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Experiments with Silicon Array Detectors in the RGO Coude Spectrograph

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Two detector systems, recently developed at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, have undergone tests on the coudé spectrograph of the 30-inch telescope at Herstmonceux. The first is an intensified Reticon system, used in a photon counting mode; the second is a directly illuminated, cooled CID.

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Harmer, C.F.W., Harmer, D.L. (1982). Experiments with Silicon Array Detectors in the RGO Coude Spectrograph. In: Humphries, C.M. (eds) Instrumentation for Astronomy with Large Optical Telescopes. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 92. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7787-7_33

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