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Optical Detectors For Astronomy II

State-of-the-Art at the Turn of the Millennium

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  • © 2000

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  1. Paola Amico

    1. European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany

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  2. James W. Beletic

    1. European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany

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Part of the book series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library (ASSL, volume 252)

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Table of contents (41 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
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  2. The Invention and Early History of the CCD

    1. The Invention and Early History of the CCD

      • Paola Amico, James W. Beletic
      Pages 1-4

  3. Hail to the Victors (CCDs): The history of optical detectors in astronomy from the 1960’s to the present.

    1. Hail to the Victors (CCDs): The history of optical detectors in astronomy from the 1960’s to the present.

      • Guy Monnet
      Pages 5-10

  4. Observatory Plans

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. Detectors at the Nordic Optical Telescope

      • Timothy M. C. Abbott
      Pages 13-14

    3. Mission accomplished — ESO’s optical detector systems come of age

      • James W. Beletic
      Pages 15-23

    4. Charge coupled devices at ESO — Performances and results

      • Cyril Cavadore, Reinhold J. Dorn, W. Jamew Beletic
      Pages 25-43

    5. CCD Systems for PMAS

      • T. Fechner, D. Wolter, M. M. Roth
      Pages 45-50

    6. GTC — Present status and future plans

      • Ralf Kohley
      Pages 51-53

    7. CCDs for the Rosetta Science Imaging System OSIRIS

      • J. Rainer Kramm, H. Uwe Keller
      Pages 55-62

    8. CCD plans for the Subaru Telescope

      • Satoshi Miyazaki
      Pages 63-69

    9. CTIO Detectors: Present Status and Future Plans

      • Ricardo E. Schmidt
      Pages 71-75

    10. COROT: High photometry stability with CCDs

      • D. Tiphene, M. Adda, M. Auvergne, T. Buey, G. Epstein, D. Rouan et al.
      Pages 77-90

  5. Mosaic Projects

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91
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    2. CFH12K: Optimising 12 MIT/LL CCID-20 CCDs for a direct imaging application

      • Jean-Charles Cuillandre, Barry Starr, Sidik Isani, Gerard Luppino
      Pages 93-109

    3. MegaCam: The next generation wide-field camera for CFHT

      • J. de Kat, S. Aune, O. Boulade, P. Borgeaud, P.-H. Carton, M. Carty et al.
      Pages 111-117

    4. The current state of the art in large CCD mosaic cameras, and a new strategy for wide field, high resolution optical imaging

      • Gerard A. Luppino, John Tonry, Nick Kaiser
      Pages 119-132

    5. CCD Mosaicing technique for Suprime-Cam (SUbaru PRIME focus CAMera)

      • Fumiaki Nakata, Satoshi Miyazaki, Norio Okada, Masahiko Kimura, Maki Sekiguchi
      Pages 133-142

    6. BUSCA: A simultaneous 4 colour camera with 4K×4K CCDs

      • K. Reif, H. Poschmann, Bagschik, O. Cordes, D. Harbeck, P. Müller
      Pages 143-147

    7. Focal Plane Array Design for the GAIA Space Mission

      • O. Saint-Pé, P. Mérat, F. Safa, O. Pace, M. A. C. Perryman
      Pages 149-163
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th The 4 ESO CCO Workshop, Optical Detectors for Astronomy, was held during September 13-16, 1999 at its usual location, the headquarters of the European Southern Observatory in Garching, Germany. We prefer to remember this workshop as a "meeting of friends", who came to Garching to visit ESO and to present their work, rather than a formal meeting. Based on our experience with the 1996 ESO CCO workshop, we deliberately put emphasis on creating an environment that encouraged the participants to stay together and informally exchange ideas. These informal events began with a tour of the BWM auto factory and continued with a reception at "SchloB Beletic", the conference dinner at a real SchloB of the Bavarian International School (where the participants enjoyed basket, baseball, table soccer, rock climbing and eventually dancing) and concluded with a tour of the Paulaner Brewery and dinner at the Seehaus in the Englisher Garten. The lunch "Biergarten", adjacent to the poster session area, was a daily meeting point. The result was a good mixture of excellent presentations and posters, collected in these Proceedings, and many occasions for people to get in touch and to have fun together, as witnessed by the selection of workshop pictures that we randomly placed between papers. This book contains a special contribution.

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  • European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany

    Paola Amico, James W. Beletic

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