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CP40 is a set of four Thomson CCDs fed through a fiber optics reducer and splitter, with a common stack of a 40 mm diameter VARO image tube (the entrance stage) coupled with a RTC microchannel plate intensifier. A hardware photon-centroiding processor giving an accuracy of 1/4 CCD pixel increases the number of pixels to 3072x2304 logical pixels of 13 µm. Performances and future developments are outlined.
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Foy, R. (1988). The Photon Counting Camera CP40. In: Robinson, L.B. (eds) Instrumentation for Ground-Based Optical Astronomy. Santa Cruz Summer Workshops in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3880-5_58
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