CCD-world: About EEV4220 and binning

Wed Oct 27 12:09:10 CLST 1999

The following was posted to CCD-world:

*******************jj
Spurious charge . . . .?

Is it function of clock waveshaping and/or inversion ?
*********************jj

In a message dated 10/27/99 5:46:41 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
guillaume at obs-hp.fr writes:

<< The following was posted to CCD-world:

 Hi all;

 At OHP, we have reached the last phase of development of the new
 camera dedicated to our spectrometer "Aurelie" on the 1.52m telescope.
 That camera based on an EEV sensor, 4220 model, thinned, back-illuminated
 and non IMO type.
 We have reached a pretty good level of performances in full frame mode, or
 in windowing mode, using dump drain capability, but we observe a
 hard-to-understand
 phenomenon using binning mode.
 For example:
 Using binning mode on 100 lines (dark of 1s read by right output),
 we can see (on the resulting line) an increased level of about 25 e-, plus a
 level break
 on both right and left edges, (Cf  B100.ps or Page #1 in B100.pdf files)
 which length
 is a about 300 pix on both sides.

 The files are available by FTP in 2 formats on the following machine:

 Machine : st-iao.obs-hp.fr
 Login     : ccd
 Password : no password

 Our trouble is due to the symetrical look of that feature.
 Could it be due to a side effect? ( Mechanical ? ??)
 In this case the normal mode (Cf B100b.ps or Page #2 of B100.pdf files)
 would be at
 a too low level to allow detection of that phenomenon?
 We think it cannot be due to dark level current since it has been measured
 at
 0.5e-/hour/pix @ -110 Celsius.

 We also observed that it seems proportionnal to the number of lines binned.

 So, if somebody can explain us, it would be great...

 Many thanks...

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 ¦ Christian  GUILLAUME
 ¦ Michel GOILLANDEAU
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 ¦ Observatoire de Haute Provence         Fax: (33).04.92.70.64.64
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