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ODI News Roundup: January 2012
A Partially Populated Focal Plane
The ODI project met a major milestone on December 16th when 14 Orthogonal Transfer Array (OTA) CCD detectors were mounted on ODI's focal plane by Mike Lesser and his team at the UA Imaging Technology Laboratory. This partially populated focal plane has a central 3 x 3 detector array covering a field of view of about 24 x 24 arc minutes, as well as additional devices that sample the outer parts of the one degree field of view.
ODI with this partially populated focal plane (dubbed pODI) is scheduled for deployment at the WIYN observatory in the second half of July 2012. After a technical verification phase and scientific commissioning WIYN aims to open pODI for shared risk observations. pODI will operate in the static and coherent image motion correction modes, and will feature four filters capable of using the entire field of view (SDSS g', r', i', and z' bands). For further questions regarding pODI, please contact Daniel Harbeck (harbeck at noao.edu) or Todd Boroson (boroson at noao.edu).
Dave Ouellette of ITL next to the ODI focal plane which is populated with 15 detectors (one is nonfunctional).
Previous Articles
ODI news Roundup: June 2010 June, 2010
ODI news Roundup: April 2010 April, 2010
ODI news Roundup: January 2010 January, 2010
ODI news Roundup: August 2009 August, 2009
ODI news Roundup: July 2009 July, 2009
ODI news Roundup: March 2009 March, 2009
Announcement of a meeting at the June 2009 AAS meeting March, 2009
The First CCD Controller Arrived in Tucson October 23, 2008
Instrument Support Package - A First Fit Check October 22, 2008
ODI Focal Plate Arrived October 17, 2008
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