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Scientific CMOS image sensors are a modern alternative for a typical CCD detectors, as they offer both low read-out noise, large sensitive area, and high frame rates. All these makes them promising devices for a modern wide-field sky…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-24 S. Karpov , A. Bajat , A. Christov , M. Prouza

Scientific CMOS image sensors are a modern alternative for a typical CCD detectors, as they offer both low read-out noise, large sensitive area, and high frame rates. All these makes them promising devices for a modern wide-field sky…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-06 Sergey Karpov , Armelle Bajat , Asen Christov , Michael Prouza , Grigory Beskin

In recent years, the performance of Scientifc Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (sCMOS) sensors has been improved signifcantly. Compared with CCD sensors, sCMOS sensors have various advantages, making them potentially better devices…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-05 Qinyu Wu , Zhenqing Jia , Wenxin Wang , Zhixing Ling , Chen Zhang , Shuangnan Zhang , Weimin Yuan

CMOS detectors offer many advantages over CCDs for optical and UV astronomical applications, especially in space where high radiation tolerance is required. However, astronomical instruments are most often designed for low light-level…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-31 Timothee Greffe , Roger Smith , Myles Sherman , Fiona Harrison , Hannah Earnshaw , Brian Grefenstette , John Hennessy , Shouleh Nikzad

Due to the increasing dimension, complexity and cost of the future astronomical surveys, new technologies enabling more compact and simpler systems are required. The development of curved detectors allows to enhance the performances of the…

Aims. We describe a pilot study to explore a new generation of fast and low noise CMOS image sensors for time domain astronomy, using two remote telescopes with a baseline of 1800 km. Methods. Direct imaging with novel qCMOS image sensor…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-17 Martin M. Roth , Paško Roje , Stella Vješnica , Stefan Cikota , Alex J. Brown , Mike Kretlow , Marco Azzaro , Santiago Reinhart , Jesús Aceituno , Thomas Kupfer

The broad energy response, low electronic read noise, and good energy resolution have made X-ray Charge-Coupled Devices (CCDs) an obvious choice for developing soft X-ray astronomical instruments over the last half century. They also come…

In recent years, scientific Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (sCMOS) devices have been increasingly applied in X-ray detection, thanks to their attributes such as high frame rate, low dark current, high radiation tolerance and low…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-12-14 Yu Hsiao , Zhixing Ling , Chen Zhang , Wenxin Wang , Quan Zhou , Xinyang Wang , Shuang-Nan Zhang , Weimin Yuan

In recent years, there has been a gradual increase in the performance of Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) cameras. These cameras have gained popularity as a viable alternative to charge-coupled device (CCD) cameras in a wide…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-18 Peng Jia , Chao Lv , Yushan Li , Yongyang Sun , Shu Niu , Zhuoxiao Wang

The depleted CMOS sensors are emerging as one of the main candidate technologies for future tracking detectors in high luminosity colliders. Its capability of integrating the sensing diode into the CMOS wafer hosting the front-end…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-10-17 Ricardo Marco Hernandez

In recent years, detectors with sub-electron readout noise have been used very effectively in astronomical adaptive optics systems. Here, we compare readout noise models for the two key faint flux level detector technologies that are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-29 Alastair Basden

We characterize the response of a novel 250 $\mu$m thick, fully-depleted Skipper Charged-Coupled Device (CCD) to visible/near-infrared light with a focus on potential applications for astronomical observations. We achieve stable,…

Scientific complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) detectors have developed quickly in recent years thanks to their low cost and high availability. They also have some advantages over charge-coupled devices (CCDs), such as high frame…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-17 Miguel R. Alarcon , Javier Licandro , Miquel Serra-Ricart , Enrique Joven , Vicens Gaitan , Rebeca de Sousa

Recent progress with CMOS detector development has opened new parameter space for high cadence time resolved imaging of transients and fast proper motion solar system objects. Using computer simulations for a ground-based 1.23 m telescope,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-12 Martin M. Roth

Scientific CMOS (sCMOS) image sensors are a modern alternative to typical CCD detectors and are rapidly gaining popularity in observational astronomy due to their large sizes, low read-out noise, high frame rates, and cheap manufacturing.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-06 Arda Özdoğru , Sergey Karpov , Asen Christov , Stanislav Vítek

Multiple-Amplifier Sensing (MAS) charge-coupled devices (CCDs) have recently been shown to be promising silicon detectors that meet noise sensitivity requirements for next generation Stage-5 spectroscopic surveys and potentially, future…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-30 Kenneth W. Lin , Abby Bault , Armin Karcher , Julien Guy , Stephen E. Holland , William F. Kolbe , Peter E. Nugent

X-ray Charge Coupled Devices (CCDs) have been the workhorse for soft X-ray astronomical instruments for the past quarter century. They provide broad energy response, extremely low electronic read noise, and good energy resolution in soft…

Modern scientific CMOS cameras offer very fast readout speeds and low read noise. In this study, we evaluate the performance of the Andor Marana CMOS camera through on-sky testing carried out at the NGTS facility at the ESO Paranal…

Future x-ray observatories will require imaging detectors with fast readout speeds that simultaneously achieve or exceed the other high performance parameters of x-ray charge-coupled devices (CCDs) used in many missions over the past three…

Charge Coupled Devices (CCDs) have been successfully used in several low energy X-ray astronomical satellite over the past two decades. Their high energy resolution and high spatial resolution make them an perfect tool for low energy…

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