(Ebook) Handbook of CCD Astronomy Cambridge Observing Handbooks for Research Astronomers 1st edition by Steve Howell 1139931250 9781139931250

(Ebook) Handbook of CCD Astronomy Cambridge Observing Handbooks for Research Astronomers 1st edition by Steve Howell 1139931250 9781139931250

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ISBN-10 :  1139931250 

ISBN-13 :  9781139931250

Author: Steve B. Howell 

Charge-Coupled Devices (CCDs) are the state-of-the-art detector in many fields of observational science. Updated to include all of the latest developments in CCDs, this second edition of the Handbook of CCD Astronomy is a concise and accessible reference on all practical aspects of using CCDs. Starting with their electronic workings, it discusses their basic characteristics and then gives methods and examples of how to determine these values. While the book focuses on the use of CCDs in professional observational astronomy, advanced amateur astronomers, and researchers in physics, chemistry, medical imaging, and remote sensing will also find it very valuable. Tables of useful and hard-to-find data, key practical equations, and new exercises round off the book and ensure that it provides an ideal introduction to the practical use of CCDs for graduate students, and a handy reference for more experienced users.

Handbook of CCD Astronomy (Cambridge Observing Handbooks for Research Astronomers) 1st Table of contents:

1. Introduction
1.1 Nomenclature
1.2 Why use CCDs?
1.3 Exercises
2. CCD manufacturing and operation
2.1 CCD operation
2.2 CCD types
2.3 CCD coatings
2.4 Analog-to-digital converters
2.5 Exercises
3. Characterization of charge-coupled devices
3.1 Quantum efficiency
3.2 Charge diffusion
3.3 Charge transfer efficiency
3.4 Readout noise
3.5 Dark current
3.6 CCD pixel size, pixel binning, full well capacity, and windowing
3.7 Overscan and bias
3.8 CCD gain and dynamic range
3.9 Summary
3.10 Exercises
4. CCD imaging
4.1 Image or plate scale
4.2 Flat fielding
4.3 Calculation of read noise and gain
4.4 Signal-to-noise ratio
4.5 Basic CCD data reduction
4.6 CCD imaging
4.7 Exercises
5. Photometry and astrometry
5.1 Stellar photometry from digital images
5.2 Two-dimensional profile fitting
5.3 Difference image photometry
5.4 Aperture photometry
5.5 Absolute versus differential photometry
5.6 High speed photometry
5.7 PSF shaped photometry
5.8 Astrometry
5.9 Pixel sampling
5.10 Exercises
6. Spectroscopy with CCDs
6.1 Review of spectrographs
6.2 CCD spectrographs
6.3 CCD spectroscopy
6.4 Signal-to-noise calculations for spectroscopy
6.5 Data reduction for CCD spectroscopy
6.6 Extended object spectroscopy
6.7 Slitless spectroscopy
6.8 Exercises
7. CCDs used in space and at short wavelengths
7.1 CCDs in space
7.2 Radiation damage in CCDs
7.3 CCDs in the UV and EUV (300–3000 Å) spectral range
7.4 CCDs in the X-ray (<500 Å) spectral range
7.5 Exercises

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