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Array Detectors and Instruments for the ESO VLT

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2017

Sandro D'Odorico
Sandro D'Odorico*
Affiliation:
European Southern Observatory

Abstract

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Two-D array detectors are one of the key components of the instruments being built for the four ESO 8-m telescopes, the VLT project. Three optical and two infrared instruments are under construction. One faint object imager and multi-slit spectrograph to operate in the spectral region 350–1000 nm (acronym FORS) is based on a 20482 high-efficiency CCD. A two-channel echelle spectrograph to work in the 300–1000 nm region (UVRS) is built around a mosaic of 20482, 15 μm CCDs. A multifiber, new spectrograph is based on a 4096 × 2048, 16 μm CCD. The two infrared high-resolution instruments, one imager/long-slit spectrometer (ISAAC) and one high-resolution camera are designed to work with adaptive optics and in the speckle mode (CONICA). Both are designed to incorporate IR arrays up to a format of 10242 and will work in the spectral region of 1–5 μm. The main properties of the instruments and of detectors are presented and their close interdependence is illustrated.

Type
Section I — Review Papers
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 167: New Developments in Array Technology and Applications , 1995 , pp. 9 - 17
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1995 

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