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PLATO's signal and noise budget
Anko Börner, Carsten Paproth, Juan Cabrera +20
ESA's PLATO mission aims the detection and characterization of terrestrial planets around solar-type stars as well as the study of host star properties. The noise-to-signal ratio (…
The ESO's Extremely Large Telescope Working Groups
Paolo Padovani, Michele Cirasuolo, Remco van der Burg +82
Since 2005 ESO has been working with its community and industry to develop an extremely large optical/infrared telescope. ESO's Extremely Large Telescope, or ELT for short, is a re…
The Infra-Red Telescope (IRT) on board the THESEUS mission
Diego Götz, Stéphane Basa, Frédéric Pinsard +19
The Infra-Red Telescope (IRT) is part of the payload of the THESEUS mission, which is one of the two ESA M5 candidates within the Cosmic Vision program, planned for launch in 2032.…
A smartphone-based arbitrary scene projector for detector testing and instrument performance evaluation
Thibaut Prod'homme, Patricia Liebing, Peter Verhoeve +6
Using the high-resolution OLED screen of a smartphone to project arbitrary scenes and patterns can open a complete new dimension for testing sensors in the visible. Based on an ori…
Pyxel: the collaborative detection simulation framework
Thibaut Prod'homme, Frédéric Lemmel, Matej Arko +5
Pyxel is a novel python tool for end-to-end detection chain simulation i.e. from detector optical effects to readout electronics effects. It is an easy-to-use framework to host and…
Comparing simulations and test data of a radiation damaged charge-couple device for the Euclid mission
Jesper Skottfelt, David Hall, Jason Gow +3
The VIS instrument on board the Euclid mission is a weak-lensing experiment that depends on very precise shape measurements of distant galaxies obtained by a large CCD array. Due t…
On-orbit performance of the Gaia CCDs at L2
C. Crowley, R. Kohley, N. C. Hambly +19
The European Space Agency's Gaia satellite was launched into orbit around L2 in December 2013 with a payload containing 106 large-format scientific CCDs. The primary goal of the mi…
Radiation effects on the Gaia CCDs after 30 months at L2
Cian Crowley, Asier Abreu, Ralf Kohley +2
Since the launch of ESA's Gaia satellite in December 2013, the 106 large-format scientific CCDs onboard have been operating at L2. Due to a combination of the high-precision measur…
How well can Charge Transfer Inefficiency be corrected? A parameter sensitivity study for iterative correction
Holger Israel, Richard Massey, Thibaut Prod'homme +9
Radiation damage to space-based Charge-Coupled Device (CCD) detectors creates defects which result in an increasing Charge Transfer Inefficiency (CTI) that causes spurious image tr…
Detecting stars, galaxies, and asteroids with Gaia
J. H. J. de Bruijne, M. Allen, S. Azaz +3
(Abridged) Gaia aims to make a 3-dimensional map of 1,000 million stars in our Milky Way to unravel its kinematical, dynamical, and chemical structure and evolution. Gaia's on-boar…
An improved model of Charge Transfer Inefficiency and correction algorithm for the Hubble Space Telescope
Richard Massey, Tim Schrabback, Oliver Cordes +7
Charge-Coupled Device (CCD) detectors, widely used to obtain digital imaging, can be damaged by high energy radiation. Degraded images appear blurred, because of an effect known as…
Digging supplementary buried channels: investigating the notch architecture within the CCD pixels on ESA's Gaia satellite
G. M. Seabroke, T. Prod'homme, N. J. Murray +5
The European Space Agency (ESA) Gaia satellite has 106 CCD image sensors which will suffer from increased charge transfer inefficiency (CTI) as a result of radiation damage. To aid…
An Analytical Model of Radiation-Induced Charge Transfer Inefficiency for CCD Detectors
Alexander Short, Cian Crowley, Jos H. J. de Bruijne +1
The European Space Agency's Gaia mission is scheduled for launch in 2013. It will operate at L2 for 5 years, rotating slowly to scan the sky so that its two optical telescopes will…
The impact of CCD radiation damage on Gaia astrometry: I. Image location estimation in the presence of radiation damage
Thibaut Prod'homme, Berry Holl, Lennart Lindegren +1
The Gaia mission has been designed to perform absolute astrometric measurements with unprecedented accuracy; the end-of-mission parallax standard error is required to be 30 micro-a…
Electrode level Monte Carlo model of radiation damage effects on astronomical CCDs
T. Prod'homme, A. G. A. Brown, L. Lindegren +2
Current optical space telescopes rely upon silicon Charge Coupled Devices (CCDs) to detect and image the incoming photons. The performance of a CCD detector depends on its ability…
Modelling Gaia CCD pixels with Silvaco 3D engineering software
G. M. Seabroke, T. Prod'homme, G. Hopkinson +3
Gaia will only achieve its unprecedented measurement accuracy requirements with detailed calibration and correction for radiation damage. We present our Silvaco 3D engineering soft…