Performance of the SCUBA-2 dry dilution refrigerator: 4 Years of operation at the JCMT

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8452, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Bintley, Dan ^a   Kuroda, John T ^a   Starman, Erik G ^a   Craig, Simon ^a   Holland, Wayne S ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UK ASTRONOMY TECHNOLOGY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dry dilution refrigerator; SCUBA 2; Submillimetre astronomy; TES

Indexed keywords

BASE TEMPERATURE; COMMISSIONING PHASE; CONTINUOUS OPERATION; COOLING POWER; CRYOCOOLERS; DETECTOR ARRAYS; DILUTION REFRIGERATOR; LIQUID HELIUM; PULSE TUBES; SCUBA-2; SQUID AMPLIFIERS; SUBMILLIMETRE; SUBMILLIMETRE ASTRONOMY; TES;

ASTRONOMY; COOLING; DILUTION; INFRARED DETECTORS; INSTRUMENTS; LIQUEFIED GASES; SUPERFLUID HELIUM;

REFRIGERATORS;

EID: 84872082362     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.926540     Document Type: Conference Paper

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