7th International Conference on Position Sensitive Detectors

Session

S5 : Applications in Astronomy and Astrophysics

S5

13 Sept 2005, 13:30

University of Liverpool

125. Technology Roadmap for Detectors for Astronomy

Prof. Colin Cunningham (Director, Technological Development, Royal Obervatory)

13/09/2005, 13:30

Applications in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Invited Talk

The future requirements for Astronomy and Astrophysics sensor development covering the sub-mm to X-ray range will be discussed.

66. DEPFET Active Pixel Sensors and pnCCDs for room temperature imaging (Xray) Spectroscopy in space missions and terrestrial astronomy

Dr Johannes Treis (MPI Munich)

13/09/2005, 14:00

Applications in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Contributed Talk

Two dimensional back-illuminated (500 µm sensitive thickness) X-ray pixel detectors with pixel sizes from 36 µm, 51µm, 75 µm to 150 µm have been developed for applications in X-ray astronomy (0.1 keV to 20keV) and for wave front sensing in adaptive optics systems up to 1 µm wavelength in the NIR. In both applications the environmental conditions are such that operation at ``warm...

78. Large Area Near Infrared Detectors for Astronomy

Mr Derek Ives (UK Astronomy Technology Centre, Edinburgh)

13/09/2005, 14:15

Applications in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Contributed Talk

The technology of Infrared detectors has made significant advances over the last decade evolving from their small size and number of pixels to the present large format 2k x 2k pixel devices. These large format near infrared detectors (1 – 2.5µm) are now routinely available to the astronomical community and are based on HgCdTe grown by either an LPE or MBE process on silicon or CdZnTe...

47. Development of Large area Gamma-ray Camera with GSO(Ce) Scintillator Arrays and PSPMTs

Mr Hironobu Nishimura (Kyoto University, Japan)

13/09/2005, 14:30

Applications in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Contributed Talk

We have developed a position-sensitive scintillation camera with an area of 15×15cm2 for absorber of a Compton gamma-ray camera for astronomy. It consists of 3×3 array of position sensitive PMTs (Hamamatsu Flatpanel H8500). Each PMT has 8×8 anodes with a pitch of 6mm and is coupled to 8×8 array of pixelated 6×6×13mm3 GSO scintillators. We chose the GSO scintillator because it has...