Abstract
PMAS, the Potsdam Multi-Aperture Spectrophotometer, is an optical integral field instrument for the Calar Alto 3.5m telescope, under development at the Astrophysical Institute Potsdam. With kind permission of the ESO Optical Detector Group, ESO designs for the CCD detector heads and controllers have been employed. We will describe the current status of the project and report on the performance of the 2 CCD systems that are built into PMAS.
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Fechner, T., Wolter, D., Roth, M.M. (2000). CCD Systems for PMAS. In: Amico, P., Beletic, J.W. (eds) Optical Detectors For Astronomy II. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 252. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4361-5_6
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