The QUEST large area CCD camera

被引：42

作者：

Baltay, C. ^{[1
]}

Rabinowitz, D. ^{[1
]}

Andrews, P. ^{[1
]}

Bauer, A. ^{[1
]}

Ellman, N. ^{[1
]}

Emmet, W. ^{[1
]}

Hudson, R. ^{[1
]}

Hurteau, T. ^{[1
]}

Jerke, J. ^{[1
]}

Lauer, R. ^{[1
]}

Silge, J. ^{[1
]}

Szymkowiak, A. ^{[1
]}

Adams, B. ^{[2
]}

Gebhard, M. ^{[2
]}

Musser, J. ^{[2
]}

Doyle, M. ^{[3
]}

Petrie, H. ^{[3
]}

Smith, R. ^{[3
]}

Thicksten, R. ^{[3
]}

Geary, J. ^{[4
]}

机构：

[1] Yale Univ, New Haven, CT 06520 USA

[2] Indiana Univ, Bloomington, IN USA

[3] CALTECH, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA

[4] Harvard Smithsonian Ctr Astrophys, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA

来源：

PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC | 2007年 / 119卷 / 861期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

D O I：

10.1086/523899

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

We have designed, constructed, and put into operation a very large area CCD camera that covers the field of view of the 1.2 m Samuel Oschin Schmidt Telescope at the Palomar Observatory. The camera consists of 112 CCDs arranged in a mosaic of four rows with 28 CCDs each. The CCDs are pixel Sarnoff 600 x 2400 thinned, back-illuminated devices with 13 mu m x 13 mu m pixels. The camera covers an area of 4.6 degrees x 3.6 degrees on the sky with an active area of 9.6 deg(2). This camera has been installed at the prime focus of the telescope and commissioned, and scientific-quality observations on the Palomar-QUEST Variability Sky Survey were started in 2003 September. The design considerations, construction features, and performance parameters of this camera are described in this paper.

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页码：1278 / 1294

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