Optical Detector Team - Documentation and Publication

NGC Documentation    (internal access only)

Manuals

• PULPO 2 Manual (Dec/07/2004)
  (as pdf-file, 850 kB)
• FIERA Pixel Generator Manual (Apr/16/2004)
• FIERA user manual, issue 3.0 (Mar/31/2004)
  (as   pdf-file, 800 kB)
• FIERA user manual, issue 1.3 (Feb/17/2001)
  (as   pdf-file, 340 kB)
• FIERA maintenace manual, issue 1.2 (Apr/03/2001)
  (as pdf-file, 510 kB)
• PULPO user manual, rev. 1.0
• Waveform Editor Software (WES) user manual, rev. 1.0
• CCD Surface Measuring Device - manual
• Testbench software user manual, issue 1.0 (Jun/07/2002)
  (as pdf-file, 14.6 MB, internal access only)
• How to use the testbench, user manual (Nov/12/2003)
  (as pdf-file, 4.8 MB, internal access only)

Diploma thesis

• Comparison of coconut charcoal Chemviron SCII and zeolite type Linde 13X as adsorption materials in a CCD cryostat (2003)
  Paper   by J. Hose   (in German language, as pdf-file, 3.6 MB)
  Presentation   by J. Hose   (as ppt-file, 9.1 MB, internal access only)
• Flatness measurements of CCDs and mosaics of CCDs (Sept/20/1999)
  Paper   by S. Stroebele   (as pdf-file, 950 kB, internal access only)

Test reports

• CCD test reports (1990 - 1998)
• EEV44-82 CCDs - Performance overview (Oct/10/1999)
• CCDs of the Wide Field Imager (WFI) - Test report and image gallery
• GIRAFFE CCD Detector Systems - detector design and performance report, version 1.02 (Apr/25/2002)
  (as pdf-file, 5.8 MB, internal access only)
• NAOS WFS-CCD Detector System - performance and test report, issue 1.4 (Nov/08/2001)
  (as pdf-file, 1.8 MB)
• HARPS detector - final design, issue 1.0 (Mar/07/2001)
  (as pdf-file, 10.8 MB, internal access only)

Other reports

• The potential of Cryotiger Cryostats (upgrades) for ESO´s observatories (June/25/2003)
  (as pdf-file, 720 kB)
• Cryotiger report - suitability discussion (Jan/13/2003)
  (as pdf-file, 660 kB)
• Outgassing in the vacuum of materials used in CCD cryostats and detector heads
• CCD surface measuring device
• HARPS - ICD between detector unit and HARPS spectrograph, issue 1.0 (Feb/28/2001)
  (as pdf-file, 3.7 MB, internal access only)
• Decontamination report of FORS 1 CCD, issue 1.0 (Nov/20/1999)
  (as pdf-file, 1.8 MB)

Safety Reports

• Electromagnetic compatibility and power quality specification, issue 2.0 (Mar/11/1992)
  (as pdf-file, 2.2 MB, internal access only)

2006

• The OmegaCAM 16k x 16k CCD Detector System for the ESO VLT Survey Telescope (VST)
  Paper   by O. Iwert et. al.   (as pdf-file, 3.6 MB)

• Custom CCD for adaptive optics applications
  Paper   by M. Downing et. al.   (as pdf-file, 470 kB)

• CCD riddle: a) signal vs time: linear; b) signal vs variance: non-linear
  Paper   by M. Downing et. al.   (as pdf-file, 360 kB)

2005

• The OmegaCAM 16k x 16k CCD Detector System for the ESO VLT Survey Telescope (VST)
  Paper   by O. Iwert et. al.   (as pdf-file, 290 kB)

• A Dedicated L3Vision CCD for Adaptive Optics Applications
  Paper   by M. Downing et. al.   (as pdf-file, 250 kB)

• Optical Detector Systems at the European Southern Observatory
  Paper   by D. Baade et. al.   (as pdf-file, 150 kB)

• We must be MAD - Pushing FIERA to its limits
  Poster   by R. Reiss et. al.   (as pdf-file, 810 kB)
  Paper   by R. Reiss et. al.   (as pdf-file, 1.7 MB)

• Slicing the Universe - CCDs for MUSE
  Poster   by R. Reiss et. al.   (as pdf-file, 1.4 MB)
  Paper   by R. Reiss et. al.   (as pdf-file, 980 kB)

• Software for the ESO New General Detector Controller
  Poster   by C. Cumani et. al.   (as pdf-file, 1.1 MB)
  Paper   by C. Cumani et. al.   (as pdf-file, 130 kB)

• Plasma Cleaning - a new method to get ultra-clean cryostats
  Paper   by S. Deiries et. al.   (as pdf-file, 1.5 MB)
  Poster   by S. Deiries et. al.   (as pdf-file, 1.3 MB)

• Fast Conversion Factor (gain) measurement of a CCD using images with vertical gradient
  Paper   by F. Christen et. al.   (as pdf-file, 520 kB)

• CCD charge transfer efficiency (CTE) derived from signal variance in flat field images
  Paper   by F. Christen et. al.   (as pdf-file, 670 kB)

• NGC Front-end for AO applications and CCDs
  Poster   by J. Reyes et. al.   (as pdf-file, 2.3 MB)
  Paper   by J. Reyes et. al.   (as pdf-file, 150 kB)

• Keep Control: PULPO 2
  Poster   by C. Geimer et. al.   (as pdf-file, 1.6 MB)
  Paper   by C. Geimer et. al.   (as pdf-file, 910 kB)

2004

• Release notes of FIERA software
  Release notes   by C. Cumani

• Ultra-clean CCD Cryostats
  Paper   by S. Deiries et al.   (as pdf-file, 1.3 MB)
  in "Scientific Detectors for Astronomy", eds. Amico, P., Beletic, J.W., Beletic, J.E., Kluwer Academic Publishers (2004), p. 305

• CCD wavefront sensing system for the ESO Multi-conjugate Adaptive Optics Demonstrator (MAD)
  Paper by C. Cavadore et al.
  in "Scientific Detectors for Astronomy", eds. Amico, P., Beletic, J.W., Beletic, J.E., Kluwer Academic Publishers (2004), p. 283

• Upgrade of ESO's FIERA CCD Controller and PULPO Subsystem
  Paper by J. Reyes et. al.
  in "Scientific Detectors for Astronomy", eds. Amico, P., Beletic, J.W., Beletic, J.E., Kluwer Academic Publishers (2004), p. 449

• ESO's Optical Detector Systems in the VLT Operations Era
  Paper   by D. Baade   (as pdf-file, 29 kB)
  in "Scientific Detectors for Astronomy", eds. Amico, P., Beletic, J.W., Beletic, J.E., Kluwer Academic Publishers (2004), p. 197

• Characterizing the CCDs of the OmegaCam wide-angle camera
  Paper by F. Christen et al.
  in "Scientific Detectors for Astronomy", eds. Amico, P., Beletic, J.W., Beletic, J.E., Kluwer Academic Publishers (2004), p. 485

• FIERA Pixel Generator
  Paper   by J.Reyes   (as pdf-file, 357 kB)

2003

• Release notes of FIERA software
  Release notes   by C. Cumani