Test data: June 1995
Current status: no longer offered. (Standard dewar, usable anywhere appropriate if really needed.)
| Description | Three phase thick Loral CCD |
| Architecture | front side illuminated CCD |
| Manufacturer | Loral |
| Size: | 2048x2048 by 15 micron pixels |
| Nominal gain | 2.3 e-/ADU |
| Read noise | 5.3 e-/pixel |
| Nominal bias | 1000 ADU |
| Full well | >80,000 e- |
| Transfer efficiency | excellent |
| Nominal operating temp. | -135C |
| Dark current | 0.25 e-/min/pixel (-116C) |
| Nonlinearity | less than 0.5% |
| Residual image | Significant if over-saturated, use caution selecting source fields |
| Cosmetics | a few bad columns and a number of low-level traps. |
| Flat field | few percent variation |
| Dewar | Photometrics. |
| Notes | blue sensitive coating. (Lick obs.) |
| Used with new GEN III V2 controllers | |
| prototype CFHT CCD preamp | |
| Planned upgrade to Gen III V3. |