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Observational Astronomy

Measurements

Counts, Energy, Flux

Magnitudes

Science Images

Generating Science Images

Sources

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  2. https://www.baader-planetarium.com/en/blog/gain-and-offset-darks-flats-and-bias-at-cooled-cmos-cameras/
  3. https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/astronomy/observatory/reduction_guide.pdf
  4. https://owd.tcnj.edu/~pfeiffer/AST261/AST261Chap11,Phot.pdf
  5. https://ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/special-interest/phys/particle-physics/quanz-group-dam/documents-old-s-and-p/Courses/vp-asl-astro/tortorelli_data_reduction_steps.pdf
  6. https://image-analysis.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
  7. https://www.cse.wustl.edu/~jain/cse567-11/ftp/imgsens/
  8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depletion_region
  9. https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Photon-Counting_CMOS_Sensors_Extend_Frontiers_in/a67740
  10. https://www.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/www_detector/ccdgroup/optheory/ccdoperation.html
  11. https://www.princetoninstruments.com/products/cosmos-family/cosmos/app-notes/advanced-cmos-detectors-for-astronomy
  12. https://starlink.eao.hawaii.edu/docs/sc5.htx/sc5se4.html#:~:text=The%20CCD%20is%20placed%20in,stored%20for%20later%20read%2Dout.
  13. https://physicsworld.com/a/advanced-cmos-detectors-enable-next-generation-astronomy/
  14. https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/686472/how-does-a-cmos-image-sensor-manage-to-read-and-record-all-the-pixel-values-any
  15. https://www.brown.edu/research/labs/mittleman/sites/brown.edu.research.labs.mittleman/files/uploads/lecture04.pdf