Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Sep 2004
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Optical and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy. Edited by James D. Garnett and James W. Beletic. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 5
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Scientific paper
Omega2000 is the first near infrared (NIR) wide field camera installed on the 3.5 m telescope at Calar Alto which operates with a 2kx2k HAWAII-2 FPA. Each component of the camera system must suit high requirements to exploit the facilities provided by the imaging sensor. To meet these requirements was a great challenge in design and realization of the optics, the mechanical part and the electronics. The cryogenic optical system with a warm mirror baffle can produce excellent optical quality and high sensitivity over the whole 15.4x15.4 arcmin field of view. The readout electronics together with the camera control software provide multi functional data acquisition and the camera control software can perform the readout and on-line data reduction simultaneously at a high data rate. Different operational and readout modes of the data acquisition of the detector both for engineering and scientific purpose were implemented, tested and optimized and the characteristics of three HAWAII-2 detectors were also determined in their hardware and software environment. Initial astronomical observations were carried out successfully in autumn 2003.
Baumeister Harald
Bizenberger Peter
Kovács Zoltán
Mall Ulrich
Röser Hermann-Josef
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