Cryogenic system for the ArTeMiS large sub millimeter camera

E. Ercolani; J. Relland; L. Clerc; L. Duband; T. Jourdan; M. Talvard; J. Le Pennec; J. Martignac; F. Visticot

doi:10.1117/12.2055176

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23 July 2014 Cryogenic system for the ArTeMiS large sub millimeter camera

E. Ercolani, J. Relland, L. Clerc, L. Duband, T. Jourdan, M. Talvard, J. Le Pennec, J. Martignac, F. Visticot

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Proceedings Volume 9153, Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy VII; 915324 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2055176
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2014, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Abstract

A new photonic camera has been developed in the framework of the ArTéMis project (Bolometers architecture for large field of view ground based telescopes in the sub-millimeter). This camera scans the sky in the sub-millimeter range at simultaneously three different wavelengths, namely 200 μm, 350 μm, 450 μm, and is installed inside the APEX telescope located at 5100m above sea level in Chile. Bolometric detectors cooled to 300 mK are used in the camera, which is integrated in an original cryostat developed at the low temperature laboratory (SBT) of the INAC institut. This cryostat contains filters, optics, mirrors and detectors which have to be implemented according to mass, size and stiffness requirements. As a result the cryostat exhibits an unusual geometry. The inner structure of the cryostat is a 40 K plate which acts as an optical bench and is bound to the external vessel through two hexapods, one fixed and the other one mobile thanks to a ball bearing. Once the cryostat is cold, this characteristic enabled all the different elements to be aligned with the optical axis. The cryogenic chain is built around a pulse tube cooler (40 K and 4 K) coupled to a double stage helium sorption cooler (300 mK). The cryogenic and vacuum processes are managed by a Siemens PLC and all the data are showed and stored on a CEA SCADA system. This paper describes the mechanical and thermal design of the cryostat, its command control, and the first thermal laboratory tests. This work was carried out in collaboration with the Astrophysics laboratory SAp of the IRFU institut. SAp and SBT have installed the camera in July 2013 inside the Cassegrain cabin of APEX.

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E. Ercolani, J. Relland, L. Clerc, L. Duband, T. Jourdan, M. Talvard, J. Le Pennec, J. Martignac, and F. Visticot "Cryogenic system for the ArTeMiS large sub millimeter camera", Proc. SPIE 9153, Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy VII, 915324 (23 July 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2055176

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