Open AccessCHARACTERIZATION OF MODERN CCD AND CMOS SENSORS FOR SKY SURVEYS
Author(s) -
С. Карпов,
A. Christov,
A. Bajat,
R. Cunniffe,
M. Prouza
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
revista mexicana de astronomía y astrofísica. serie de conferencias
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1405-2059
DOI - 10.22201/ia.14052059p.2021.53.38
Subject(s) - large format , sky , frame rate , cmos , computer science , software , noise (video) , chip , remote sensing , computer hardware , engineering , electronic engineering , physics , telecommunications , optics , astronomy , artificial intelligence , operating system , geography , image (mathematics)
Here we review the efforts we take in a newly established laboratory inside Institute of Physics in Prague in order to characterize modern large-format CCD and CMOS sensors for sky survey applications. While the laboratory is primarily established in order to participate in low-level CCD sensor characterization for LSST project, we also managed to perform a thorough laboratory testing of recently released Andor Marana sCMOS (which is especially interesting for wide-field sky monitoring applications due to its large format, backilluminated design, high achievable frame rate and low read-out noise), as well as detailed measurements of response non-linearity of Moravian Instruments G4-16000 CCD cameras (based on large-format Kodak KAF-16803 chip) used in several robotic telescopes. We briey review the results acquired on these cameras, as well as hardware and software we developed for the laboratory.