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The OmegaCAM will cover the 1 deg 1 deg × 1 deg field of view of the ESO VLT Survey Telescope with thirty two 2K×4K pixels CCDs. Since the replacement of a unit detector or a rearrangement of the mosaic after commissioning is not an option, every detector needs to be fully characterized in advance. These chips need to be tested under astronomical operating conditions, which differ from average CCD manufacturer procedures. The changes realized in the testbench and the results of the measurements are described below.
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Amico, P., Böhn, T., 1997, ESO’s New CCD testbench, In J. W. Beletic and P. Amico (eds): Optical detectors for astronomy, Astrophysics and space science library, vol. 228, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, pp. 95–114.
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Christen, F. et al. (2004). Characterizing the CCDS of the Omegacam Wide-Angle Camera. In: Amico, P., Beletic, J.W., Beletic, J.E. (eds) Scientific Detectors for Astronomy. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 300. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-2527-0_64
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