Extreme faint flux imaging with an EMCCD

Details Extreme faint flux imaging with an EMCCD Extreme faint flux imaging with an EMCCD

2009-08-05

arxiv.org/abs/0908.0528v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

33 pages, 17 figures, accepted for publication in PASP

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An EMCCD camera, designed from the ground up for extreme faint flux imaging, is presented. CCCP, the CCD Controller for Counting Photons, has been integrated with a CCD97 EMCCD from e2v technologies into a scientific camera at the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique Experimentale (LAE), Universite de Montreal. This new camera achieves sub-electron read-out noise and very low Clock Induced Charge (CIC) levels, which are mandatory for extreme faint flux imaging. It has been characterized in laboratory and used on the Observatoire du Mont Megantic 1.6-m telescope. The performance of the camera is discussed and experimental data with the first scientific data are presented.

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