Scientific Detectors for Astronomy The Beginning of a New Era
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ASTROPHYSICS AND SPACE SCIENCE LIBRARY VOLUME 300
EDITORIAL BOARD Chairman W.B. BURTON, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.A. ([email protected]); University of Leiden, The Netherlands ([email protected])
Executive Committee J. M. E. KUIJPERS, Faculty of Science, Nijmegen, The Netherlands E. P. J. VAN DEN HEUVEL, Astronomical Institute, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands H. VAN DER LAAN, Astronomical Institute, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
MEMBERS I. APPENZELLER, Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl, Germany J. N. BAHCALL, The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, U.S.A. F. BERTOLA, Universitá di Padova, Italy J. P. CASSINELLI, University of Wisconsin, Madison, U.S.A. C. J. CESARSKY, Centre d'Etudes de Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France O. ENGVOLD, Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo, Norway R. McCRAY, University of Colorado, JILA, Boulder, U.S.A. P. G. MURDIN, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, U.K. F. PACINI, Istituto Astronomia Arcetri, Firenze, Italy V. RADHAKRISHNAN, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India K. SATO, School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan F. H. SHU, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A. B. V. SOMOV, Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University, Russia R. A. SUNYAEV, Space Research Institute, Moscow, Russia Y. TANAKA, Institute of Space & Astronautical Science, Kanagawa, Japan S. TREMAINE, CITA, Princeton University, U.S.A. N. O. WEISS, University of Cambridge, U.K.
SCIENTIFIC DETECTORS FOR ASTRONOMY The Beginning of a New Era
Edited by PAOLA AMICO JAMES W. BELETIC and
JENNA E. BELETIC California Association for Research in Astronomy (CARA), W.M. Keck Observatory, Hawaii, U.S.A.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS FOREWORD LIST OF PARTICIPANTS THE NERD GALLERY MAPS AND MASTER PLAN
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Ian S. Mclean A Golden Era for Astronomy - The Advent of CCDs and Infrared Arrays
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SECTION I: DETECTOR MANUFACTURERS
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Ken J. Ando, Peter J. Love, Nancy A. Lum, David J. Gulbransen, Alan W. Hoffman, Elizabeth Corrales, Robert E. Mills, Mark E. Murray Overview of Astronomy Arrays at Raytheon Infrared Operations (RIO) 11 Giovanni Bonanno, Massimiliano Belluso, Antonio Calì, Alessandro. Carbone, Rosario Cosentino, Angelo Modica, Salvo Scuderi, Cristina Timpanaro, Michela Uslenghi A New Photon Counting Detector: Intensified CMOS-APS 21 Giovanni Bonanno, Rosario Cosentino, Massimiliano Belluso, Salvo Scuder
