Design of a 3-stage ADR for the Soft X-ray Spectrometer instrument on the Astro-H mission

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7732, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Shirron, Peter J ^a   Kimball, Mark O ^a   Wegel, Donald C ^a   Canavan, Edgar R ^a   DiPirro, Michael J ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adiabatic demagnetization refrigerator; Space cryogenics; X ray microcalorimeters

Indexed keywords

ADIABATIC DEMAGNETIZATION REFRIGERATORS; CONTINUOUS ADR; HEAT FLOWS; HEAT LOADS; HEAT SWITCHES; JOULE-THOMSON; LIQUID HELIUM; MICRO-CALORIMETERS; OPERATING MODES; PIXEL DETECTOR ARRAYS; SINGLE STAGE; SINGLE-SHOT; SOFT X-RAY; SPACE CRYOGENICS; TEST RESULTS;

CALORIMETERS; COOLING SYSTEMS; CRYOGENICS; DEMAGNETIZATION; DESIGN; GAMMA RAYS; LIQUIDS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; RADIOACTIVITY; SPACE TELESCOPES; SPECTROMETRY; SUPERFLUID HELIUM; X RAY SPECTROMETERS; X RAYS;

REFRIGERATORS;

EID: 77957885320     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.856880     Document Type: Conference Paper

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