Managing radiation degradation of CCDs on the Chandra X-ray Observatory

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4851, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 77-88

  O'Dell, Stephen L ^a   Blackwell, William C ^b   Cameron, Robert A ^c   Minow, Joseph I ^b   Morris, David C ^c,d   Spitzbart, Bradley J ^c   Swartz, Douglas A ^e   Virani, Shanil N ^c   Wolk, Scott J ^c  

^a NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b Jacobs Sverdrup   (United States)

^c HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^d Pennsylvania State Uniivrsity   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; IMAGING SYSTEMS; RADIATION DAMAGE; X RAYS;

X-RAY OBSERVATORIES;

OBSERVATORIES;

EID: 0038295880     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.461493     Document Type: Conference Paper

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