Summary of ISO Detector Workshop

The Infrared Space Observatory successfullycarried out a wide range of astronomical observations in thewavelength range 2.4 m to nearly 200 m. To coverthis extremely broad range, a variety of detector technologies wereused by the instruments teams. As such ISO also proved to bean important test bed for the operation of these detectors ina low-background space environment. Over the two year mission,all the detector types have proven to be quite stable, withonly the Si:As IBC showing any long term degradation.Significant effort has been expended to cope with thebehaviour of the detectors under the space conditions bothoperationally and in ground processing. The main undesirableeffect can be classified as either transient responseanomalies or radiation effects. Overall sensitivity of theISO detectors was generally worse than predicted fromground-based measurements due to combinations of these twoclasses of phenomena. Splinter meetings were held to exchangespecific strategies for dealing with glitches, radiation curing,and transient effects. Plans for future actions were initiated.