Cooling of ground-based telescope instrumentation: the LINC-NIRVANA cryostat

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Sep 2004

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Ground-based Instrumentation for Astronomy. Edited by Alan F. M. Moorwood and Iye Masanori. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 5492

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The MPIA in Heidelberg has built many instruments for IR observation over the years. While the previous instruments were moderate in size and could easily be enclosed in a liquid nitrogen dewar, future instruments will require different cooling concepts. The use of Gifford McMahon coolers was chosen for some instruments, but has the disadvantage of low frequency vibrations. The recently-developed pulse tube coolers have lower vibrations but other disadvantages. For the LINC-NIRVANA cryostat, we plan to build a cooling system with a constant flow of Helium through a heat exchanger inside the cryostat. This cooling concept could also be expanded to future instrumentation for the next generation of telescopes.

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