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For general information about Infrared
Arrays, please read chapter
2 of
Martin Beckett's thesis or here.
Camera
ARNICA
FAST
WHIRCAM
CIRSI
INGRID
LIRIS
Pixels
256×256
58×62
256×256
4*(1024×1024)
1024×1024
1024×1024
Pixel size
40µ (0.35 arcsec)
(0.5 arcsec)
30µ (0.24 arcsec)
18.5µ
18.5µ(0.25 arcsec)
18.5µ(0.25 arcsec)
Array
HgCdTe NICMOS-3
InSb
SBRC InSb
Rockwell HgCdTe HAWAII
Rockwell HgCdTe HAWAII
Rockwell HgCdTe HAWAII
Field of View
0.50' (WHT
f/11)
1.02'×1.02' (WHT f/11)
20.9'×20.9' (WHT f/2.8)
29.64'×29.64' (INT f/3.3)
4.27'×4.27'(WHT f/11)
4.27'×4.27'(WHT f/11)
Readout noise
40-60e-
<280e-
40-55e-
37-65e-
3-10e-
Dark
current
<1e-
50e-/second
10e-/s
~ 0.065 e-/s
Spectral range
0.9 - 2.5µ
1.4-2.4µ
0.8-2.3µ
0.8-2.5µ
0.8-2.5µ
0.8-2.5µ
Peak Quantum Efficiency
80%
64%
QE @ J band (1.28µ)
80%
58%
58%
80%
QE @ H band (1.67µ)
80%
58%
58%
QE @ K band
(2.00µ)
>65%
20%
80%
63%
62%
90%
QE @ Ks band (2.20µ)
80%
63%
First commissioning
December 1993
July
1991
February 1995
December 1997
March 2000
February 2003
Retired from service
1998
Temperature
60K
6K
30K
77K
70K
70K
Full-well capacity
250,000e-
148,400-179,200 e-
100,000-150,000 e-
Figure 1. Evolution of optical CCDs and infrared arrays at ING in terms of detection efficiency (=Peak Quantum
Efficiency(%)/Typical Readout Noise(e-)) [ JPEG | TIFF ].