobe: True Atmospheric Attenuation Measurement in the Telescope Field....Pages 287-298
CFHT’s Flyeyes: Assessing On-sky Performance of the New MIT/LL CCID-35 CCD Curvature Wavefront Sensor....Pages 299-304
Ultra-Clean CCD Cryostats....Pages 305-310
The Impact of Astronomy Technologies on Chemical Analysis....Pages 311-318
A CCD-based Curvature Wavefront Sensor for Adaptive Optics in Astronomy....Pages 319-323
Performance and Results of the NAOS Visible Wavefront Sensor....Pages 325-333
Fabry Perot Observations Using a New G a A s Photon Counting System....Pages 335-340
Front Matter....Pages 277-277
Near IR Fringe Tracking for VLTI: the FINITO Detection System....Pages 341-344
OSIRIS Detectors....Pages 345-348
The Optimized Cryostat for the LBC Camera....Pages 349-366
The Omegacam Shutter....Pages 367-370
Ultra-Deep Optical Spectroscopy with PMAS....Pages 371-378
The Tololo all Sky Camera....Pages 379-384
The Orthogonal Parallel Imaging Transfer Camera....Pages 385-394
Giga-Pixels and Sky Surveys....Pages 395-402
The Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Camera 3 Instrument Charge-Coupled Device Detectors....Pages 403-406
Camera and Detector Development in the Space Science and Technology Department of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory....Pages 407-412
Compact CCD Camera....Pages 413-416
Front Matter....Pages 417-417
The Design and Testing of a Cryogenic Pre-amplifier for the Rockwell HAWAII and HAWAII-II Detector Arrays....Pages 419-422
The New Generation CCD Controller: First Results....Pages 423-426
ISPI Software....Pages 427-430
Compact CCD Guider Camera for Magelian....Pages 431-434
Readout Techniques for Drift and Low Frequency Noise Rejection in Infrared Arrays....Pages 435-444
AzCam: A Windows-Based CCD/CMOS Client/Server Data Acquisition System....Pages 445-448
Upgrade of Eso’s Fiera CCD Controller and Pulpo Subsystem....Pages 449-452
An Optimized Data Acquisition System Without Reset Anomaly for the Hawaii and Hawaii-2 Arrays....Pages 453-458
GTC Acquisition Cameras and Wavefront Sensors....Pages 459-462
Front Matter....Pages 417-417
A New CCD Controller at UCO/Lich Observatory....Pages 463-466
The use of ASIC Thecnology in the Development of Compact, Low-Power CCD Cameras....Pages 467-477
Front Matter....Pages 479-479
Characterization of the Si: As Blocked Impurity Band (BIB) Detector in Keck’s Long Wavelength Spectrometer (LWS)....Pages 481-484
Characterizing the CCDS of the Omegacam Wide-Angle Camera....Pages 485-488
Emir HAWAII-2 Detector Test Bench....Pages 489-492
Emir HAWAII-II First Test Results....Pages 493-496
Test Results with 2K×2K MCT Arrays....Pages 497-500
The HAWAII-2 2048×2048 HgCdTe Detector Arrays....Pages 501-510
How Accurate Are QE Measurements?....Pages 511-514
Front Matter....Pages 515-515
The Electronic Controller of the 40 CCDS MegaCam Mosaic....Pages 517-522
Design of the CRIRES 512×4096 Pixel Aladdin InSB Focal Plane Array Detector Mosaic....Pages 523-528
Performance of HAWAII-2 FPA for Subaru Multi-Object Near-Infrared Camera and Spectrograph....Pages 529-534
Wide Field Focal Plane Arrays for UKIRT and VISTA....Pages 535-538
Fully Buttable Imagers....Pages 539-546
Mosaic Focal Plane Development....Pages 547-552
Front Matter....Pages 553-553
In-flight Performance of the Advanced Camera for Surveys CCDS....Pages 555-564
On the Implementation and Calibration of the Focal Plane for GAIA....Pages 565-572
Behaviour of a Raytheon IRFPA (438×270) under High Energy Protons....Pages 573-576
Radiation Damage Effects in XMM-Newton Epic Mos CCDs....Pages 577-580
95 Million Pixel Focal Plane for Use on the Kepler Discovery Mission....Pages 581-590
Front Matter....Pages 591-591
L3CCDs: Fast Photon Counting for Optical Interferometry....Pages 593-598
L3CCD’s: Low Readout Noise CCDs in Astronomy....Pages 599-602
Zero Noise CCD....Pages 603-610
First Results of an L3CCD in Photon Counting Mode....Pages 611-614