Image Sensors for Precision Astronomy (ISPA)

US/Pacific
Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bldg. 17, Hameetman Auditorium (California Institute of Technology)

Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bldg. 17, Hameetman Auditorium

California Institute of Technology

Description

The 4th workshop on Image Sensors for Precision Astronomy (ISPA) convenes astronomers and detector experts to address the challenges of making state-of-the-art measurements with imperfect detectors. Attendees will assess the impact of detector systematics on science goals and discuss strategies for characterization, calibration, and mitigation.

The scope of ISPA includes detector issues in any sensor type which affect applications such as photometry, astrometry, spectroscopy, coronagraphy, and shape measurement. ISPA was previously called PACCD - Precision Astronomy with fully depleted CCDs.

For remote connection please use:

Zoom  https://stanford.zoom.us/j/355334733 (see zoom introduction)

US phone numbers: +1 415 762 9988; +1 646 568 7788; list for other countries; meeting ID: 355334733

Please email suggestions of any kind to Andrei Nomerotski.

Event ID: ISPA2018

Andrei Nomerotski (support)
  • Monday, 3 December
    • 08:00 08:45
      Light Breakfast 45m Cahill foyer

      Cahill foyer

      Pick up your badge. Claim a dinner reservation. Put up your poster or give your presentation to Pavan Bilgi who will upload it for you.

    • 08:45 09:00
      Welcome 15m Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bldg. 17, Hameetman Auditorium

      Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bldg. 17, Hameetman Auditorium

      California Institute of Technology

      Speaker: Jonas Zmuidzinas (Director, Caltech Optical Observatories)
    • 09:00 09:30
      Introductory talk 30m Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bldg. 17, Hameetman Auditorium

      Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bldg. 17, Hameetman Auditorium

      California Institute of Technology

      Speaker: Pierre Antilogus (LPNHE Paris)
    • 09:30 09:55
      How well do we understand NIR sensors? 25m Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bldg. 17, Hameetman Auditorium

      Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bldg. 17, Hameetman Auditorium

      California Institute of Technology

      A review of how well we understand NIR detectors, directed at defining where the edges of our understanding lie. The goal is to promote discussion of the way forward for precision astronomy using these complicated devices.

      Speaker: Roger Smith (Caltech)
    • 09:55 10:20
      Characterization of a 15 μm Cutoff HgCdTe Detector Array for Astronomy 25m Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bldg. 17, Hameetman Auditorium

      Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bldg. 17, Hameetman Auditorium

      California Institute of Technology

      Speaker: Mario Cabrera (Rochester)
    • 10:20 11:00
      Coffee Break 40m Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bldg. 17, Hameetman Auditorium

      Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bldg. 17, Hameetman Auditorium

      California Institute of Technology

    • 11:00 11:25
      Linearity calibration 25m Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bldg. 17, Hameetman Auditorium

      Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bldg. 17, Hameetman Auditorium

      California Institute of Technology

      Speaker: Bernard Rauscher (Goddard Space Flight Center)
    • 11:25 11:50
      Calibrating WFIRST 25m Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bldg. 17, Hameetman Auditorium

      Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bldg. 17, Hameetman Auditorium

      California Institute of Technology

      Speaker: Susana Deustua (STSci)
    • 11:50 12:15
      Near Infrared Detectors and Precision Radial Velocity Measurements 25m Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bldg. 17, Hameetman Auditorium

      Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bldg. 17, Hameetman Auditorium

      California Institute of Technology

      Speaker: Gautam Vasisht (JPL)
    • 12:15 14:00
      Lunch on Cahill Patio 1h 45m Head South towards sports field

      Head South towards sports field

    • 14:00 14:25
      Brighter-Fatter, crosshatch in NIR 25m Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bldg. 17, Hameetman Auditorium

      Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bldg. 17, Hameetman Auditorium

      California Institute of Technology

      Speaker: Eric Huff (JPL)
    • 14:25 14:50
      The Brighter Fatter Effect in H4RG-10 Detectors 25m Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bldg. 17, Hameetman Auditorium

      Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bldg. 17, Hameetman Auditorium

      California Institute of Technology

      Speaker: Ami Choi (OSU)
    • 14:50 15:15
      Interpixel Capacitive Coupling in Hybridized Arrays 25m Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bldg. 17, Hameetman Auditorium

      Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bldg. 17, Hameetman Auditorium

      California Institute of Technology

      Speaker: Kevan Donlon (RIT)
    • 15:15 15:25
      Group Photo 10m Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bldg. 17, Hameetman Auditorium

      Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bldg. 17, Hameetman Auditorium

      California Institute of Technology

    • 15:25 16:00
      Coffee break 35m Cahill Foyer

      Cahill Foyer

    • 16:00 16:25
      How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Cold: Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors for Optical and Near-IR Astronomy 25m Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bldg. 17, Hameetman Auditorium

      Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bldg. 17, Hameetman Auditorium

      California Institute of Technology

      Speaker: Prof. Ben Mazin (UCSB)
    • 16:25 16:50
      Moving Forward with SAPHIRA 25m Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bldg. 17, Hameetman Auditorium

      Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bldg. 17, Hameetman Auditorium

      California Institute of Technology

      Speaker: Dani Atkinson (Goddard)
    • 16:50 17:20
      1 min poster talks 30m Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bldg. 17, Hameetman Auditorium

      Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bldg. 17, Hameetman Auditorium

      California Institute of Technology

    • 17:20 18:20
      Poster Session and reception 1h Cahill foyer

      Cahill foyer

      Lively discussion with drinks and nibbles in Cahill foyer. Posters will be just outside.

      • Tree rings in LSST production sensors: their dependence on radius, wavelength, and back bias voltage 20m
        Speakers: Hye Yun Park (Stony Brook Unversity, Broookhave National Laboratory), Andrei Nomerotski, Dmitri Tsybychev
      • Correcting crosshatch pattern in H2RG for high precision near-infrared RV in HPF 20m
        Speakers: Joe Ninan (Pennsylvania State Unviersity), The HPF Team
      • Recent STA Technology Developments 20m
        Speakers: Gregory Bredthauer (Semiconductor Technology Associates, Inc.), Joseph Tufts, Kasey Boggs
      • Next-to-leading-order terms for the brighter/fatter effect in thick CCDs: Are perturbations linear over 3 orders of magnitude? 20m
        Speaker: Andy Rasmussen (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
      • Persistance suppresion by resetting while idling 20m
        Speakers: Tim Greffe (Caltech), Roger Smith (Caltech)
      • Precision Radial Velocity Measurements with an STA 1600 Detector from EXPRES 20m
        Speakers: Lily Zhao (Yale University), Debra Fischer, Colby Jurgenson, Dave Sawyer, Tyler McCracken, Andrew Szymkowiak, John Brewer, Ryan Blackman, Ryan Petersburg, Allen Davis, Joel Ong
      • The bias shift in LSST sensors 20m
        Speaker: Yousuke Utsumi (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Stanford University)
      • Establishing a Laboratory for Optical Sensor Testing at FZU 20m
        Speaker: Asen Christov (Institute of Physics, CAS Prague)
      • Biased Moments of Subpixel Sources 20m
        Speaker: Andrew Bradshaw (University of California at Davis)
      • The Detector System for the NEID Doppler Spectrometer 20m
        Speakers: Cullen Blake (University of Pennsylvania), Dan Li (NOAO), Joseph Tufts (STA, Inc.)
      • CCD Characterization and Modeling at UC Davis 20m
        Speakers: Craig Lage, Andrew Bradshaw, Tyson Tony (University of California at Davis), Kirk Gilmore (SLAC)
      • Direct measurement of Kepler’s intra-pixel response function 20m
        Speakers: Dmitry Vorobiev (Rochester Institute of Technology), Zoran Ninkov, Lexi Irwin, Kevan Donlon
      • Strap Effects in the TESS CCDs 20m
        Speakers: Joel Villasenor, Sormeh Yazdi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
      • Update on the NASA Goddard Astrophysics Division IR Detector Testbed 20m
        Speakers: Gregory Mosby (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), Bernie Rauscher, Dani Atkinson, Alexander Kutyrev
    • 18:50 19:00
      map of local restaurants 10m Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bldg. 17, Hameetman Auditorium

      Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bldg. 17, Hameetman Auditorium

      California Institute of Technology

    • 19:00 22:00
      Dinner at local restaurants 3h Restaurants in Old Town

      Restaurants in Old Town

      See map attached to agenda introduction.

      This not covered by registration fee, but by paying directly you get to choose from the entire menu and will get a better meal. We have made reservations at the following restaurants. Please nominate which you prefer before lunch time on Monday so we can make sure you have a place.
      www.cafesantorini.com (Mediteranean) 5 tables for 6 -- 64 W Union St, Pasadena, CA 91103
      www.ilfornaio.com (Italian) 3 tables for 8 -- 24 W Union St, Pasadena, CA 91103
      https://www.mipiace.com (Italian) 1 table for 12 -- 25 E Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91105

  • Tuesday, 4 December
    • 08:00 09:00
      Light Breakfast 1h Cahill Foyer

      Cahill Foyer

    • 09:00 09:25
      Uniformity and Stability of the LSST Focal Plane 25m Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bldg. 17, Hameetman Auditorium

      Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bldg. 17, Hameetman Auditorium

      California Institute of Technology

      Speaker: Paul O'CONNOR (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
    • 09:25 09:50
      Unexpected features of bloomed images in deep depletion TESS CCDs 25m Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bldg. 17, Hameetman Auditorium

      Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bldg. 17, Hameetman Auditorium

      California Institute of Technology

      Speaker: Gregory Prigozhin (MIT)
    • 09:50 10:15
      Detector Systems Engineering for Extremely Large Instruments 25m Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bldg. 17, Hameetman Auditorium

      Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bldg. 17, Hameetman Auditorium

      California Institute of Technology

      Speaker: Elizabeth George (ESO)
    • 10:15 11:00
      Coffee Break 45m Cahill Foyer

      Cahill Foyer

    • 11:00 11:25
      Shape of the Photon Tranfer Curve of CCDs 25m Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bldg. 17, Hameetman Auditorium

      Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bldg. 17, Hameetman Auditorium

      California Institute of Technology

      Speaker: Pierre Astier (LPNHE, Paris)
    • 11:25 11:50
      Automatic selection of Correlated Double Sampling timing parameters for optimal noise and linearity 25m Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bldg. 17, Hameetman Auditorium

      Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bldg. 17, Hameetman Auditorium

      California Institute of Technology

      Speaker: Daniel Weatherill (Oxford University)
    • 12:15 12:20
    • 12:20 13:50
      Athenaeum Buffet 1h 30m Athenaeum Al Fresco

      Athenaeum Al Fresco

      Outdoors if weather is nice or under clear sided tent if weather requires.

      Cross at the lights, walk through the arches, turn right at the refection pond to head East past the tortoise pond, under the Lemon Scented Gums (tall Eucaltyptus), down Olive walk, past the cannon. Up a few steps to the left just before entering the Ath.

    • 13:50 14:15
      Mitigating CTI from CCD bulk traps; Pavan Bilgi (Caltech) 25m Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bldg. 17, Hameetman Auditorium

      Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bldg. 17, Hameetman Auditorium

      California Institute of Technology

      Speaker: Pavan Bilgi (Caltech)
    • 14:15 14:40
      Investigation of Deferred Charge Effects in LSST CCD Sensors 25m Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bldg. 17, Hameetman Auditorium

      Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bldg. 17, Hameetman Auditorium

      California Institute of Technology

      Speaker: Snyder Adam (SLAC)
    • 14:40 15:05
      Advances in Charge-Coupled Devices at MIT Lincoln Laboratory 25m Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bldg. 17, Hameetman Auditorium

      Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bldg. 17, Hameetman Auditorium

      California Institute of Technology

      Speaker: Chris Leitz (MIT / Lincoln Labs)
    • 15:05 15:30
      Impact of Detector Imperfections on Precision Radial Velocity Exoplanet Searches 25m Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bldg. 17, Hameetman Auditorium

      Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bldg. 17, Hameetman Auditorium

      California Institute of Technology

      Speaker: Roy Arpita (Caltech)
    • 15:30 16:00
      Coffee Break 30m Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bldg. 17, Hameetman Auditorium

      Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bldg. 17, Hameetman Auditorium

      California Institute of Technology

    • 16:00 16:25
      EMCCDs for astrophysical use: performance, drawbacks, and lessons learned 25m Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bldg. 17, Hameetman Auditorium

      Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bldg. 17, Hameetman Auditorium

      California Institute of Technology

      Speaker: Erika Hamden (University of Arizona)
    • 16:25 16:50
      Zero noise with skipper-CCD 25m Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bldg. 17, Hameetman Auditorium

      Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bldg. 17, Hameetman Auditorium

      California Institute of Technology

      Speaker: juan estrada (fermilab)
    • 16:50 17:20
      Summary 30m Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bldg. 17, Hameetman Auditorium

      Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bldg. 17, Hameetman Auditorium

      California Institute of Technology

      Speaker: Michael Seiffert (JPL)
    • 17:20 17:30
      Closeout 10m Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bldg. 17, Hameetman Auditorium

      Cahill Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bldg. 17, Hameetman Auditorium

      California Institute of Technology

    • 18:30 21:30
      Dinner at local restaurants 3h TBD

      TBD

      Arrangements TBD