Extreme Faint Flux Imaging with an EMCCD

被引：49

作者：

Daigle, Olivier ^{[1
,2
,3
]}

Carignan, Claude ^{[1
,4
]}

Gach, Jean-Luc ^{[2
]}

Guillaume, Christian ^{[5
]}

Lessard, Simon ^{[3
]}

Fortin, Charles-Anthony ^{[3
]}

Blais-Ouellette, Sebastien ^{[3
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Montreal, Dept Phys, Expt Astrophys Lab, Montreal, PQ H3T 2B1, Canada

[2] Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, Lab Astrophys Marseille, Observ Astronom Marseille Provence, F-13388 Marseille, France

[3] Photon Etc, Montreal, PQ H3T 2B1, Canada

[4] Univ Ouagadougou, Observ Astrophys, Ouagadougou 03, Burkina Faso

[5] Observ Haute Provence, Observ Astronom Marseille Provence, CNRS, F-04870 St Michel IObservatoire, France

来源：

PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC | 2009年 / 121卷 / 882期

基金：

加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会;

关键词：

FABRY-PEROT OBSERVATIONS; NEARBY GALAXIES SURVEY; H-ALPHA KINEMATICS;

D O I：

10.1086/605449

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

An EMCCD camera, designed from the ground up for extreme faint flux imaging, is presented. CCCP, the CCD Controller for Counting Photons, has been integrated with a CCD97 EMCCD from e2v technologies into a scientific camera at the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique Experimentale (LAE), Universite de Montreal. This new camera achieves subelectron readout noise and very low clock-induced charge (CIC) levels, which are mandatory for extreme faint flux imaging. It has been characterized in laboratory and used on the Observatoire du Mont Megantic 1.6 m telescope. The performance of the camera is discussed and experimental data with the first scientific data are presented.

引用

页码：866 / 884

页数：19

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