Full-sky Astrometric Mapping Explorer (FAME) CCD centroiding experiment

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FAME is a MIDEX astrometry mission designed to map the position of 40,000,000 stars to an accuracy of 50 micro-arc seconds. Optimized between mission requirements, size, weight, and cost, the FAME instrument consists of a 0.6 X 0.5 m2 aperture whose point spread function central peak is linearly sampled by two pixels. To achieve its astrometric mapping mission requirements, this instrument must achieve a single look centroiding accuracy on a visual magnitude 9.0 (or brighter) star of < 0.003 pixels while operating the focal plane in a time domain integration, TDI, mode. As this performance requirement represents a significant improvement over the current state of the art of 0.02 to 0.01 pixel resolution, a risk reduction experiment was conducted to determine our centroiding ability using a flight traceable CCD operated in TDI mode.

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