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The LSST Camera Overview [electronic resource].

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Washington, D.C. : United States. Dept. of Energy, 2007.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
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Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, United States. Department of Energy, and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information
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Summary
The LSST camera is a wide-field optical (0.35-1um) imager designed to provide a 3.5 degree FOV with better than 0.2 arcsecond sampling. The detector format will be a circular mosaic providing approximately 3.2 Gigapixels per image. The camera includes a filter mechanism and, shuttering capability. It is positioned in the middle of the telescope where cross-sectional area is constrained by optical vignetting and heat dissipation must be controlled to limit thermal gradients in the optical beam. The fast, f/1.2 beam will require tight tolerances on the focal plane mechanical assembly. The focal plane array operates at a temperature of approximately -100 C to achieve desired detector performance. The focal plane array is contained within an evacuated cryostat, which incorporates detector front-end electronics and thermal control. The cryostat lens serves as an entrance window and vacuum seal for the cryostat. Similarly, the camera body lens serves as an entrance window and gas seal for the camera housing, which is filled with a suitable gas to provide the operating environment for the shutter and filter change mechanisms. The filter carousel can accommodate 5 filters, each 75 cm in diameter, for rapid exchange without external intervention.
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E 1.99:slac-pub-12291
slac-pub-12291
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Published through SciTech Connect.
01/10/2007.
"slac-pub-12291"
To appear in the proceedings of SPIE Conference on Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation, Orlando, Florida, 24-31 May 2006.
O'Connor, Paul; Burke, David; Nordby, Martin; Schindler, Rafe; Kahn, Steven A.; Gilmore, Kirk; Oliver, John; Radeka, Veljko; Schalk, Terry.
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AC02-76SF00515
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