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IO:I: A Near-Infrared Camera for the Liverpool Telescope by Barnsley, Robert; Jermak, Helen; Steele, Iain; Smith, Robert; Bates, Stuart; Mottram, Chris is a scholarly article available to read on EtoBox.

What is IO:I: A Near-Infrared Camera for the Liverpool Telescope about?

IO:I is a new instrument that has recently been commissioned for the Liverpool Telescope, extending current imaging capabilities beyond the optical and into the near infrared. Cost has been minimised by use of a previously decommissioned instrument's cryostat as the base for a prototype and retrofitting it with Teledyne's 1.7$\mu m$ cutoff Hawaii-2RG HgCdTe detector, SIDECAR ASIC controller and JADE2 interface card. In this paper, the mechanical, electronic and cryogenic aspects of the cryostat retrofitting process will be reviewed together with a description of the software/hardware setup. This is followed by a discussion of the results derived from characterisation tests, including measurements of read noise, conversion gain, full well depth and linearity. The paper closes with a brief overview of the autonomous data reduction process and the presentation of results from photometric testing conducted on on-sky, pipeline processed data.

Author

Barnsley, Robert; Jermak, Helen; Steele, Iain; Smith, Robert; Bates, Stuart; Mottram, Chris

Published

2015

Language

EN