Development of the CCDs for ESA's GAIA cornerstone mission

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5167, Issue , 2004, Pages 38-49

  Holland, Andrew D ^a   Perryman, Michael ^d   Vetel, Cyril ^c   Steward, Roy ^b   Hutchinson, Ian B ^a   Ambrosi, Richard M ^a   Smith, David R ^a   Bowring, Steve ^b   Burt, David ^b   Eaton, Tim ^b   Morris, David ^b   Pool, Peter ^b   Davancens, Robert ^c   Laborie, Anouk ^c   Pouny, Pierre ^c   Safa, Frédéric ^c   Zayer, Igor ^d   Short, Alex ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b E2V TECHNOLOGIES   (United Kingdom)

^c AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE   (Germany)

^d EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Astrometry; CCDs; Focal plane; GAIA; L2; Photometry

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; LAUNCHING; PHOTOMETRY; RADIATION HARDENING; RADIATION SHIELDING; SPACE RESEARCH; SPACE TELESCOPES;

ASTROMETRY; FOCAL PLANE; GAIA;

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES;

EID: 11144354766     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.515401     Document Type: Conference Paper

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