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The CCDs at ESO: A Systematic Testing Program

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2017

T. M. C. Abbott
T. M. C. Abbott*
Affiliation:
European Southern Observatory

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It is incumbent upon ESO to ensure that its CCDs perform according to advertised specifications (Abbott 1994). We describe a systematic, regular testing program for CCDs which is now being applied at La Silla. These tests are designed to expose failures which may not have catastrophic effects but which may compromise observations.

Type
Section II — Poster Papers
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 167: New Developments in Array Technology and Applications , 1995 , pp. 343 - 344
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1995 

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