Chapter 4:
Detector Performance

4.1 Overview

4.2 The CCDs

4.2.1 Detector Properties

4.2.2 CCD Spectral Response

4.2.3 Quantum Efficiency Hysteresis

4.2.4 CCD Long-Wavelength Fringing

4.2.5 Readout Format

4.2.6 Analog-To-Digital Conversion

4.2.7 Flat Fields

4.3 CCD Operations and Limitations

4.3.1 CCD Saturation: The CCD Full Well

4.3.2 CCD Shutter Effects on Exposure Times

4.3.3 Read Noise

4.3.4 Dark Current

4.3.5 Warm and hot pixels

4.3.6 Cosmic Rays

4.3.7 Charge Transfer Efficiency

4.3.8 UV Light and the HRC CCD

4.4 The SBC MAMA

4.4.1 MAMA Properties

4.4.2 SBC Spectral Response

4.4.3 Optical Performance

4.5 SBC Operations and Limitations

4.5.1 SBC Scheduling Policies

4.5.2 MAMA Overflow of the 16 Bit Buffer

4.5.3 MAMA Darks

4.5.4 SBC Signal-To-Noise Ratio Limitations

4.5.5 SBC Flatfield

4.5.6 SBC Nonlinearity

4.6 SBC Bright-Object Limits

4.6.1 Overview

4.6.2 Observational Limits