Bibcode
Castro-Rodriguez, N.; González-Fenández, Carlos; Hammersley, Peter L.; López-Martín, L.; Barreto, Mary; Patrón, Jesús; Garzón, F.; Díaz, J. J.; Nuñez, M.; Gago, Fernando
Bibliographical reference
High Energy, Optical, and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy V. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 8453, id. 84532I-84532I-10 (2012).
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Description
EMIR is the NIR imager and multiobject spectrograph being built as a
common user instrument for the GTC and it is currently entering in the
integration and verification phase at system level. EMIR is being built
by a Consortium of Spanish and French institutes led by the IAC. In this
paper we describe the readout modes of EMIR detector, a Hawaii2 FPA,
after two full calibrations campaigns. Besides the standard set of modes
(reset-read, CDS, Fowler, Follow-up the ramp), the modified SDSU-III
hardware and home made software will also offer high dynamic range
readout modes, which will improve the ability of the instrument to sound
densely populated areas which often are made of objects with large
differences in brightness. These new high dynamic range modes are:
single readout with very short integration time, window mode and
combination of both. The results show that the new modes behave linearly
with different exposition times, improve the maximum frame rate and
increase the saturation limit in image mode for EMIR instrument.