Scientific Detectors for Astronomy: The Beginning of a New Era (Hardcover, 2004)

'A Golden Era for Astronomy: The Advent of CCDS and Infrared Arrays.- A Golden Era for Astronomy: The Advent of CCDS and Infrared Arrays.- Detector Manufacturers.- Overview of Astronomy Arrays at Raytheon Infrared Operations (RIO).- A New Photon Counting Detector: Intensified CMOS-APS.- Preliminary Test Measurements of the SPAD Array.- Preliminary Characterization of Two High-Speed, Back-Illuminated CCD Image Sensors.- Broadband (200-1000 NM) Back-Illuminated CCD Imagers.- Orion: A 1-5 Micron Focal Plane for the 21st Century.- Performance of 5 Micron, Molecular Beam Epitaxy HgCdTe Sensor Chip Assemblies (SCAs) for the NGST Mission and Ground-Based Astronomy.- Cosmic Rays and Other Nonsense in Astronomical CCD Imagers.- An Overview of CCD Development at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.- Scientific CMOS Pixels.- Secrets of E2V Technologies CCDs.- Progress in Ultra-Low Noise Hybrid and Monolithic FPAs for Visible and Infrared.- A Marconi CCD42-40 with Anti-Blooming.- Very Large Format Back Illuminated CCDS.- Compound Semiconductor Detectors.- Optical Photon-Counting STJ Activities at ESA.- Silicon-on-Insulator-Based Single-Chip Image Sensors.- Large Format and Scientific Detectors at Fairchild Imaging.- HgCdTe Detectors for the Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Camera 3 IR Channel.- CMOS Active Pixel Sensor Developments at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.- Observatory Status/Plans.- Eso's Optical Detector Sytems in the VLT Operations Era.- The Detector Systems of the Keck Observatory: UV to 25 Microns.- IR Detector Developments at Eso.- Controller Developments.- Detector Work at the UKATC.- CCD Camera Systems for the GTC.- Detectors at CTIO: Present Status and Future Plans.- Strange Happenings in the Dungeons.- NOAO Observatory Plans.- MONSOON Image Acquisition System.- Instrumentation.- Improved CCD Detectors for High Speed, Charge Exchange Spectroscopy Studies on the DIII-D Tokamak.- A CCD Wavefront Sensing System for the ESO Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics Demonstrator (MAD).- CFHT's Skyprobe: True Atmospheric Attenuation Measurement in the Telescope Field.- CFHT's Flyeyes: Assessing On-sky Performance of the New MIT/LL CCID-35 CCD Curvature Wavefront Sensor.- Ultra-Clean CCD Cryostats.- The Impact of Astronomy Technologies on Chemical Analysis.- A CCD-based Curvature Wavefront Sensor for Adaptive Optics in Astronomy.- Performance and Results of the NAOS Visible Wavefront Sensor.- Fabry Perot Observations Using a New GaAs Photon Counting System.- Near IR Fringe Tracking for VLTI: the FINITO Detection System.- OSIRIS Detectors.- The Optimized Cryostat for the LBC Camera.- The Omegacam Shutter.- Ultra-Deep Optical Spectroscopy with PMAS.- The Tololo all Sky Camera.- The Orthogonal Parallel Imaging Transfer Camera.- Giga-Pixels and Sky Surveys.- The Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Camera 3 Instrument Charge-Coupled Device Detectors.- Camera and Detector Development in the Space Science and Technology Department of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.- Compact CCD Camera.- Electronics.- The Design and Testing of a Cryogenic Pre-amplifier for the Rockwell HAWAII and HAWAII-II Detector Arrays.- The New Generation CCD Controller: First Results.- ISPI Software.- Compact CCD Guider Camera for Magelian.- Readout Techniques for Drift and Low Frequency Noise Rejection in Infrared Arrays.- AzCam: A Windows-Based CCD/CMOS Client/Server Data Acquisition System.- Upgrade of Eso's Fiera CCD Controller and Pulpo Subsystem.- An Optimized Data Acquisition System Without Reset Anomaly for the Hawaii and Hawaii-2 Arrays.- GTC Acquisition Cameras and Wavefront Sensors.- A New CCD Controller at UCO/Lich Observatory.- The use of ASIC Thecnology in the Development of Compact, Low-Power CCD Cameras.- Detector Testing and Characterization.- Characterization of the Si: As Blocked Impurity Band (BIB) Detector in Keck's Long Wavelength Spectrometer (