LARGE MONOLITHIC IMAGER (LMI)
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  Instrument Overview
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    The visible-wavelength, direct-imaging CCD for the Lowell
    Discovery Telescope (LDT) is called the Large Monolithic 
    Imager (LMI). LMI is a deep depletion, monolithic CCD
    with 6144 x 6160 pixels. The instrument was funded by the 
    National Science Foundation through AST-1005313. The 
    camera is mounted in the direct through-put port on the 
    LDT instrument cube.

  Detector                                                         
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    LMI is a 6k x 6k CCD that images a 12.3 arc minute 
    square field of view. The device is back illuminated
    and has 15-micron pixels. The unbinned detector
    provides a pixel scale of 0.12 arcsec/pixel. The chip
    is commonly binned at 2x2 (0.24 arcsec/pixel) or 3x3 
    (0.36 arcsec/pixel). The chip is linear up to 65k ADU
    at the default gain of 2.89 e-/ADU. Read noise is 2.1
    ADU per pixel and the readout time is 73 seconds for
    unbinned images, 24 seconds for 2x2 binning, and 10 sec
    for 3x3 binning. The CCD quantum efficiency is 80% from
    400-700 nm, and dropping to ~50% at 350 and 900 nm.

  Filters                                                         
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    Dual filter wheels in the LDT instrument cube provide
    18 filter slots. A wide range of facility filters are
    available including Johnson-Cousins UBVRI, SDSS 
    u'g'r'i'z', a variety of comet filters (OH, NH, CN, C3
    CO+, C2, H2O), and a broad VR filter that provides >80% 
    transmission from 500-700 nm.