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astro-ph.IM2025
Optimizing Charge-coupled Device Readout Enabled by the Floating-Gate Amplifier
Kenneth W. Lin, Abby Bault, Armin Karcher +4
Multiple-Amplifier Sensing (MAS) charge-coupled devices (CCDs) have recently been shown to be promising silicon detectors that meet noise sensitivity requirements for next generati…
astro-ph.IM2024
Multi-Amplifier Sensing Charge-coupled Devices for Next Generation Spectroscopy
Kenneth W. Lin, Armin Karcher, Julien Guy +6
We present characterization results and performance of a prototype Multiple-Amplifier Sensing (MAS) silicon charge-coupled device (CCD) sensor with 16 channels potentially suitable…
astro-ph.IM2025
The La Silla Schmidt Southern Survey
Adam A. Miller, Natasha S. Abrams, Greg Aldering +75
We present the La Silla Schmidt Southern Survey (LS4), a new wide-field, time-domain survey to be conducted with the 1 m ESO Schmidt telescope. The 268 megapixel LS4 camera mosaics…