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The new Gaia CCD test facilities at e2v

The new Gaia Test area at e2v is now fully commissioned. This new facility, built specifically for the testing of CCDs for Gaia, has been furnished with 5 test cameras. Each camera has a pump station for the pumping and cooling of 13 interchangeable cryostats. Each cryostat houses one Gaia CCD (CCD 91) and is installed in the test camera once the device is fully cooled, making maximum use of testing time and increasing the overall throughput of CCDs.

The image above shows four views of the clean room. Larger versions of the images are available here (clockwise from top-left): image 1; image 2; image 3; image 4.

Photographs courtesy of Peter Gillespie and e2v.

[Published 05/04/2007]

Picture of the Week archive
2010
01/29: Complete Gaia Torus
2009
12/17: Soyuz launch pad
11/27: M2 mirror
10/23: BAM OMA mirror
09/30: SVN reached the 100000 commit
06/19: Plasma Jet Machining on mirrors
06/03: Gaia Torus Segments
05/15: Variability tree
04/21: Siblings of the Sun
03/27: CTI Effects Models for Gaia
03/11: Global astrometric solution
02/24: Combining Geneva with Hipparcos
02/10: BAM OMA mirror type A
01/27: Astrophysical parameter estimation with Ilium
01/08: Bulge with Gaia
2008
12/05: CCD Support Structure
10/21: RVS Fery Prism Breadboard
10/07: Discrete Source Classifier
09/23: Standard stars for RVS
09/09: MareNostrum
07/25: Wavefront Sensor
07/09: Sky-like mask
06/25: Data Compression Study
06/11: Video Processing Unit
05/22: New CCD test bench
04/25: WMAP and Gaia
03/10: New AGIS results
02/18: M5 mirror
02/04: PLM torus
01/21: Solar Cycle 24
2007
12/17: DPAC cycles
11/12: Thermal Vacuum Facility for FPA
07/02: Gaia Payload
06/11: Launch & Operations
04/05: New e2v test facility
02/26: The Ring Solution verified
2006
11/13: AGIS test results
09/25: Gaia Focal Plane
08/02: GUMS release
04/24: RP spectra
03/27: Gaia telescopes
02/27: First data from RAVE
02/06: L3CCD life tests
01/23: AGIS result
2005
12/19: GAREX
11/14: Variable stars
10/24: Ice Age Epoch
10/03: Asteroid orbits, J2, b
09/05: Milky Way bar
08/22: Detecting MBOs & NEOs
08/08: RGO 1995
07/25: Galaxy remnants
06/27: Cebreros
06/13: EODM testing
05/30: Bulge visibility
05/09: First Look: ODIS
04/25: Radiation testing
04/04: CCD Packaging
03/21: Gaia imaging
03/07: Working Groups
02/21: Gaia logo
02/14: MBP devices
01/31: Proton irradiation
01/24: Asteroids
01/17: MBP filters
01/10: BBP filters
2004
12/20: Astro CCD tests
12/06: FPA baseplate
11/22: Interconnection module
11/08: PE Modules
10/25: Scanning law II
10/11: Reference frame
09/20: Testing L3CCDs
08/30: CCD metrology
08/23: Gaia Symposium
06/28: PoW - first year
06/21: CCD evaluation
06/14: Artistic spacecraft
06/07: Star tracking
05/31: Spectralib
05/24: Digital Universe
05/17: Gaia M1 mirror
05/10: v_t CMD
04/26: Gaia parameter data base
04/19: RVS optics design
04/12: Supercomputer
04/05: CCD depletion
03/29: Giant planets
03/22: KBO's
03/01: GS visibility
02/16: Halo accretion
02/09: Filter Design
01/19: Sunshield
01/12: Lund Map
01/05: The ICRF
2003
12/15: Nice meeting
12/08: Scanning law
11/24: Microlensing
11/17: Planet discovery
11/10: Optics test bench
11/03: RVS calibration
10/27: ESTEC
10/20: Baade's window
10/13: Quasars
09/29: First Gaia CCDs
09/22: Cannibal galaxy
09/15: All-sky transits
09/08: Monte Rosa II
09/01: EADS-Astrium
08/25: HD70642
08/18: Catalogues
08/11: Hipparcos
08/04: ESOC
07/28: Light bending
07/21: NEO 1994 XM1
07/14: Monte Rosa I
07/07: SiC facilities
06/30: CCD centroiding
06/23: Soyuz launchers
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