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Proceedings Article | 11 June 2021 Open Access

WSO-UV mission WUVS instrument FUV-UV CCD detectors qualification campaign main results

Andrey Shugarov, Mikhail Sachkov, Graham Bruce, Mark Robbins, Andrew Walker, Nick Waltham, Matthew Clapp, Mike Salter, Gayatri Patel, Sergey Kuzin, Eugene Vishnyakov, Alexey Kirichenko, Andrey Pertsov, Denis Ivlyushkin, Pavel Zavertkin, Anton Nikolenko

Proceedings Volume 11852, 118525D (2021) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2599948

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World Space Observatory Ultraviolet (WSO-UV) is a major Russian-led international collaboration to develop a large Space-borne 1.7 m Ritchey-Chrétien telescope and instrumentation to study the Universe in the ultraviolet wavelengths. The WSO-UV WUVS spectrograph consists of three channels: two high resolution channels (R=50000) with spectral ranges of 115-176 nm and 174-310 nm, and a low resolution (R=1000) channel with a spectral range of 115-305 nm. Each of the three channels has an almost identical custom detector consisting of a CCD inside a vacuum Enclosure, and drive electronics with associated cables. The main challenges of the WUVS detectors are to achieve high quantum efficiency in the FUV-NUV range, to provide low readout noise (≤3 e- at 50 kHz) and low dark current (≤ 12 e- /pixel/hour), to operate with integral exposures of up to 10 hours, and to provide good photometric accuracy. Teledyne e2v has designed three variants of a custom CCD272-64 sensor with different UV AR coatings, optimised for each WUVS channel. The custom vacuum Enclosure, also designed by Teledyne e2v, prevents contamination and maintains the CCD at the operating temperature of -100oC, while the temperature of the WUVS optical bench is +20oC. STFC RAL Space has developed the Camera Electronics Box (CEB) which houses the CCD drive electronics. Digital correlated double sampling technology provides extremely low readout noise and also enables flexibility to optimise readout noise against pixel frequency for a number of normal and binned pixel readout modes. This paper presents the general trade-offs of the WUVS detector design, methods for extending the service life of the CCD sensors working with low signals in a Space radiation environment, and a summary of the measured and calculated key parameters of the WUVS detectors.

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