32-megapixel dual-color CCD imaging system

Christopher W. Stubbs; Stuart L. Marshall; Kenneth H. Cook; Robert Hills; Joseph P. Noonan; Carl W. Akerlof; Charles R. Alcock; Timothy S. Axelrod; D. P. Bennett; K. Dagley; K. C. Freeman; Kim Griest; Hye-Sook Park; Saul Perlmutter; Bruce A. Peterson; Peter J. Quinn; Alex W. Rodgers; C. Sosin; W. J. Sutherland

doi:10.1117/12.148597

12 July 1993 32-megapixel dual-color CCD imaging system

Christopher W. Stubbs, Stuart L. Marshall, Kenneth H. Cook, Robert Hills, Joseph P. Noonan, Carl W. Akerlof, Charles R. Alcock, Timothy S. Axelrod, D. P. Bennett, K. Dagley, K. C. Freeman, Kim Griest, Hye-Sook Park, Saul Perlmutter, Bruce A. Peterson, Peter J. Quinn, Alex W. Rodgers, C. Sosin, W. J. Sutherland

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Proceedings Volume 1900, Charge-Coupled Devices and Solid State Optical Sensors III; (1993) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.148597
Event: IS&T/SPIE's Symposium on Electronic Imaging: Science and Technology, 1993, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

We have developed an astronomical imaging system that incorporates a total of eight 2048 X 2048 pixel CCDs into two focal planes, to allow simultaneous imaging in two colors. Each focal plane comprises four 'edge-buttable' detector arrays, on custom Kovar mounts. The clocking and bias voltage levels for each CCD are independently adjustable, but all the CCDs are operated synchronously. The sixteen analog outputs (two per chip) are measured at 16 bits with commercially available correlated double sampling A/D converters. The resulting 74 MBytes of data per frame are transferred over fiber optic links into dual-ported VME memory. The total readout time is just over one minute. We obtain read noise ranging from 6.5 e^- to 10 e^- for the various channels when digitizing at 34 Kpixels/sec, with full well depths (MPP mode) of approximately 100,000 e^- per 15 micrometers X 15 micrometers pixel. This instrument is currently being used in a search of gravitational microlensing from compact objects in our Galactic halo, using the newly refurbished 1.3 m telescope at the Mt. Stromlo Observatory, Australia.

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Christopher W. Stubbs, Stuart L. Marshall, Kenneth H. Cook, Robert Hills, Joseph P. Noonan, Carl W. Akerlof, Charles R. Alcock, Timothy S. Axelrod, D. P. Bennett, K. Dagley, K. C. Freeman, Kim Griest, Hye-Sook Park, Saul Perlmutter, Bruce A. Peterson, Peter J. Quinn, Alex W. Rodgers, C. Sosin, and W. J. Sutherland "32-megapixel dual-color CCD imaging system", Proc. SPIE 1900, Charge-Coupled Devices and Solid State Optical Sensors III, (12 July 1993); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.148597

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