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. |