Ebook: Scientific Detectors for Astronomy: The Beginning of a New Era

Dear Friends, It seems like it was only yesterday that we drove the last of you to the airport. The memories and the spirit of the Scientific Detectors for Astronomy Workshop (SDW2002) remain fresh and strong. For us, this was a very special event, a great gathering of what may be one of the friendliest and most cooperative technical communities on our little planet. We have tried to capture the spirit of the Workshop in these Proceedings and we hope you are able to relive your week in Hawaii. For those readers who did not attend, we invite you into this community. As you probably noticed, there is a new name on the cover: Jenna Beletic was the ace up our sleeve for these Proceedings. As a summer intern at Keck, she took up the task of organizing, proofreading, editing and formatting the papers. She also made the graphics (her artistic talents shine on pages xxxiii and xxxv), contacted authors and prepared the mountain of paperwork which goes with producing a book. Jenna’s enthusiasm at learning, her passion for the job and creativity (e. g. find 100 ways to get Paola and Jim to do their jobs) have been a motivating addition to our team of “old workshop foxes”…… and a source for a good deal of paternal pride. We are honoured to have her as a fellow editor.

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These proceedings are from the fifth workshop of a series that concentrated on optical CCDs for the first four installments. At this workshop, for the first time, our "bandpass" was broadened to include infrared detectors. Every leading manufacturer, all major astronomical observatories and the experts in the field gathered on the Big Island of Hawaii for a week long workshop dedicated to scientific detectors for astronomy. This book captures the spirit of a unique event that was both an intensive exchange of technical information and a very friendly gathering of a cooperative community. The state-of-the-art papers include the latest technologies from detector manufacturers, observatory plans, instrumentation applications, electronics, extremely large focal planes, testing techniques and space missions.

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These proceedings are from the fifth workshop of a series that concentrated on optical CCDs for the first four installments. At this workshop, for the first time, our "bandpass" was broadened to include infrared detectors. Every leading manufacturer, all major astronomical observatories and the experts in the field gathered on the Big Island of Hawaii for a week long workshop dedicated to scientific detectors for astronomy. This book captures the spirit of a unique event that was both an intensive exchange of technical information and a very friendly gathering of a cooperative community. The state-of-the-art papers include the latest technologies from detector manufacturers, observatory plans, instrumentation applications, electronics, extremely large focal planes, testing techniques and space missions.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxxv
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 21st 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 GaAs 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
Back Matter....Pages 615-628

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These proceedings are from the fifth workshop of a series that concentrated on optical CCDs for the first four installments. At this workshop, for the first time, our "bandpass" was broadened to include infrared detectors. Every leading manufacturer, all major astronomical observatories and the experts in the field gathered on the Big Island of Hawaii for a week long workshop dedicated to scientific detectors for astronomy. This book captures the spirit of a unique event that was both an intensive exchange of technical information and a very friendly gathering of a cooperative community. The state-of-the-art papers include the latest technologies from detector manufacturers, observatory plans, instrumentation applications, electronics, extremely large focal planes, testing techniques and space missions.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxxv
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 21st 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 GaAs 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
Back Matter....Pages 615-628
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