Inflight performance of the Advanced Camera for Surveys

Clampin, Mark; Sirianni, M.; Hartig, G.; Ford, H. C.; Illingworth, G. D.; Burmester, William; Martel, A. R.; Riess, Adam G.; Schrein, Ronald J.; Sullivan, Pamela C.

doi:10.1117/12.512509

Cited by 6 publications

(2 citation statements)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Sirianni et al (2003) 6 present the on-orbit characterization of the ACS CCD detectors and the comparison of the inflight result with pre-launch calibration data. Clampin et al (2004) 7 present on overview of the ACS CCD detectors based on the first year of flight science operations. In this paper we will focus on the performance aspects of the ACS CCD detectors which show a temporal variation due to the on-going radiation damage: read noise, dark current, hot pixel population and Charge Transfer Efficiency (CTE).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Performance of the Advanced Camera for Surveys CCDs after two years on orbit

et al. 2004

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), installed in the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) in March 2002, comprises three cameras: the Wide Field Camera (WFC), designed for deep near-IR survey imaging programs; the High Resolution Camera (HRC), a high angular resolution imager which fully samples the HST full spread function (PSF) in the visible; and the Solar Blind Camera (SBC), a far-UV imager. The WFC and HRC employ CCD detectors. Their performances are affected by the on-going damage due to the space radiation environment where they operate. We present an overview of the performance of the ACS CCD detectors, based on the first two years of flight science operations. We analyze the evolution with time of the basic detector performance that are subjected to degradation due to the on-going radiation damage. Comparison is made with ground testing prediction and with the amount of performance degradation seen in other CCD detectors on board of HST.

show abstract

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Performance of the Advanced Camera for Surveys CCDs after two years on orbit

et al. 2004

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Radiation-induced dark current effects at low operating temperatures are also of interest and it has been shown that annealing of hot pixels can occur in CCDs below room temperature. [2], [3 ], [ 4]. This implies that room temperature irradiations do not give a good estimate of on-orbit effects for cooled imagers.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%