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A CCD That Can Stand up to Cosmic Rays

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BERKELEY, Calif., July 24 -- A single instrument aboard SNAP, the proposed SuperNova/Acceleration Probe, will make it unique among satellites: Its billion-pixel astronomical camera, the GigaCAM. Built from an array of revolutionary Berkeley Lab CCDs developed by Stephen Holland and his colleagues in the Lab's Engineering and Physics Divisions, the GigaCAM will be the largest and most sensitive astronomical CCD imager ever constructed. Standard astronomical CCDs are fragile affairs, and their ability to obtain high-quality images degrades quickly in the hostile radiation environment of space...Read full article

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