The solar orbiter Metis and EUI intensified CMOS-APS detectors: concept, main characteristics, and performance

Date Issued
2018
Author(s)
Schühle, Udo
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Teriaca, Luca
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Aznar Cuadrado, Regina
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Heerlein, Klaus
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Werner, Stephan
DOI
Abstract
Two instruments aboard the Solar Orbiter mission, the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager and the Metis coronagraph, are using cameras of similar design to obtain images in the Lyman alpha line of hydrogen at 121.6 nm. Each of these cameras is based on an APS sensor used as readout of a single microchannel plate intensifier unit whose output current is converted into visible light photons through a phosphor screen. Before integration on the respective instruments, both detector's flight models have been characterized and calibrated. In this paper, we describe the two camera systems, the results of qualification tests, and report their performance characteristics.
Coverage
Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray
All editors
den Herder, Jan-Willem A.; Nikzad, Shouleh; Nakazawa, Kazuhiro
Series
Volume
10699
Start page
1069934
Conferenece
Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray
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Austin, Texas, USA
Conferenece date
10-15 June, 2018
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0277-786X
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2018SPIE10699E..34S
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open.access
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