Thermal design of the SCUBA-2 instrument detector stage and enclosure

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5498, Issue , 2004, Pages 446-454

  Woodcraft, Adam L ^a   Gannaway, Fred C ^a   Gostick, David C ^b   Bintley, Dan ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UK ASTRONOMY TECHNOLOGY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Millikelvin; SCUBA 2; Submm; Thermal design

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; CRYOGENICS; REFRIGERATORS; RIGIDITY; SPACE TELESCOPES;

MILLIKELVIN; SCUBA-2; SUBMM; THERMAL DESIGN;

IMAGE SENSORS;

EID: 12744253986     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.551479     Document Type: Conference Paper

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