Silicon/Tungsten ECal for the SD Detector ­ Status and Progress R. Frey U. Oregon UT Arlington, Jan 10, 2003 Outline · · Physics Goals for ECal ъ Resolution requirements R&D for the Si/W ECal for SD ъ Description ъ EGS4 model ъ Required simulation studies ъ Plans UT Arlington R. Frey 2 ECal Goals · Photons in Jets ъ Id. with high efficiency and measure with reasonable E resolution · ... in a very busy environment. ... ъ Begin test beam studies (2005-ish) UT Arlington R. Frey 23 ...

To main of Laboratory . The research work and design of optical and optical-electronic devices are carries out by laboratory staff: . ... Lens: . ... In the layout 1 prism systems perform functions of dispersive element, corrector of aberrations, optical reducer. ... Spectral range 200 - 400 nm; . ... Back Forward . ... The main corrector's function are compensation of field aberrations of the main spherical mirror of a telescope (diameter of 600 mm, f'=1200 mm) and increase aperture ratio. ...

Next: Detection Efficiency Up: CCD Scientific Performance Previous: CCD Scientific Performance . The X-ray energy required to liberate a charge pair in a semiconductor is approximately an order of magnitude lower than in gas detectors, hence the potential spectroscopic advantage of CCD detectors. ... For a number of years, good scientific CCDs attained noise performance of electrons rms, but this limited the energy resolution for X-ray energies 3keV. ...

... Next: The PROS Big Up: Software Systems Previous: Data Reduction Software . ... The srcinten task provides PROS users with a tool to compute count rates for point sources in the ROSAT High Resolution Imager (HRI). ... Corrected upper limits are cited at locations where the count rate falls below the source detection threshold. ... Srcinten is a new PROS task that computes and applies the above correction factors to the net counts in a user-specified aperture. ...

... After hearing and discussing Rocket-Space Corporation Energy General Designer U.P.Semevov's report on the fulfilling the flight program of the orbital complex Mir and proposals on its further exploitation, the Council draws attention to: . ... According to the Russian Government Resolution No. 76 of January 21, 1999 a large amount of work to find and attract Russian and foreign investments to provide the further exploitation of the orbital station Mir was carried out. ...

... Design of Imaging Optics . Analyzing Optics . ... The high resolution near infrared camera (CONICA) for the first VLT unit telescope is under development. It serves as a multi-mode instrument for the wavelength region between 1.0 and 5.0 microns, providing diffraction-limited spatial resolution when combined with the adaptive optic system NAOS of the VLT (Rosset et al. ... VLT instrumentation, ALADDIN InSb detector, NIR imaging, NIR spectroscopy, re-imaging optics, IR optics . ...

... ACS Instrument Handbook . ... Advanced Camera for Surveys Instrument Handbook for Cycle 20 > Chapter 3: Introduction to ACS > 3.3 Instrument Design . ... The nonfunctioning HRC has a 1024 x 1024 SITe CCD, with 21 x 21 µm pixels that provided ~0.028 x 0.025 arcsecond/pixel spatial resolution with critical sampling at 6300 е. This gave the HRC a nominal 29 x 26 arcsecond field of view. ... The ACS design incorporates two main optical channels: one for the WFC, and one which is shared by the HRC and...

A CCD BASED DIGITAL DETECTOR FOR WHOLE-BREAST DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY . ... In the digital system the light photons are transferred onto a charge-coupled device (CCD) by a demagnifying fiber optic taper. ... 2 Detector Design . The detector design, as shown in Figure 1, involves the conversion of x-ray photons into visible photons by a phosphor screen held in contact with the large end of a demagnifying fiber optic taper. ... Figure 1. (a) (b) . ... 3 Detector Characterization and Imaging Results . ...

... The collecting area is increased by nesting concentric mirror pairs, all having the same focal length. ... Figure shows the largest optical element being ground at HDOS. ... X-ray testing demonstrated that the CXO mirrors are indeed the largest high-resolution X-ray optics ever made; the nominal effective area (based on the ground calibrations) is shown as a function of energy in the left panel of Figure , along with those of their Einstein and ROSAT predecessors. ...

... TBB: retain a few seconds of raw data Off-line follow-up Coherent dedisperse The Matched Filter Optimal detector for a known signal in known Gaussian noise Matches expected signal shape (template, h) to data (s), and sums Pros: optimal for a given Gaussian dataset Cons: requires full signal knowledge , not blind to signal shape Performance : signal -to-noise ratios Template matched to ...

... scattered light in flats less than 0.5% across 5' field of view . scattered light in flats less than 0.5% across entire field . ... no greater than 10% across field, and calibrateable to better than 1%. no greater than 5% across field, and calibrateable to better than 0.5%. ... provide unvignetted illumination across detector with new SDSS filter set . ... throughput stable to better than 0.5% over course of a night. throughput stable to better than 5% over thermal cycling and seasonal variation . ...

... Invariably, video recording and transmission of lectures comes up as the number one important idea. ... In a conventional classroom setting, with the instructor using a blackboard (or two or three), you'd want to video everything on the blackboard. ... Video is poorly suited to do this. ... Recording size is also solved - recording audio takes up much less spess than audio+video - the example given above that required 100 Gb of disk space for video would only need about 1.5 Gb for the audio. ...

... The MROI makes use of optical interferometry, much like COAST . ... As a major collaborator, the Cambridge Astrophysics Group is currently developing some of the mechanisms below, specifically the delay line and the fast tip-tilt system. ... Fringe tracking is used to control the positions of the delay line trolleys to make sure the light beams from the different telescopes in the MROI arrive at the science camera beam combiners in phase so that an interference pattern can be produced. ...

Static Fourier spectrometers are often used for spectral measurements of the ionosphere emissions. There are two main advantages of Fourier spectrometers (FS) - large geometric factor and high spectral resolution; these parameters are two orders better than for grating spectral instruments. ... In scanning Fourier spectrometer optical and electric modulation of signal is used to avoid this problem, for static Fourier spectrometer there are no such ways. ...

... European Remote Sensing Satellite (ERS-1) was launched on 17 July 1991, and the follow mission ERS-2 (with the same sensors and an Ozone monitoring instrument added) was launched on 21 April 1995. ... ERS-2 has a fixed repeat cycle of 35 days, and follows ERS-1 tracks with one day's delay. ... Swath width is 102.5 km (telemetered), spatial resolution is about 25x25 m. The Advanced SAR (ASAR) instrument is carried by ESA's ENVISAT satellite launched on 1 March 2002. ... Swath . ... Spatial Resolution...

Telescope Tip-Tilt Secondary Mirror The tip-tilt secondary mirror on the ANU 2.3 m telescope · Measures and adjusts image position at 30 Hz · Corrects image blur produced by turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere · Both the tip-tilt secondary mirror and the 2.3 m telescope were designed and constructed by RSAA ...

... It is equipped with a Hawaii-II PACE array. ... Parameters of the GIANO detector and control electronics, all values are at T=80 K Parameter Bad or (quasi-)blind pixels Warm pixels ( dark current 10 e- /s for Vreset =0.13 V) Pixels affected by radioactive-like events Usable well capacity (Vreset =0.13 V) Conversion factor Readout noise in shortest double correlated frame Measured dark current, including internal background ... Left panel: bad pixels mask of the GIANO detector. ...

... The choice of the spectrograph design (Fig.2) is determined by the quantity R, the overall dimensions of the PF cage and the restrictions on the rigidity of the structure of the device. ... As the camera's objective a fast 4-lens aplanat is used having a focal distance F cam =140 mm and a relative aperture of 1:1.8, the resolution at the centre is no less than 80 gr/mm, that over the field at a distance of 3 mm from the edge along the frame ( ) diagonal is 35 gr/mm. ...

TOWARDS SUPERSENSITIVE BOLOMETERS AND ELECTRON COOLERS BASED ON CARBON NANOTUBES M.TARASOV, J.SVENSSON, S.DITTMER, L.KUZMIN, AND E.CAMPBELL Chalmers University of Technology, GЖteborg SE 41294, Sweden E-mail: Mikhail.tarasov@mc2.chalmers.se Carbon nanotubes (CNT) are being intensively developed for novel electronics. Electron cooling by superconductor-insulator-nanotube (SIN) tunnel junctions could be extremely effective due to the small volume of the CNT. ...

... For the first balloon flight of the Nuclear Compton Telescope (NCT) we have simultaneously reduced lowenergy background and enabled hard X-ray imaging by enshrouding the top of the instrument in a tin shield (bottom had BGO shielding), with part of the shield having strategically placed holes -- a 10% open coded aperture mask working up to 80 keV in conjunction with the finely pixellated double-sided Ge strip detectors. ... Key words: Compton telescope, coded mask, hard X-ray imaging, NCT. ...