Radial Velocity Spectrometer: Technical Issues

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Jan 2005

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"Proceedings of the Gaia Symposium "The Three-Dimensional Universe with Gaia" (ESA SP-576). Held at the Observatoire de Paris-Me

Physics

Optics

Gaia, Space Vehicles Instruments, Instrumentation Spectrographs, Surveys, Stars Fundamental Parameters, Galaxy Kinematics And Dynamics

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We examine the main technical issues which constrain the Gaia-RVS scientific performance, and drive its design. These are the need to maximise the number of detected photons given the Spectro telescope size and fixed exposure durations, and to minimise the internal instrument noise. The resulting design combines an elegant high efficiency optics solution, with L3CCD detector technology on high resistivity Si material, to maximise the quantum efficiency and minimise the readout noise. To cope with the data rate from the instrument, data from individual CCDs are combined on board, after remapping onto a common spatial scale and removal of blemishes and cosmic rays, then compressed with a lossless algorithm, necessary for the preservation of the low level signals in the data.

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