Summary: This document reports the analysis of the minimum shutter time, shutter delay and linearity for the CCDs used in the ground based telescopes devoted to the Gaia absolute calibration programme.

Bibtex entry for this abstract:

@UNPUBLISHED{LL:GA-004,
   author = {G.~Altavilla and E.~Pancino and S.~Marinoni and others},
   title={{I}nstrument {F}amiliarization {P}lan for ground based observations of {S}{P}{S}{S}. {I}. {C}{C}{D} {S}hutter {C}haracterization and {L}inearity {E}valuation},
   institution={Osservatorio di Bologna, Italy},
   year={2011},
   month={May},
   url={http://www.rssd.esa.int/doc_fetch.php?id=3075673},
   note={GAIA-C5-TN-OABO-GA-004},
   type={Technical Note}
}