Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Dec 2007
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007aas...211.8303t&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #211, #83.03; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 39, p.874
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network, Inc. (LCOGT) operates a privately funded global network of 0.4 - 2.0 m telescopes with the primary mission of precision photometry. Presently LCOGT operates the two 2 m Faulkes telescopes (Hawaii, US and Siding Spring, AU) with designs in progress for a network of 20 1 m telescopes and 30 0.4 m telescopes. When complete, the network will allow continuous simultaneous multiband photometry from both the northern and southern hemispheres.
The LCOGT imaging lab is responsible for the design, construction, assembly, and characterization of all network cameras. Since it started in April of 2007, the lab has already characterized and commissioned two 2k2 deep depletion cameras with 18 live filters in each. We are also nearing deployment of two 4k2 cameras also with 18 filters each. Ultimately the 1 m network, deployed in groups of 3 - 4 telescopes at each site, will have at least a 4k2 camera with full filter complement on each telescope.
The lab's planned facilities include a Class 100 clean room, test and measurement setups for fully characterizing filter transmission from 300- 1100 nm, and detector quantum efficiency, charge transfer efficiency, residual image, gain, and read noise.
Haldeman B.
Hawkins Edward
Jahng David
Lobdill Rich
Tufts Joseph
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