Summary of ISO detector workshop

The Infrared Space Observatory successfully carried out a wide range of ast ronomical observations in the wavelength range 2.4 mu m to nearly 200 mu m To cover this extremely broad range, a variety of detector technologies wer e used by the instruments teams. As such ISO also proved to be an important test bed for the operation of these detectors in a low-background space en vironment. Over the two year mission, all the detector types have proven to be quite stable, with only the Si:As IBC showing any long term degradation . Significant effort has been expended to cope with the behaviour of the de tectors under the space conditions both operationally and in ground process ing. The main undesirable effect can be classified as either transient resp onse anomalies or radiation effects. Overall sensitivity of the ISO detecto rs was generally worse than predicted from groundbased measurements due to combinations of these two classes of phenomena. Splinter meetings were held to exchange specific strategies for dealing with glitches, radiation curin g, and transient effects. Plans for future actions were initiated.