The CCD and readout electronics for the OMC instrument on Integral
Culhane, J. L.; Smith, A.; Jordan, B.; Walton, D. M.; Thomas, P. D.; Dibbens, A. P.; Bradley, L. J.
United Kingdom, Ireland
Abstract
The Optical Monitoring Camera (OMC) on ESA's Integral gamma-ray astronomy satellite is devoted to optical wavelength observations simultaneously covering the same field-of-view as the gamma-ray and X-ray instruments. The OMC consists of a refracting telescope with a CCD as the imaging device in the focal plane. Here we describe the CCD and its associated readout electronics, in particular pointing out features of interest to users of the OMC instrument and its data.