By Paola Amico, James W. Beletic
th The four ESO CCO Workshop, Optical Detectors for Astronomy, was once held in the course of September 13-16, 1999 at its ordinary situation, the headquarters of the ecu Southern Observatory in Garching, Germany. We wish to keep in mind this workshop as a "meeting of friends", who got here to Garching to go to ESO and to offer their paintings, instead of a proper assembly. in accordance with our event with the 1996 ESO CCO workshop, we intentionally positioned emphasis on developing an atmosphere that inspired the individuals to stick jointly and informally trade rules. those casual occasions begun with a travel of the BWM vehicle manufacturing facility and persisted with a reception at "SchloB Beletic", the convention dinner at a true SchloB of the Bavarian overseas college (where the contributors loved basket, baseball, desk football, mountain climbing and at last dancing) and concluded with a travel of the Paulaner Brewery and dinner on the Seehaus within the Englisher Garten. The lunch "Biergarten", adjoining to the poster consultation sector, used to be a regular assembly element. the outcome was once an exceptional mix of very good displays and posters, amassed in those lawsuits, and plenty of events for individuals to get involved and to have a good time jointly, as witnessed via the choice of workshop photos that we randomly positioned among papers. This booklet incorporates a distinct contribution.
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FIERA can read a total of 40 million pixels per second from all ports combined. FIERA also achieves low noise performance over a range of speeds and it is fully programmable and modular so that it can be adapted to a wide variety of applications. The FIERA software fits seamlessly into the VLT control environment. With 14 system deliveries thus far, system integration and delivery is becoming a smooth process. FIERA has an excellent record for reliability - with a total of 10 systems operating on the telescope, the longest for 2 1/2 years, not a single exposure has been lost due to electronics or software failure.
Finally, the amount of the "defects" induced by cosmic rays should be minimized by the choice of the material u~ed for the CCD package and the head of the detector. 5 event/min/cm2 for the EEV devices. 9999988 using the Extended Pixel Edge Response method [1] in the overscan areas. It means that a pixel having 1000 electrons located on the side opposite to the readout port (X=2048, Y=41(0) will lose 6 electrons, once the charge packet reaches the readout node (photon shot noise is around 31e- at this level).
5m telescope, under development at the Astrophysical Institute Potsdam. With kind permission of the ESO Optical Detector Group, ESO designs for the CCD detector heads and controllers have been employed. We will describe the current status of the project and report on the performance of the 2 CCD systems that are built into PMAS. 1. PMAS, THE POTSDAM MULTI-ApERTURE SPECTROPHOTOMETER PMAS is currently being designed and built at the Astrophysical Institute Potsdam, Germany, for use at the Calar Alto Observatory 305m Telescope.