Optical Detectors for Astronomy: Proceedings of an Eso CCD Workshop Held in Garching, Germany, October 8-10, 1996 (Hardcover, 1998)

Foreword. Section I: Manufacturers. Products and R&D Efforts. Large Area, Buttable Image Sensors for Mosaic Applications; M.M. Blouke, et al. The State of CCD Technology at Lockheed Martin Fairchild Systems; R. Bredthauer/J.W. Beletic, P. Amico. Large-Area Back-Illuminated CCD Imager Development; B.E. Burke, et al. CCDs for Astronomy; P.J. Pool, et al. Philips Imaging Technology and the mK×nK Image Sensor; A.J.P. Theuwissen/J.W. Beletic, P. Amico. Section II: Observatory Plans. CFHT - Wide Field Imaging and `CCD-World' Host; T.M.C. Abbott. The Astronomical CCD Development Program at Copenhagen University; J. Andersen. Future Instrumentation for the Nordic Optical Telescope; C. Aspin. ESO's Plan for Optical Detectors; J.W Beletic. AAO Detectors - Present Status and Future Plans; R. Cannon, J. Barton. A Drift Scan Camera for Astrometry; M. Gai, et al. RGO (and ING) CCDs - Current Development; P.R. Jorden, A.P. Oates. CCD Development at the University of Hawaii; G.A. Luppino. High Precision Shutter for the T.N.G. CCD Camera; F. Pedichini, et al. Fabrication of Thinned CCDs at UCO/Lick Observatory; R.J. Stover, et al. Section III: CCD Devices, Controllers, Instruments and Testbenches. ESO's New CCD Testbench; P. Amico, T. Bohm. FIERA: ESO's New Generation CCD Controller; J.W. Beletic, et al. The Architecture for Two Generations of ESO VLT CCD Controllers; C. Cumani, R. Donaldson. Crymac - Cryostat Maintenance Controller; R.J. Dorn. Some Experiments with Simple Preamplifier Designs; J.C. Geary. PULPO: Temperature, Vacuum, Shutter, LN2 Level, All in One Box; N. Haddad, P. Sinclaire. Very-high Frame-rate Burst-image Sensor;W.F. Kosonocky, et al. High Speed, Wide Dynamic Range CCD Systems for Applications in Astronomy; C.D. Mackay. Recent Results from the EEV CCD42; A.P. Oates, P.R. Jorden. The AIP Photometric Testbench; M.M. Roth. High-Speed Data Acquisition System Messia for Subaru; M. Sekuguchi, et al. Readout Speed Optimization for Conventional CCDs Employing Dual Slope Integration for Double Correlated Sampling; R.M. Smith. Section IV: Mosaic Projects, Special Techniques. An Interferometric Method for Measurement of the Detector MTF; M.I. Andersen, A.N. Sørensen. The Two EROS 4k x 8k CCD Mosaic Cameras; F. Bauer, J. de Kat. Wide Field Imaging at CFHT: the MEGACAM Project; O. Boulade. Fringing &endash; A User's Perspective; R. Cannon. DEIMOS Dewar System; D. Cowley. High Precision Photometry from Space with COROT: Effect of Spatial Image Jitter on the Photometric Performances of CCDs; R. Gruneisen. Charge Transfer Efficiency in Proton Damaged CCDs; T. Hardy, et al. Low Smear Drift Scanning CCDs; D. Ives, A. Bennett. Parallel Phase Test; R. Kohley, et al. Converting a Schmidt Telescope to CCDs: the OCA/DLR Asteroid Survey; A. Maury, et al. On the Optimization of CCD Readout Noise; R.E. Schmidt. How Linear Are Typical CCDs? R.M. Smith. Application of the Arcon CCD Controller to the NOAO 8k Mosaic Imager; R.M. Smith. Cleaning Contaminated CCDs; A.N. Sørensen. CCD Flatness Measuring System at UCO/Lick Observatory; R.J. Stover, et al. The Orthogonal Transfer CCE; J. Tonry, B.E. Burke. A Technique for the Determination of Co-planarity in Mosaic CCD Cameras; S. Tulloch, D. King. CCD Camera Calibration and Testing Using Compact LED Light Sources; S. Tull