Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1998-09-08
Astron.J.116:3040,1998
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
67 pages (inc 6 tables), plain TeX, 41 figures (gif), to appear in the Astronomical Journal, December 1998. The figures can be
Scientific paper
10.1086/300645
We have constructed a large format mosaic CCD camera for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The camera consists of two arrays, a photometric array which uses 30 2048 x 2048 SITe/Tektronix CCDs (24 micron pixels) with an effective imaging area of 720 square cm, and an astrometric array which uses 24 400 x 2048 CCDs with the same pixel size, which will allow us to tie bright astrometric standard stars to the objects imaged in the photometric camera. The instrument will be used to carry out photometry essentially simultaneously in five color bands spanning the range accessible to silicon detectors on the ground in the time-delay- and-integrate (TDI) scanning mode. The photometric detectors are arrayed in the focal plane in six columns of five chips each such that two scans cover a filled stripe 2.5 degrees wide. This paper presents engineering and technical details of the camera.
Carr Michael
Gunn James
Rockosi Constance
Sekiguchi Maki
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