Characterization of the scientific grade Hawaii detector for LIRIS

Jose Acosta-Pulido; Carlos Dominguez-Tagle; Arturo Manchado

doi:10.1117/12.460314

7 March 2003 Characterization of the scientific grade Hawaii detector for LIRIS

Jose Acosta-Pulido, Carlos Dominguez-Tagle, Arturo Manchado

Proceedings Volume 4841, Instrument Design and Performance for Optical/Infrared Ground-based Telescopes; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.460314
Event: Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, 2002, Waikoloa, Hawai'i, United States

Abstract

The instrument LIRIS is a near IR spectrograph to be installed at the WHT telescope. Currently it is being assembled at the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias. The instrument will have a Hawaii 1Kx1K array as the detector. Here we report the laboratory characterization of the scientific grade unit. We give the relevant parameters such as linearity range, gain and readout noise. These results confirm that the science grade detector will fulfil the astronomical requirements for making LIRIS a front line IR instrument. We also discuss some peculiar effects which need to be taken into account in order to guarantee a correct astronomical performance. Among these effects we consider: variation of the dark signal with integration time, cross-talk, and persistance. We also discuss the variation of the bias level with detector temperature and the need to establish an extremely stable control of the temperature.

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Jose Acosta-Pulido, Carlos Dominguez-Tagle, and Arturo Manchado "Characterization of the scientific grade Hawaii detector for LIRIS", Proc. SPIE 4841, Instrument Design and Performance for Optical/Infrared Ground-based Telescopes, (7 March 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.460314

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