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Table 2

Interesting parameters for the VIS CCDs and Focal Plane Array.

Optical parameters
Focal length 24.87 m
Image scale 1 arcsec = 120.57 µm
CCD
Number of rows (height) 4132
Number of columns (width) 4096
Number of pixels 16 924 672
Array
Number of rows 6
Number of columns 6
Number of CCDs 36
Number of pixels 609 288 192
CCD spacing 0.5 mm
Fill factor 0.861

Height Width Area

CCD
Pixel dimensions (µm) 12.0 12.0
(arcsec) 0.100 0.100
Active area dimensions (mm) 49.6 49.2
(arcmin or arcmin2) 6.85 6.79 46.6
Physical dimension Array (mm) 56.8 50.3
Active area dimensions (mm) 336.6 302.7
(deg or deg2) 0.775 0.697 0.540
Physical dimensions (mm) 343.3 304.3

Notes. The active area dimensions refer to the enclosing rectangle about the active area of the array of CCDs, i.e., including the CCD spacing.

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