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Article Dans Une Revue Astronomy and Astrophysics - A&A Année : 2023

StarDICE I: sensor calibration bench and absolute photometric calibration of a Sony IMX411 sensor

StarDICE

Emmanuel Bertin
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Delphine Hardin
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Xiao Feng Wang
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The Hubble diagram of type-Ia supernovae (SNe-Ia) provides cosmological constraints on the nature of dark energy with an accuracy limited by the flux calibration of currently available spectrophotometric standards. The StarDICE experiment aims at establishing a 5-stage metrology chain from NIST photodiodes to stars, with a targeted accuracy of \SI1{mmag} in $griz$ colors. We present the first two stages, resulting in the calibration transfer from NIST photodiodes to a demonstration \SI{150}{Mpixel} CMOS sensor (Sony IMX411ALR as implemented in the QHY411M camera by QHYCCD). As a side-product, we provide full characterization of this camera. A fully automated spectrophotometric bench is built to perform the calibration transfer. The sensor readout electronics is studied using thousands of flat-field images from which we derive stability, high resolution photon transfer curves and estimates of the individual pixel gain. The sensor quantum efficiency is then measured relative to a NIST-calibrated photodiode. Flat-field scans at 16 different wavelengths are used to build maps of the sensor response. We demonstrate statistical uncertainty on quantum efficiency below \SI{0.001}{e^-/γ} between \SI{387}{nm} and \SI{950}{nm}. Systematic uncertainties in the bench optics are controlled at the level of \SI{1e-3}{e^-/γ}. Uncertainty in the overall normalization of the QE curve is 1%. Regarding the camera we demonstrate stability in steady state conditions at the level of \SI{32.5}{ppm}. Homogeneity in the response is below \SI1{\percent} RMS across the entire sensor area. Quantum efficiency stays above \SI{50}{\percent} in most of the visible range, peaking well above \SI{80}{\percent} between \SI{440}{nm} and \SI{570}{nm}. Differential non-linearities at the level of \SI1{\percent} are detected. A simple 2-parameter model is proposed to mitigate the effect.
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hal-03846686 , version 1 (13-10-2023)

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Marc Betoule, Sarah Antier, Emmanuel Bertin, Pierre Éric Blanc, Sébastien Bongard, et al.. StarDICE I: sensor calibration bench and absolute photometric calibration of a Sony IMX411 sensor. Astronomy and Astrophysics - A&A, 2023, 670, pp.A119. ⟨10.1051/0004-6361/202244973⟩. ⟨hal-03846686⟩
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