Open main menu
Home
Random
Recent changes
Special pages
Community portal
Preferences
About Wikipedia
Disclaimers
Incubator escapee wiki
Search
User menu
Talk
Dark mode
Contributions
Create account
Log in
Editing
Advanced Camera for Surveys
(section)
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
===Solar Blind Channel (SBC)=== The Multi Anode Microchannel Array (MAMA) of the SBC is a low-background photon-counting device optimized for the ultraviolet in the wavelength range of 115β170 nm. It consists of a photocathode, a microchannel plate, and an anode array. Its spatial sampling is 0.034"x0.030" per pixel and its field-of-view is 34.6"Γ30.0".<ref>{{Cite web|title=4.4 The SBC MAMA - HST User Documentation|url=https://hst-docs.stsci.edu/acsihb/chapter-4-detector-performance/4-4-the-sbc-mama|access-date=2020-12-09|website=hst-docs.stsci.edu}}</ref> The ACS SBC is in fact a flight spare from the [[Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph]] (STIS).
Edit summary
(Briefly describe your changes)
By publishing changes, you agree to the
Terms of Use
, and you irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the
CC BY-SA 4.0 License
and the
GFDL
. You agree that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the Creative Commons license.
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)