Wide-Field Camera for Gravitational Microlensing Survey: MOA-cam2

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000exa....10..519y&link_type=abstract

Experimental Astronomy, v. 10, Issue 4, p. 519-535 (2000).

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Dark Matter, Macho, Wide-Field Camera

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We have constructed a large, mosaic CCD camera called MOA-cam2 which has 4096 × 6144-pixels to search for gravitational microlensing events. MOA-cam2 has three 4096 × 2048-pixel SITe CCD chips, which have a very high quantum efficiency (nearly 80% in the wave region 500 to 800 nm), and three buttable sides. We have placed the three chips side by side with 100 μm dead space. MOA-cam2 has been installed on the 61 cm Boller and Chivens telescope of the MOA collaboration at the Mt. John University Observatory (MJUO) in New Zealand since July 1998. The field coverage is 0.92° × 1.38° per exposure. The technical details of MOA-cam2 and the first images obtained with the Boller and Chivens telescope are presented. MOA-cam2 introduces a second phase of research on gravitational microlensing by the MOA collaboration.

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