[Comm2011] Saturation level

Gijs Verdoes Kleijn verdoes at astro.rug.nl
Tue Mar 29 15:22:56 CEST 2011


Hi Ewout,

I've looked at the report and put on
http://www.astro.rug.nl/~verdoes/temp/Caltest.pdf for your convenience.
My quick look suggests ADU>50000 has not been covered in the report to
make a statement. But you are way more intimate with the testing in 2005.

Cheers, Gijs


Op 27-3-2011 22:21, helmich schreef:
>
> Hi,
>
> Dietrich noted that at the moment the CCDs saturate at ~57000 ADU. 
> He'd like us to check if this slightly low value is the same as in 
> 2005. Can you look at the 2005 data, particularly the pinhole 
> observations we did for hysteresis, to find the saturation level? I 
> did not bring the 2005 data here.
>
> Ewout
>

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