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gary
26-07-2024, 01:34 PM
The Southern Astrophysical Research (SOAR) telescope, situated atop Cerro Pachón, a mountain in northern Chile, is the first telescope to use a new, more sensitive type of charge-coupled device (CCD).



Story here :-
https://spectrum.ieee.org/charge-coupled-device

Paper at arXiv, "Astronomical Spectroscopy with Skipper CCDs: First Results from a Skipper CCD Focal Plane Prototype at SIFS" by Edgar Marrufo Villalpando et. al. :-
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.10756