VUV testing of science cameras at MSFC: QE measurement of the CLASP flight cameras

P. Champey; K. Kobayashi; A. Winebarger; J. Cirtain; D. Hyde; B. Robertson; B. Beabout; D. Beabout; M. Stewart

doi:10.1117/12.2188754

24 August 2015 VUV testing of science cameras at MSFC: QE measurement of the CLASP flight cameras

P. Champey, K. Kobayashi, A. Winebarger, J. Cirtain, D. Hyde, B. Robertson, B. Beabout, D. Beabout, M. Stewart

Proceedings Volume 9601, UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XIX; 96010Z (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2188754
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2015, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) has developed a science camera suitable for sub-orbital missions for observations in the UV, EUV and soft X-ray. Six cameras were built and tested for the Chromospheric Lyman-Alpha Spectro-Polarimeter (CLASP), a joint MSFC, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC) and Institut D'Astrophysique Spatiale (IAS) sounding rocket mission. The CLASP camera design includes a frame-transfer e2v CCD57-10 512 × 512 detector, dual channel analog readout and an internally mounted cold block. At the flight CCD temperature of -20C, the CLASP cameras exceeded the low-noise performance requirements (≤ 25 e⁻ read noise and ≤ 10 e⁻ /sec/pixel dark current), in addition to maintaining a stable gain of ≈ 2.0 e⁻/DN. The e2v CCD57-10 detectors were coated with Lumogen-E to improve quantum efficiency (QE) at the Lyman- wavelength. A vacuum ultra-violet (VUV) monochromator and a NIST calibrated photodiode were employed to measure the QE of each camera. Three flight cameras and one engineering camera were tested in a high-vacuum chamber, which was configured to operate several tests intended to verify the QE, gain, read noise and dark current of the CCD. We present and discuss the QE measurements performed on the CLASP cameras. We also discuss the high-vacuum system outfitted for testing of UV, EUV and X-ray science cameras at MSFC.

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P. Champey, K. Kobayashi, A. Winebarger, J. Cirtain, D. Hyde, B. Robertson, B. Beabout, D. Beabout, and M. Stewart "VUV testing of science cameras at MSFC: QE measurement of the CLASP flight cameras", Proc. SPIE 9601, UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XIX, 96010Z (24 August 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2188754

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