Thermal Design for the Micro-X Rocket Payload
Micro-X is a NASA funded, rocket borne X-ray imaging spectrometer that uses transition edge sensors (TESs) to do high-resolution microcalorimetry. The TESs are cooled by an adiabatic demagnetization refrigerator, whose salt pill functions as a heat sink for the detectors. We have made a thermal mode...
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| author | Goldfinger, David C. Figueroa-Feliciano, Enectali Danowski, Meredith E Heine, Sarah N.T. |
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| description | Micro-X is a NASA funded, rocket borne X-ray imaging spectrometer that uses transition edge sensors (TESs) to do high-resolution microcalorimetry. The TESs are cooled by an adiabatic demagnetization refrigerator, whose salt pill functions as a heat sink for the detectors. We have made a thermal model of the cryostat with SPICE for the purposes of understanding its behavior at low temperatures. Implementing modifications based on this model has further allowed us to cool the system down to a lower temperature than had previously been accessible and to improve its low-temperature hold time. These modifications include a variety of schemes for power through heat sinks and tweaking the conductance between the cold baths and the refrigerated hardware. We present an overview of the model and its constituent parameters, information about thermal modifications, and a summary of results from thermal tests of the entire system. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1037882022-09-28T14:02:06Z Thermal Design for the Micro-X Rocket Payload Goldfinger, David C. Figueroa-Feliciano, Enectali Danowski, Meredith E Heine, Sarah N.T. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research Goldfinger, David C. Figueroa-Feliciano, E. Danowski, M. Heine, Sarah Nicole Trowbridge Micro-X is a NASA funded, rocket borne X-ray imaging spectrometer that uses transition edge sensors (TESs) to do high-resolution microcalorimetry. The TESs are cooled by an adiabatic demagnetization refrigerator, whose salt pill functions as a heat sink for the detectors. We have made a thermal model of the cryostat with SPICE for the purposes of understanding its behavior at low temperatures. Implementing modifications based on this model has further allowed us to cool the system down to a lower temperature than had previously been accessible and to improve its low-temperature hold time. These modifications include a variety of schemes for power through heat sinks and tweaking the conductance between the cold baths and the refrigerated hardware. We present an overview of the model and its constituent parameters, information about thermal modifications, and a summary of results from thermal tests of the entire system. United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Space Technology Research Fellowship) 2016-07-21T17:13:16Z 2017-03-01T16:14:48Z 2016-02 2015-09 2016-06-30T12:07:50Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0022-2291 1573-7357 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/103788 Goldfinger, D. C., E. Figueroa-Feliciano, M. Danowski, and S. N. T. Heine. “Thermal Design for the Micro-X Rocket Payload.” J Low Temp Phys 184, no. 3–4 (February 23, 2016): 699–705. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4081-6322 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5268-8423 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9285-5556 en http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10909-016-1549-1 Journal of Low Temperature Physics Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. Springer Science+Business Media New York application/pdf Springer US Springer US |
| spellingShingle | Goldfinger, David C. Figueroa-Feliciano, Enectali Danowski, Meredith E Heine, Sarah N.T. Thermal Design for the Micro-X Rocket Payload |
| title | Thermal Design for the Micro-X Rocket Payload |
| title_full | Thermal Design for the Micro-X Rocket Payload |
| title_fullStr | Thermal Design for the Micro-X Rocket Payload |
| title_full_unstemmed | Thermal Design for the Micro-X Rocket Payload |
| title_short | Thermal Design for the Micro-X Rocket Payload |
| title_sort | thermal design for the micro x rocket payload |
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