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What telescopes used 1000+ pixel Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (MKIDs) for multispectral, single photon counting (time + energy of photons)?
This excellent answer to What would “the next GAIA”-like instrument be like? Could it simply be a 3 to 5x scaled-up version of the same beautiful system? is worth a thorough read-through, but it and ...
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Which properties can we infer for cosmic ray particles hitting on an optical ccd?
It is very common that we meet cosmic ray particles in optical images recorded by CCDs.
You can see the "snowflakes" in the Hubble Space Telescope images below:
Generally we should try to ...
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