Name: Image Sensors for Precision Astronomy (ISPA 2024)
Start: 2024-03-12T08:00:00-07:00
End: 2024-03-14T18:15:00-07:00
Location: SLAC

Image Sensors for Precision Astronomy (ISPA 2024)

from Tuesday 12 March 2024 (08:00) to Thursday 14 March 2024 (18:15)

Monday 11 March 2024
Tuesday 12 March 2024

08:00 Light Breakfast
Light Breakfast
08:00 - 08:30
Room: 48/1-112C/D - Redwood C/D
08:30 Keynotes
Keynotes
08:30 - 10:05
Room: 48/1-112C/D - Redwood C/D
Contributions

08:30 introductions - andres plazas malagon et al. - Andres Plazas Malagon (SLAC)

08:40 Welcome to SLAC & KIPAC - Aaron Roodman (SLAC)

08:45 Detector requirements: some challenges for the future - Luca Pasquini (ESO)

09:20 Detector Technologies for Future Astrophysics and Other Applications - Shouleh Nikzad (NASA-JPL, California Institute of Technology)
10:05 IR sensors
IR sensors
10:05 - 10:55
Room: 48/1-112C/D - Redwood C/D
Contributions

10:05 From ground characterization of the 16 H2RGs to the commissioning of the in-flight NISP Instrument of Euclid : lessons learn - Remi Barbier (CNRS - IN2P3)

10:30 Multi-Amplifier Sensing Charge-Coupled Device as a solution for a fast single quanta CCD - Guillermo Fernandez Moroni (Fermilab)
10:55 coffee break
coffee break
10:55 - 11:10
Room: 48/1-112C/D - Redwood C/D
11:10 CMOS, Skipper, MKIDs
CMOS, Skipper, MKIDs
11:10 - 12:25
Room: 48/1-112C/D - Redwood C/D
Contributions

11:10 Single electron Sensitive Readout (SiSeRO) devices: A novel X-ray detector technology for the future X-ray astronomical missions - Tanmoy Chattopadhyay (KIPAC, Stanford University)

11:35 Fast and sub-electron noise CCDs with the multi-amplifier sensing architecture for astronomy - Kenneth Lin (University of California, Berkeley) Julien Guy (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

12:00 Leonardo UK high performance shortwave APDs for astronomy - Andrew Bradford
12:25 Lunch
Lunch
12:25 - 14:00
Room: 48/1-112C/D - Redwood C/D
14:00
14:00 - 14:30
Room: 48/1-112C/D - Redwood C/D
Contributions

14:00 lightning talks - Andres Plazas Malagon (SLAC)
14:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
14:30 - 16:00
Room: 48/1-112C/D - Redwood C/D
14:30 - 16:00
Room: 48/1-112C/D - Redwood C/D
Contributions

14:30 Precision 'astrometry' in under sampled spectroscopic data for precise velocity measurement - Chris Tinney (University of New South Wales)

14:30 Focal plane figure - knowledge and control for Rubin Observatory's LSST Camera - Andrew Rasmussen (SLAC)

14:30 ‘Weather’ in LSST Camera: Characterizing Turbulence as seen in Flat Illuminated Images - John Banovetz (Brookhaven National Lab)

14:30 WFC3 Detector Characteristics and Mitigation Techniques - Benjamin Kuhn (Space Telescope Science Institute)

14:30 Read Noise Modelling Skipper CCDs - Tim Greffe (Caltech)

14:30 Bias Stability and Defect Analysis in LSSTCam - Sean MacBride (University of Michigan - Ann Arbor)

14:30 Direct Signal Injection Crosstalk in LSST Camera Readout Electronics - Daniel Polin (University of California, Davis)

14:30 CCDs in Living Color: Understanding the LSST Camera focal plane’s visual color via quantum efficiency measurements. - Aaron Roodman (SLAC)

14:30 The Dual-Sided CCD - Daniel Egana Ugrinovic (Perimeter Institute)

14:30 Measuring the Delayed Crosstalk - Shuang Liang (Stanford University)

14:30 Tree-rings in LSST Camera - Zhuoqi Zhang (Stanford University)

14:30 Instrument Signature Removal and Calibration Products for the Rubin LSST - Andres Plazas Malagon (SLAC)

14:30 Read Noise Biasing on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope - Katherine Laliotis (the Ohio State University)

14:30 Limiting Atmospheric Emission Lines With On-Detector Guide Windows - Theodore Grosson (University of Victoria)

14:30 Propagating Random Telegraph Noise in Las Cumbres Observatory’s CMOS data - Daniel Harbeck (Las Cumbres Observatory)

14:30 High-density and low-background Silicon packages for kilogram skipper-CCD instruments - Ana Martina Botti (FNAL)

14:30 A skipper-CCD light shield for X-ray detection in space - Ana Martina Botti (FNAL)
16:00
16:00 - 17:15
Room: 48/1-112C/D - Redwood C/D
Contributions

16:00 Teledyne’s High Performance Visible and Infrared Focal Plane Arrays for Precision Astronomy - James Beletic (Teledyne Digital Imaging)

16:25 STA Skipper and CCD Development Status - Gregory Bredthauer (Semiconductor Technology Associates, Inc.)

16:50 Imaging detector work across multiple astronomical projects (including InGaAs, soft X-ray CMOS/CCDs, and qCMOS detectors) - Jill Juneau (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
17:30 Reception
Reception
17:30 - 19:00
Room: 48/1-112C/D - Redwood C/D
Wednesday 13 March 2024

08:00 Light Breakfast
Light Breakfast
08:00 - 08:55
Room: 48/1-112C/D - Redwood C/D
08:55
08:55 - 09:45
Room: 48/1-112C/D - Redwood C/D
Contributions

08:55 Channel Filtering to Reduce 1/f Noise Structure in SPHEREx Data - Chi Nguyen (California Institute of Technology)

09:20 Mitigation of the Brighter-Fatter Effect in the LSST Camera - Alexander Broughton (University of California, Irvine)
09:45 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
09:45 - 10:25
Room: 48/1-112C/D - Redwood C/D
10:25
10:25 - 12:15
Room: 48/1-112C/D - Redwood C/D
Contributions

10:25 Spatial Frequency domain probes of the brighter-fatter effect - Dan Weatherill (University of Oxford)

10:50 On the influence of electrostatic barriers that would modify brighter-fatter corrections for PSF estimations - Andrew Rasmussen (SLAC)

11:25 FIREBall-2 delta-doped EMCCD for photon starving UV astronomy: modeling, tradeoffs and future upgrades - vincent picouet (Caltech)

11:50 Recent advances in UV and soft X-ray photon counting MCP detectors - Anton Tremsin (University of California at Berkeley)
12:15 Lunch
Lunch
12:15 - 13:35
Room: 48/1-112C/D - Redwood C/D
13:35 IR & CMOS detector effects
IR & CMOS detector effects
13:35 - 14:50
Room: 48/1-112C/D - Redwood C/D
Contributions

13:35 H4RG-15 detector features, performance statistics, and characterization data products for VLT-MOONS - Elizabeth George (ESO)

14:00 Image Persistence Flagging for SPHEREx - Candice Fazar (Rochester Institute of Technology)

14:25 Preliminary results from the SuperBIT balloon-borne telescope - Ajay Gill (MIT)
14:50 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
14:50 - 15:30
Room: 48/1-112C/D - Redwood C/D
15:30 CCD detector effects
CCD detector effects
15:30 - 16:35
Room: 48/1-112C/D - Redwood C/D
Contributions

15:30 Science application driven optimization of LSST-Cam CCD clocking - Tony Tyson (University of California, Davis)

15:45 LSST Teledyne e2v CCD Characterization Under Varying Operating Conditions - Adam Snyder (SLAC)

16:10 LSST Camera testing and optimization - Yousuke Utsumi (SLAC)
16:35 LSST Camera tour; group photo
LSST Camera tour; group photo
16:35 - 17:35
Room: 48/1-112C/D - Redwood C/D

18:00 Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner
18:00 - 19:30
Room: 48/1-112C/D - Redwood C/D
Thursday 14 March 2024

08:00 Light Breakfast
Light Breakfast
08:00 - 08:55
Room: 48/1-112C/D - Redwood C/D
08:55 Sensors for Nancy Grace Roman
Sensors for Nancy Grace Roman
08:55 - 10:10
Room: 48/1-112C/D - Redwood C/D
Contributions

08:55 Summary of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Flight Detector Performance - Greg Mosby (NASA GSFC)

09:20 H4RG detector analyses for the Roman Space Telescope and Prime Focus Spectrograph - Jahmour Givans (Flatiron Institute)

09:45 (discussion entry points for upcoming coffee break)
10:10 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:10 - 10:55
Room: 48/1-112C/D - Redwood C/D
10:55
10:55 - 12:15
Room: 48/1-112C/D - Redwood C/D
Contributions

10:55 Astronomical Spectroscopy with Skipper CCDs: A Skipper CCD Focal Plane Prototype at SIFS - Alex Drlica-Wagner (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory/University of Chicago) Edgar Marrufo (University of Chicago)

11:20 Partial charge collection and quantum efficiency of a back-illuminated skipper-CCD - Ana Martina Botti (FNAL)

11:45 Multi-Amplifier Sensing CCD (MAS-CCD) Detector Concept for the Habitable Worlds Observatory - Bernard Rauscher (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

12:10 closing words
12:15 Lunch (to go)
Lunch (to go)
12:15 - 12:55
Room: 48/1-112C/D - Redwood C/D