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Technology validation of the PLATO CCD at ESA
Thibaut Prod'homme,Peter Verhoeve,Thierry Beaufort,Ludovic Duvet,Frederic Lemmel,Hans Smit,Sander Blommaert,T. Oosterbroek,Cornelis van der Luijt,Ivo Visser,Jerko Heijnen,Bart Butler +11 more
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In this paper, a large format (8 cm x 8 cm) Charge-Coupled Devices (CCDs) the e2v CCD270 operated at 4 MHz were evaluated before and after proton irradiation.Abstract:
PLATO { PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars { is the third medium-class mission to be selected in the European Space Agency (ESA) Science and Robotic Exploration Cosmic Vision programme. Due for launch in 2025, the payload makes use of a large format (8 cm x 8 cm) Charge-Coupled Devices (CCDs) the e2v CCD270 operated at 4 MHz. The manufacture of such large device in large quantity constitutes an unprecedented effort. To de-risk the PLATO CCD procurement and aid the mission definition process, ESA's Payload Technology Validation team is characterizing the electro-optical performance of a number of PLATO devices before and after proton irradiation.read more
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PLATO: A multiple telescope spacecraft for exo-planets hunting
Roberto Ragazzoni,Demetrio Magrin,Heike Rauer,Isabella Pagano,Valerio Nascimbeni,Giampaolo Piotto,Daniele Piazza,Patrick Levacher,M. Schweitzer,Stefano Basso,T. Bandy,Willy Benz,Maria Bergomi,Federico Biondi,Anko Boerner,Francesco Borsa,Alexis Brandeker,Mathias Brändli,Giordano Bruno,Juan Cabrera,Simonetta Chinellato,Thierry De Roche,Marco Dima,Anders Erikson,Jacopo Farinato,Matteo Munari,Mauro Ghigo,Davide Greggio,Marco Gullieuszik,Maximilian Klebor,Luca Marafatto,Valery Mogulsky,Gisbert Peter,Martin Rieder,Daniela Sicilia,Daniele Spiga,Valentina Viotto,M. Wieser,Ana M. Heras,Philippe Gondoin,P. Bodin,C. Catala +41 more
TL;DR: PLATO as discussed by the authors is a medium sized mission selected as M3 by the European Space Agency as part of the Cosmic Vision program to scrutinize a large fraction of the sky collecting lightcurves of a large number of stars and detecting transits of exo-planets whose apparent orbit allow for the transit to be visible from the Earth.
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Pyxel: a novel and multi-purpose Python-based framework for imaging detector simulation
David Lucsanyi,Thibaut Prod'homme,Hans Smit,Frederic Lemmel,Pierre-Elie Crouzet,Peter Verhoeve,Brian Shortt +6 more
TL;DR: The architecture of the Pyxel framework is presented, how to integrate new models in it and a few examples of its current simulation capabilities are given.
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Optical and dark characterization of the PLATO CCD at ESA
Peter Verhoeve,Thibaut Prod'homme,T. Oosterbroek,Ludovic Duvet,Thierry Beaufort,Sander Blommaert,Bart Butler,Jerko Heijnen,Frederic Lemmel,Cornelis van der Luijt,Hans Smit,Ivo Visser +11 more
TL;DR: In this article, the performance of the PLATO CCD was evaluated in the dark and optically with respect to performance parameters directly relevant for the photometric application of the CCDs.
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Comparative Study of Cryogenic Versus Room-Temperature Proton Irradiation of N-Channel CCDs and Subsequent Annealing
Thibaut Prod'homme,Peter Verhoeve,Frederic Lemmel,Hans Smit,Sander Blommaert,Cornelis van der Luijt,Ivo Visser,Thierry Beaufort,Yves Levillain,Brian Shortt +9 more
TL;DR: In this paper, two PLATO Teledyne-e2v CCD280s have been proton irradiated: one whilst operating at cold and the other unbiased at room temperature, and the differences in the postirradiation hot pixel population, trap species, and charge transfer inefficiency (CTI), including after annealing, were reported.
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Teledyne e2v sensors optimised for ground-based and space applications
Paul Jorden,Denis Bourke,Ryan Cassidy,Paul Jerram,Jérôme Pratlong,Ian Swindells,Charles Woffinden +6 more
TL;DR: An exciting new capability for back-biased CMOS imagers with significantly enhanced red-sensitivity is presented and it is now possible to supply CMOS sensors with comparable performance to CCDs.
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The PLATO 2.0 Mission
Heike Rauer,C. Catala,Conny Aerts,T. Appourchaux,Willy Benz,Alexis Brandeker,Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard,Magali Deleuil,Laurent Gizon,M. J. Goupil,Manuel Güdel,Eduardo Janot-Pacheco,M. Mas-Hesse,I. Pagano,Giampaolo Piotto,Don Pollacco,Nuno C. Santos,Amanda J. Smith,Suárez,Róbert Szabó,Stéphane Udry,V. Adibekyan,Yann Alibert,J. M. Almenara,Pau Amaro-Seoane,M. Ammler-von Eiff,Martin Asplund,Elio Antonello,Warrick H. Ball,Sydney A. Barnes,F. Baudin,Kevin Belkacem,Maria Bergemann,G. Bihain,Aaron C. Birch,Xavier Bonfils,Isabelle Boisse,Aldo S. Bonomo,Francesco Borsa,I. M. Brandão,Enzo Brocato,S. Brun,Matthew R. Burleigh,R. Burston,Juan Cabrera,Santi Cassisi,William J. Chaplin,Stéphane Charpinet,Cristina Chiappini,Ross P. Church,Sz. Csizmadia,Margarida S. Cunha,Mario Damasso,Melvyn B. Davies,Hans J. Deeg,Rodrigo F. Díaz,S. Dreizler,C. Dreyer,P. Eggenberger,David Ehrenreich,Philipp Eigmüller,Anders Erikson,Robert Farmer,Sofia Feltzing,F. De Oliveira Fialho,P. Figueira,T. Forveille,M. Fridlund,Rafael A. García,Paolo Giommi,G. Giuffrida,M Godolt,J. Gomes da Silva,T. Granzer,John Lee Grenfell,A. Grotsch-Noels,E. Günther,Carole A. Haswell,A. P. Hatzes,G. Hebrard,Saskia Hekker,Ravit Helled,Kevin Heng,Jon M. Jenkins,Anders Johansen,Maxim L. Khodachenko,Kristina G. Kislyakova,Wilhelm Kley,Ulrich Kolb,Natalie A. Krivova,Friedrich Kupka,Helmut Lammer,Antonino F. Lanza,Yveline Lebreton,Demetrio Magrin,P. Marcos-Arenal,P. M. Marrese,J. P. Marques,J. H. C. Martins,Stéphane Mathis,Savita Mathur,S. Messina,Andrea Miglio,Josefina Montalbán,M. Montalto,Mário J. P. F. G. Monteiro,Hamed Moradi,Ehsan Moravveji,Christoph Mordasini,Thierry Morel,Annelies Mortier,Valerio Nascimbeni,Richard P. Nelson,Martin Bo Nielsen,Lena Noack,Andrew Norton,Aviv Ofir,Mahmoudreza Oshagh,R. M. Ouazzani,Péter Pápics,V. C. Parro,Pascal Petit,Bertrand Plez,E. Poretti,A. Quirrenbach,Roberto Ragazzoni,Gabriella Raimondo,Monica Rainer,Daniel R. Reese,Ronald Redmer,Sabine Reffert,Bárbara Rojas-Ayala,Ian W. Roxburgh,S. Salmon,Alexandre Santerne,Jean Schneider,Jesper Schou,Sonja Schuh,Hannah Schunker,A. Silva-Valio,Roberto Silvotti,I. Skillen,Ignas Snellen,Frank Sohl,S. G. Sousa,Alessandro Sozzetti,Dennis Stello,Klaus G. Strassmeier,Michal Švanda,Gy. M. Szabó,Andrew Tkachenko,Diana Valencia,Valérie Van Grootel,Sylvie Vauclair,Paolo Ventura,F. W. Wagner,N. A. Walton,J. Weingrill,Stephanie C. Werner,Peter J. Wheatley,Konstanze Zwintz +160 more
TL;DR: The PLATO 2.0 instrument consists of 34 small aperture telescopes (32 with 25 sec readout cadence and 2 with 2.5 sec candence) providing a wide field-of-view (2232 deg2) and a large photometric magnitude range (4-16 mag) as discussed by the authors.
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The PLATO 2.0 mission
Heike Rauer,Heike Rauer,C. Catala,Conny Aerts,Thierry Appourchaux,Willy Benz,Alexis Brandeker,Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard,Magali Deleuil,Laurent Gizon,Laurent Gizon,M. J. Goupil,Manuel Güdel,Eduardo Janot-Pacheco,M. Mas-Hesse,Isabella Pagano,Giampaolo Piotto,Don Pollacco,Ċ. Santos,Andrew Smith,Juan Carlos Suárez,Róbert Szabó,Stéphane Udry,V. Adibekyan,Yann Alibert,J. M. Almenara,Pau Amaro-Seoane,M. Ammler-von Eiff,Martin Asplund,E. Antonello,Sydney A. Barnes,Frédéric Baudin,K. Belkacem,Maria Bergemann,G. Bihain,Aaron C. Birch,Xavier Bonfils,Isabelle Boisse,Aldo S. Bonomo,Francesco Borsa,I. M. Brandão,Enzo Brocato,S. Brun,Matthew R. Burleigh,R. Burston,Juan Cabrera,Santi Cassisi,William J. Chaplin,Stéphane Charpinet,Cristina Chiappini,Ross P. Church,Sz. Csizmadia,Margarida S. Cunha,Mario Damasso,Mario Damasso,Melvyn B. Davies,Hans J. Deeg,Rodrigo F. Díaz,Stefan Dreizler,C. Dreyer,C. Dreyer,P. Eggenberger,David Ehrenreich,Philipp Eigmüller,Anders Erikson,Robert Farmer,Sofia Feltzing,F. De Oliveira Fialho,Pedro Figueira,T. Forveille,Malcolm Fridlund,Rafael A. García,Paolo Giommi,G. Giuffrida,G. Giuffrida,M. Godolt,J. Gomes da Silva,T. Granzer,John Lee Grenfell,A. Grotsch-Noels,E. Günther,Carole A. Haswell,A. P. Hatzes,Guillaume Hébrard,Saskia Hekker,Saskia Hekker,Ravit Helled,Kevin Heng,Jon M. Jenkins,Anders Johansen,Maxim L. Khodachenko,Kristina G. Kislyakova,Wilhelm Kley,Ulrich Kolb,Natalie A. Krivova,Friedrich Kupka,Helmut Lammer,Antonino F. Lanza,Yveline Lebreton,Demetrio Magrin,P. Marcos-Arenal,P. M. Marrese,P. M. Marrese,J. P. Marques,J. H. C. Martins,S. Mathis,Savita Mathur,S. Messina,Andrea Miglio,Josefina Montalbán,M. Montalto,Mário J. P. F. G. Monteiro,Hamed Moradi,Ehsan Moravveji,Christoph Mordasini,Thierry Morel,Annelies Mortier,Valerio Nascimbeni,Richard P. Nelson,Martin Bo Nielsen,Lena Noack,Andrew Norton,Aviv Ofir,Mahmoudreza Oshagh,R.-M. Ouazzani,Péter Pápics,V. C. Parro,Pascal Petit,Bertrand Plez,Ennio Poretti,Andreas Quirrenbach,Roberto Ragazzoni,Giuliano Raimondo,Monica Rainer,Daniel R. Reese,Ronald Redmer,Sabine Reffert,Bárbara Rojas-Ayala,Ian W. Roxburgh,Stéphanie Salmon,Alexandre Santerne,Jean Schneider,Jesper Schou,Sonja Schuh,Hannah Schunker,A. Silva-Valio,Roberto Silvotti,I. Skillen,Ignas Snellen,Frank Sohl,S. G. Sousa,Alessandro Sozzetti,Dennis Stello,Klaus G. Strassmeier,Michal Švanda,Gy. M. Szabó,Gy. M. Szabó,Andrew Tkachenko,Diana Valencia,Valérie Van Grootel,Sylvie Vauclair,Paolo Ventura,F. W. Wagner,N. A. Walton,Joerg Weingrill,Stephanie C. Werner,Peter J. Wheatley,Konstanze Zwintz +167 more
TL;DR: The PLATO 2.0 mission as discussed by the authors has been selected for ESA's M3 launch opportunity (2022/24) to provide accurate key planet parameters (radius, mass, density and age) in statistical numbers.
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The effect of bulk traps in proton irradiated EEV CCDs
TL;DR: In this article, the effect of bulk traps on the CTI of MOS CCDs is modelled and is compared to experimental data, and it is shown that the initial device CTI performance may be accounted for by bulk traps in the silicon used to make the devices.
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An analytical model of radiation-induced Charge Transfer Inefficiency for CCD detectors
TL;DR: In this paper, a charge distortion model was developed specifically for the Gaia CCD operating mode, which was applied in a broader context, for example to investigate the impact of radiation damage on the Euclid dark-energy mission data.