Introduction

This document describes a set of test data for the CFHT CCD Loral 3 , installed in/on Waimea Lab . The data were collected on 13 June 1995 by S. Milner and reduced by Tim Abbott. The majority of this report is a phenomenological description of the characteristics of the test data -- the data were collected in the Waimea lab and will in general reflect the performance of the CCD at the telescope but possibly not in detail.

Summary of results:

• Readout noise = 5.3 electrons/pixel
• Conversion factor = 2.31 Electrons/ADU
• Amplitude of nonlinearities =
• Shutter error = Not applicable
• Read & display time = Not measured
• CTE = not measured
• Bias level = 982.0 ADU.

The Circumstances of the Test:

• Light source: LED triggered from shutter driver.
• Location: Waimea CCD lab.
• Equipment: new preamp (AC coupled), Gen III Version 2 controller.
• The data were collected after a 2 week effort (by Dan McKenna) to optimise the performance of Loral 3. No comprehensive test set was collected before this effort.