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Ahmed, S.; Hall, D. J.; Skottfelt, J. M.; Dryer, B.; Holland, A.; Crowley, C. and Hernandez, J. (2022). Modelling the impact of radiation damage effects in in-flight and on-ground irradiated Gaia CCDs. Journal of Instrumentation, 17(08), article no. C08010.

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Ahmed, Saad; Hall, David; Crowley, Cian; Skottfelt, Jesper; Dryer, Benjamin; Seabroke, George; Hernandez, Jose and Holland, Andrew (2022). Understanding the evolution of radiation damage on the Gaia CCDs after 72 months at L2. Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, 8(1), article no. 016003.

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Ahmed, Saad; Warren, Stephen and Laithwaite, Richard (2021). The local vertical density distribution of ultracool dwarfs M7 to L2.5 and their luminosity function. The Open Journal of Astrophysics, 4

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Ahmed, S. and Warren, S. J. (2019). A homogeneous sample of 34 000 M7−M9.5 dwarfs brighter than J = 17.5 with accurate spectral types. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 623, article no. A127.

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Ahmed, Saad; Hall, David; Skottfelt, Jesper; Dryer, Benjamin; Holland, Andrew; Crowley, Cian and Hernandez, Jose (2022). Modelling charge transfer inefficiency in Gaia CCDs with in-flight and on-ground data. In: X-Ray, Optical, and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy X, p. 51.

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Ahmed, Saad; Hall, David; Crowley, Cian; Skottfelt, Jesper; Dryer, Benjamin; Seabroke, George; Hernandez, Jose and Holland, Andrew (2020). Gaia CCDs: charge transfer inefficiency measurements between five years of flight. In: X-Ray, Optical, and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy IX, SPIE, Bellingham, WA, 11454, article no. 114540S.

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Ahmed, Saad (2023). An investigation of the radiation damage experienced by the CCDs on the Gaia focal plane. Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) thesis The Open University.

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Ahmed, Saad (2021). Investigating radiation damage experienced by Gaia's detectors.

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