New Developments in Array Technology and Applications: Proceedings of the 167th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, Held in the Hague, the Netherlands, August 23-27, 1994Section I - Review Papers.- Array Detectors and Instruments for the ESO VLT.- Design and Fabrication of Large CCDs for the Keck Observatory Deimos Spectrograph.- Scientific CCD Prospects for 1994 and Beyond.- New Developments in CCD Technology for the UV-EUV Spectral Range.- CCD Controllers.- CCDs in Active Acquisition Systems.- CCD Development Activities at ESO.- Infrared Array Detectors: Performance and Prospects.- The Lick Observatory Two Micron Camera.- Infrared Arrays at the European Southern Observatory.- The Impact of Infrared Array Technology on Astronomy.- Monolithic Si Bolometer Arrays: Detectors for far Infrared and Submillimeter Detection.- Observational Concerns and Techniques for High-Background Mid-Infrared (5-20 Micron) Array Imaging.- An Infrared Camera Based on a Large PtSi Array.- PtSi IR Array in Mosaic Configuration.- CCD Photometry - Present and Future.- CCD Photometry: Some Basic Concerns.- Choosing Filters to Make CCD Photometry Transformable to Other Detectors.- Automated CCD Scanning for near Earth Asteroids.- CCD Time Series Photometry of Astronomical Sources.- High Precision Stellar Photometry With CCDs. I..- High Precision Stellar Photometry With CCDs. II..- Precision Differential CCD Photometry.- Array Polarimetry and Optical-Differencing Photometry.- Cosmic Ray Events and Natural Radioactivity in CCD Cryostats.- Mocam: A 4k X 4k CCD Mosaic for the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Prime Focus.- Echelle Spectroscopy with a CCD at LOW Signal-to-Noise Ratio.- Nicmos3 Detector for Spectroscopy.- Spectral Classification with Array Detectors.- Spectroscopic Observations of Solar System Objects: Pushing the Limits.- "Va-et-Vent" ("Back-and-Forth") CCD Spectroscopy: A New Way to Increase the Limiting Magnitude of Very Large Telescopes.- Some Problems of Wide-Field Astrometry with a Short-Focus CCD Astrograph.- A Dual CCD Mosaic Camera System Searching for Massive Compact Halo Objects (MACHOs).- Multi-Fiber Spectroscopy with Wide-Field Telescopes.- Performance of a 2048 x 2048 Pixel Three-Side-Buttable CCD Designed for Large Focal Planes in Astronomy.- CCD Mosaic Development for Large Optical Telescopes.- Highlights of IAU Symposium No. 167.- Section II - Poster Papers.- The Transputer Based CCD Controller at ESO.- Detector Controllers for the Galileo Telescope: A Progress Report.- The Rutherford-SAAO CCD Controllers and Their Applications.- CCD Imagers with Enhanced UV Sensitivity for Industrial and Scientific Applications.- The Large-Field Bright-Star High-Precision CCD Photometer of BAO.- Effects of Shutter Timing on CCD Photometry.- Astronomical Applications of CCDs in Hungary: The First Steps and Future Plans.- A Simple CCD-System for Secondary Alignment of the Spectrum-UV Space Telescope.- The Modernization of the Pulkovo Photographic (Photoelectric) Vertical Circle by a CCD Array.- A New Ocular Micrometer for the Mahis.- PbS and CCD Array Autocollimation Micrometers for the Infrared Meridian Circle.- The Noao CCD Controller - Arcon.- Intensified Electron-Bombarded CCD Images for Industrial and Scientific Applications.- The CCDs at ESO: A Systematic Testing Program.- Development of a 7000 x 4000 Pixel Mosaic CCD Camera.- The Feasibility of a CCD for an Astrometric Refractor.- Stellar Positions From CCD Images.- On the Accuracy of CCD and Photographic Observations of Asteroids and Their Current Orbit Determinations.- On the Problem of Standard Fields for CCD Astrometry.- Combined Visual and Near-IR Digital Photometry: The Very Young Cluster Westerlund 2.- A Dual CCD Mosaic Camera System Searching for Massive-Compact Halo Objects (MACHOs).- JHK Photometry of Extragalactic Sources Using an Infrared Array Camera.- Precision CCD Photometry of the Horizontal Branch.- CCD Photometry of the M 67 Cluster in the Vilnius Photometric System.- Estimation of the Errors Involved in the Intensity Measurement of Low S/N Ratio Emission Lines.- EEV and Electron Corp. Virtual Phase CCDs in the Near IR Region, He ? 10830 |
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INTRODUCTION | 3 |
ARRAY DETECTORS AND INSTRUMENTS FOR THE ESO | 9 |
DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF LARGE CCDs FOR THE KECK | 19 |
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