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The shutter for OmegaCam — the 16K×16K CCD mosaic camera for the 2.6-m ESO VLT Survey Telescope (VST) — is described. The OmegaCam is a high precision photometric slit type shutter with an aperture of 370 mm×292 mm. The device was designed and built at the University of Bonn. Performance measurements show that the shortest exposure time is less than 1 msec and that 100 msec exposures are homogeneous to within ± 0.3%.
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Reif, K., Klink, G., Müller, P., Poschmann, H. (2004). The Omegacam Shutter. In: Amico, P., Beletic, J.W., Beletic, J.E. (eds) Scientific Detectors for Astronomy. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 300. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-2527-0_44
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