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author Ó, Clarissa R. Do
Perera, Saavidra
Maire, Jérôme
Nguyen, Jayke S.
Chambouleyron, Vincent
Konopacky, Quinn M.
Chilcote, Jeffrey
Fitzsimmons, Joeleff
Hamper, Randall
Kerley, Dan
Macintosh, Bruce
Marois, Christian
Rantakyrö, Fredrik
Savranksy, Dmitry
Veran, Jean-Pierre
Agapito, Guido
Ammons, S. Mark
Bonaglia, Marco
Boucher, Marc-Andre
Dunn, Jennifer
Esposito, Simone
Filion, Guillaume
Landry, Jean Thomas
Lardiere, Olivier
Li, Duan
Madurowicz, Alex
Peng, Dillon
Poyneer, Lisa
Spalding, Eckhart
author_facet Ó, Clarissa R. Do
Perera, Saavidra
Maire, Jérôme
Nguyen, Jayke S.
Chambouleyron, Vincent
Konopacky, Quinn M.
Chilcote, Jeffrey
Fitzsimmons, Joeleff
Hamper, Randall
Kerley, Dan
Macintosh, Bruce
Marois, Christian
Rantakyrö, Fredrik
Savranksy, Dmitry
Veran, Jean-Pierre
Agapito, Guido
Ammons, S. Mark
Bonaglia, Marco
Boucher, Marc-Andre
Dunn, Jennifer
Esposito, Simone
Filion, Guillaume
Landry, Jean Thomas
Lardiere, Olivier
Li, Duan
Madurowicz, Alex
Peng, Dillon
Poyneer, Lisa
Spalding, Eckhart
contents The Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) is a high contrast imaging instrument that aims to detect and characterize extrasolar planets. GPI is being upgraded to GPI 2.0, with several subsystems receiving a re-design to improve its contrast. To enable observations on fainter targets and increase performance on brighter ones, one of the upgrades is to the adaptive optics system. The current Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor (WFS) is being replaced by a pyramid WFS with an low-noise electron multiplying CCD (EMCCD). EMCCDs are detectors capable of counting single photon events at high speed and high sensitivity. In this work, we characterize the performance of the HNü 240 EMCCD from Nüvü Cameras, which was custom-built for GPI 2.0. Through our performance evaluation we found that the operating mode of the camera had to be changed from inverted-mode (IMO) to non-inverted mode (NIMO) in order to improve charge diffusion features found in the detector's images. Here, we characterize the EMCCD's noise contributors (readout noise, clock-induced charges, dark current) and linearity tests (EM gain, exposure time) before and after the switch to NIMO.
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spellingShingle GPI 2.0: Exploring The Impact of Different Readout Modes on the Wavefront Sensor's EMCCD
Ó, Clarissa R. Do
Perera, Saavidra
Maire, Jérôme
Nguyen, Jayke S.
Chambouleyron, Vincent
Konopacky, Quinn M.
Chilcote, Jeffrey
Fitzsimmons, Joeleff
Hamper, Randall
Kerley, Dan
Macintosh, Bruce
Marois, Christian
Rantakyrö, Fredrik
Savranksy, Dmitry
Veran, Jean-Pierre
Agapito, Guido
Ammons, S. Mark
Bonaglia, Marco
Boucher, Marc-Andre
Dunn, Jennifer
Esposito, Simone
Filion, Guillaume
Landry, Jean Thomas
Lardiere, Olivier
Li, Duan
Madurowicz, Alex
Peng, Dillon
Poyneer, Lisa
Spalding, Eckhart
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
The Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) is a high contrast imaging instrument that aims to detect and characterize extrasolar planets. GPI is being upgraded to GPI 2.0, with several subsystems receiving a re-design to improve its contrast. To enable observations on fainter targets and increase performance on brighter ones, one of the upgrades is to the adaptive optics system. The current Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor (WFS) is being replaced by a pyramid WFS with an low-noise electron multiplying CCD (EMCCD). EMCCDs are detectors capable of counting single photon events at high speed and high sensitivity. In this work, we characterize the performance of the HNü 240 EMCCD from Nüvü Cameras, which was custom-built for GPI 2.0. Through our performance evaluation we found that the operating mode of the camera had to be changed from inverted-mode (IMO) to non-inverted mode (NIMO) in order to improve charge diffusion features found in the detector's images. Here, we characterize the EMCCD's noise contributors (readout noise, clock-induced charges, dark current) and linearity tests (EM gain, exposure time) before and after the switch to NIMO.
title GPI 2.0: Exploring The Impact of Different Readout Modes on the Wavefront Sensor's EMCCD
topic Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.01960