FAST CCD: Historical record 1994-2011

FAST CCD history from /data/fast/rawdata FITS headers:

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FAST0?

1994.0108: 

0006.SN1993J
First light, observers: Fabricant, Geary, Caldwell, Groner, Zajac
No indication of detector in headers
2688x512 pix, Loral not thinned (Fabricant et al. 1998, PASP 110, 79)

Through 1994.0717
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FAST1

1994.0903:

0002.unnamed
DETECTOR= 'thin_01 '           /DETECTOR IDENTIFIER
RAMPROG = serial parallel skip 99 repeat 160 add 2 end skip 93 repeat 16        
RAMPROG = add 2 end                                                             
2720x512 pix, thinned

Through 1998.0418 
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FAST2 

1998.0419:

0001.COMP.fits
DETECTOR= 'thin_01 '           /DETECTOR IDENTIFIER
RAMPROG0= 'serial parallel repeat 128 add 4 end repeat 8 add 4 end  '           
2720x512 pix, thinned

Through 2006.0619
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FAST3 

2006.0620:

0001.BIAS.fits
DETECTOR= 'FAST3             ' / DETECTOR ID                                    
CCDSERIA= 'STA520A SN4377    ' / CHIP ID                                        
2688x512 pix, thinned, no UV flooding

The first version arrived at FLWO on 14 October 2005, but it had problems
(see the hardware status page).
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