sCMOS Sensors Stand-Off

Arxiv.org paper "Evaluation of scientific CMOS sensors for sky survey applications" by Sergey Karpov, Armelle Bajat, Asen Christov, Michael Prouza, and Grigory Beskin from  Institute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, and cKazan Federal University, Kazan, Russia compares BAE-Fairchild Imaging sCMOS sensor with Gpixel's:

"Scientific CMOS image sensors are a modern alternative for a typical CCD detectors, as they offer both low read-out noise, large sensitive area, and high frame rates. All these makes them promising devices for a modern wide-field sky surveys. However, the peculiarities of CMOS technology have to be properly taken into account when analyzing the data. In order to characterize these, we performed an extensive laboratory testing of two Andor cameras based on sCMOS chips -- Andor Neo and Andor Marana. Here we report its results, especially on the temporal stability, linearity and image persistence."

"...we may safely conclude that Andor Marana sCMOS is indeed a very promising camera for a sky survey applications, especially requiring high temporal resolution, and exceeds Andor Neo in nearly all aspects of it."

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