Characterization of a Commercial, Front-Illuminated Interline Transfer CCD Camera for use as a Guide Camera on a Balloon-Borne Telescope-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Characterization of a Commercial, Front-Illuminated Interline Transfer CCD Camera for use as a Guide Camera on a Balloon-Borne Telescope

Published:2014-11 Issue:02 Volume:03 Page:1440003
ISSN:2251-1717
Container-title:Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation
language:en
Short-container-title:J. Astron. Instrum.

Author:

Clark Paul¹,Massey Richard¹²,Chang Herrick L.³,Galloway Mathew⁴,Israel Holger²,Jones Laura L.³,Li Lun⁴,Mandic Milan³,Morris Tim¹,Netterfield C. Barth⁴,Peacock John⁵,Sharples Ray¹,Susca Sara³

Affiliation:

1. Centre for Advanced Instrumentation, University of Durham, Joseph Swan Road, Netpark, Sedgefield TS21 3FB, United Kingdom

2. Institute for Computational Cosmology, University of Durham, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom

3. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109, United States

4. University of Toronto, Department of Physics, 60 St. George St., Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada

5. Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Royal Observatory, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh EH9 3HJ, United Kingdom

Abstract

We report results obtained during the characterization of a commercial front-illuminated progressive scan interline transfer CCD camera. We demonstrate that the unmodified camera operates successfully in temperature and pressure conditions (-40°C, 4 mBar) representative of a high altitude balloon mission. We further demonstrate that the centroid of a well-sampled star can be determined to better than 2% of a pixel, even though the CCD is equipped with a microlens array. This device has been selected for use in a closed-loop star-guiding and tip-tilt correction system in the BIT-STABLE balloon mission.

Publisher

World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

Subject

Astronomy and Astrophysics,Instrumentation

Link

https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/pdf/10.1142/S2251171714400030

Reference10 articles.

1. A Method for Weak Lensing Observations

2. Pixel-based correction for Charge Transfer Inefficiency in theHubble Space TelescopeAdvanced Camera for Surveys

3. The Balloon‐borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope: BLAST

4. Weak Lensing Measurements: A Revisited Method and Application toHubble Space TelescopeImages

Cited by 1 articles. 订阅此论文施引文献订阅此论文施引文献，注册后可以免费订阅5篇论文的施引文献，订阅后可以查看论文全部施引文献

1. Thermal, Structural, and Optical Analysis of a Balloon-Based Imaging System;Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific;2017-01-18