Digging supplementary buried channels: Investigating the notch architecture within the CCD pixels on ESA's Gaia satellite

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 430, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 3155-3170

  Seabroke, G M ^a,b   Prod'homme, T ^c,d   Murray, N J ^b   Crowley, C ^e   Hopkinson, G ^f   Brown, A G A ^d   Kohley, R ^e   Holland, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Spain)

^f SURREY SATELLITE TECHNOLOGY LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Astrometry; Galaxies: General; Instrumentation: Detectors; Methods: Laboratory; Methods: Numerical; Space vehicles: Instruments

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876783940     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stt121     Document Type: Article

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