Detectors and cryostat design for the SuMIRe Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS)

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8446, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Gunn, James E ^a   Carr, Michael ^a   Smee, Stephen A ^b   Orndorff, Joe D ^b   Barkhouser, Robert H ^b   Bennett, Charles L ^b   Greene, Jenny E ^a   Heckman, Timothy ^b   Karoji, Hiroshi ^d   LeFevre, Olivier ^c   Ling, Hung Hsu ^f   Martin, Laurent ^c   Ménard, Brice ^b,d   Murayama, Hitoshi ^d   Prieto, Eric ^c   Spergel, David ^a   Strauss, Michael A ^a   Sugai, Hajime ^d   Ueda, Akitoshi ^e   Wang, Shiang Yu ^f   Wyse, Rosemary ^b   Zakamska, Nadia ^b   more..

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^f INSTITUTE OF ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

CCD; Cryostat; H4RG; Infrared detector; Prime focus; Schmidt camera; Spectrograph

Indexed keywords

COOLING SCHEME; DETECTOR GEOMETRY; DETECTOR READOUT; H4RG; IR CAMERA; PRIME-FOCUS; RADIATION SHIELD; RED CHANNELS; SHORT-WAVELENGTH; SUBARU TELESCOPES; SUBSTRATE REMOVED; TELEDYNE; THERMAL BACKGROUND; THREE CHANNEL; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

ASTRONOMY; CAMERAS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; CONCEPTUAL DESIGN; CRYOSTATS; INFRARED DETECTORS; OPTICAL DESIGN; PIXELS; READOUT SYSTEMS; SPECTROGRAPHS;

DETECTORS;

EID: 84871965874     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.926279     Document Type: Conference Paper

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