System architecture of the dark energy survey camera readout electronics

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7735, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Shaw, Theresa ^a   Ballester, Otger ^b   Cardiel Sas, Laia ^b   Castilla, Javier ^c   Chappa, Steve ^a   De Vicente, Juan ^c   Holm, Scott ^a   Huffman, David ^a   Kozlovsky, Mark ^a   Martínez, Gustavo ^c   Moore, Todd ^d   Olsen, Jamieson ^a   Simaitis, Vaidotas ^d   Stuermer, Walter ^a  

^a FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c CIEMAT   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Blanco; CCD; CTIO; Dark Energy; DECam; electronics; readout

Indexed keywords

BLANCO; CCD; CTIO; DARK ENERGY; DECAM; ELECTRONICS; READOUT;

CAMERAS; INSTRUMENTS; SURVEYS;

ASTROPHYSICS;

EID: 78149262576     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.857482     Document Type: Conference Paper

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