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

Author(s) : FUJIMOTO R., MITSUDA K., YAMASAKI N., et al.

Summary

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 30 l 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. [Reprinted with permission from Elsevier. Copyright, 2010].

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  • Original title: Cooling system for the soft X-ray spectrometer onboard Astro-H.
  • Record ID : 2010-1728
  • Languages: English
  • Source: 2009 Space Cryogenics Workshop, Arcadia, USA, June 23-25.
  • Publication date: 2010/09
  • DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cryogenics.2010.02.004

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