Cooling system for the soft X-ray spectrometer onboard Astro-H

被引:32
作者
Fujimoto, Ryuichi [1 ,2 ]
Mitsuda, Kazuhisa [2 ]
Yamasaki, Noriko [2 ]
Takei, Yoh [2 ]
Tsujimoto, Masahiro [2 ]
Sugita, Hiroyuki [3 ]
Sato, Yoichi [3 ]
Shinozaki, Keisuke [3 ]
Ohashi, Takaya [4 ]
Ishisaki, Yoshitaka [4 ]
Ezoe, Yuichiro [4 ]
Murakami, Masahide [5 ]
Kitamoto, Shunji [6 ]
Murakami, Hiroshi [6 ]
Tamagawa, Toru [7 ]
Kawaharada, Madoka [7 ]
Yamaguchi, Hiroya [7 ]
Sato, Kosuke [1 ]
Kanao, Kenichi [8 ]
Yoshida, Seiji [8 ]
DiPirro, Mike [9 ]
Shirron, Peter [9 ]
Sneiderman, Gary [9 ]
Kelley, Richard L. [9 ]
Porter, F. Scott [9 ]
Kilbourne, Caroline A. [9 ]
Crow, John [9 ]
Mattern, Andrea [9 ]
Kashani, Ali [10 ,11 ]
McCammon, Dan [12 ]
den Herder, Jan-Willem [13 ]
机构
[1] Kanazawa Univ, Fac Math & Phys, Kanazawa, Ishikawa 9201192, Japan
[2] JAXA, Inst Space & Astronaut Sci, Sagamihara, Kanagawa 2298510, Japan
[3] JAXA, Aerosp Res & Dev Directorate, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3058505, Japan
[4] Tokyo Metropolitan Univ, Tokyo 1920397, Japan
[5] Univ Tsukuba, Inst Engn Mech & Syst, Ibaraki 3058573, Japan
[6] Rikkyo Univ, Toshima Ku, Tokyo 1718501, Japan
[7] RIKEN, Wako, Saitama 3510198, Japan
[8] Sumitomo Heavy Ind Ltd, Niihama, Ehime 7928588, Japan
[9] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
[10] NASA, Ames Res Ctr, Moffett Field, CA 94035 USA
[11] Atlas Sci, San Jose, CA 95120 USA
[12] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Phys, Madison, WI 53706 USA
[13] SRON, Netherlands Inst Space Res, NL-3584 CA Utrecht, Netherlands
关键词
Space cryogenics; Adiabatic demagnetization; He II systems; Joule-Thomson coolers; Stirling;
D O I
10.1016/j.cryogenics.2010.02.004
中图分类号
O414.1 [热力学];
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摘要
The Soft X-ray Spectrometer (SXS) is a cryogenic high resolution X-ray spectrometer onboard the X-ray astronomy satellite Astro-H which will be launched in 2014. The detector array is cooled down to 50 mK using an adiabatic demagnetization refrigerator (ADR). The cooling chain from the room temperature to the ADR heat-sink is composed of superfluid liquid He, a Joule-Thomson cryocooler, and double-stage Stirling cryocoolers. It is designed to keep 301 of liquid He for more than 5 years in the normal case, and longer than 3 years even if one of the cryocoolers fails. Cryogen-free operation is also possible in the normal case. It is fully redundant from the room temperature to the ADR heat-sink. (c) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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页码:488 / 493
页数:6
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