The cryo-mechanical design of SCUBA-2 - A wide field imager for the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5492, Issue PART 3, 2004, Pages 1743-1754

  Gostick, David ^a   Montgomery, Dave ^a   Wall, Bob ^a   McGregor, Helen ^a   Cliffe, Mark ^a   Woodcraft, Adam ^b   Gannaway, Fred ^b  

^a UK ASTRONOMY TECHNOLOGY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cryogenics; Dilution refrigerator; Large facility class instrument; Mechanical design; Pulse tube cooler

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ARRAYS; CRYOSTATS; OPTIMIZATION; REFRIGERATORS; TELESCOPES;

DILUTION REFIGERATOR; LARGE FACILITY CLASS INSTRUMENT; MECHANICAL DESIGN; PULSE TUBE COOLER;

IMAGE SENSORS;

EID: 10444239321     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.551749     Document Type: Conference Paper

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