The QUEST Large Area CCD Camera
摘要
We have designed, constructed and put into operation a very large area CCD camera that covers the field of view of the 1.2 m Samuel Oschin Schmidt Telescope at the Palomar Observatory. The camera consists of 112 CCDs arranged in a mosaic of four rows with 28 CCDs each. The CCDs are 600 x 2400 pixel Sarnoff thinned, back illuminated devices with 13 um x 13 um pixels. The camera covers an area of 4.6 deg x 3.6 deg on the sky with an active area of 9.6 square degrees. This camera has been installed at the prime focus of the telescope, commissioned, and scientific quality observations on the Palomar-QUEST Variability Sky Survey were started in September of 2003. The design considerations, construction features, and performance parameters of this camera are described in this paper.
引用
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0702590,
title = {The QUEST Large Area CCD Camera},
author = {Charlie Baltay and David Rabinowitz and Peter Andrews and Anne Bauer and Nancy Ellman and William Emmet and Rebecca Hudson and Thomas Hurteau and Jonathan Jerke and Rochelle Lauer and Julia Silge and Andrew Szymkowiak and Brice Adams and Mark Gebhard and James Musser and Michael Doyle and Harold Petrie and Roger Smith and Robert Thicksten and John Geary},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0702590},
year = {2009}
}