Cooling the Dark Energy Camera CCD array using a closed-loop, twophase liquid nitrogen system

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7739, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Cease, H ^a   DePoyc, D ^c   Derylo, G ^a   Diehl, H T ^a   Estrada, J ^a   Flaugher, B ^a   Kuk, K ^a   Kuhlmann, S ^b   Lathrop, A ^a   Schultz, K ^a   Reinert, R J ^a   Schmitt, R L ^a   Stefanik, A ^a   Zhao, A ^b  

^a FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Camera cooling; CCD; CTIO; DECAM; DES; Liquid nitrogen; NOAO; Pump

Indexed keywords

CCD; CTIO; DECAM; DES; NOAO;

ASTROPHYSICS; CAMERAS; COOLING; COOLING SYSTEMS; INSTRUMENTS; LIQUID NITROGEN; LIQUIDS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PUMPS; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT;

CCD CAMERAS;

EID: 77956776511     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.857995     Document Type: Conference Paper

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