APOGEE cryostat design

Basil Blank; Chuck Henderson; John C. Wilson; Fred R. Hearty; Michael F. Skrutskie; Thomas P. O'Brien; Steven R. Majewski; Ricardo Schiavon; Paul Maseman; Sophia Brunner; Adam Burton; Eric Walker

doi:10.1117/12.857095

APOGEE cryostat design

Basil Blank, Chuck Henderson, John C. Wilson, Fred R. Hearty, Michael F. Skrutskie, Thomas P. O'Brien, Steven R. Majewski, Ricardo Schiavon, Paul Maseman, Sophia Brunner, Adam Burton, Eric Walker

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Abstract

The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) is a survey of all Galactic stellar populations that will employ an R=30,000 spectrograph operating in the near-infrared (1.5-1.7μm) wavelength range. The fiber-fed spectrograph is housed in a large (1.4m x 2.3m x 1.3m) stainless steel cryostat or Dewar that is LN2-cooled and will be located in a building near the 2.5m Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) telescope to which it will be coupled. The choice of shell material and configuration was an optimization among optics packaging, weight, strength, external dimensions, rigging and transportation, the available integration and testing room, and the ultimate instrument room at APO. Internals are fabricated of more traditional 6061-T6 aluminum which is well proven in cryogenic applications. An active thermal shield with MLI blanketing yields an extremely low thermal load of 45-50 watts for this ∼3000 liter instrument. Cryostat design details are discussed with applicable constraints and trade decisions. APOGEE is one of four experiments that are part of Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III).

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy III
Edition	PART 1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.857095
State	Published - 2010
Event	Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy III - San Diego, CA, United States Duration: Jun 27 2010 → Jul 2 2010

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Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Number	PART 1
Volume	7735
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X

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Other	Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy III
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Diego, CA
Period	6/27/10 → 7/2/10

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Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Condensed Matter Physics
Computer Science Applications
Applied Mathematics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Blank, B., Henderson, C., Wilson, J. C., Hearty, F. R., Skrutskie, M. F., O'Brien, T. P., Majewski, S. R., Schiavon, R., Maseman, P., Brunner, S., Burton, A., & Walker, E. (2010). APOGEE cryostat design. In Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy III (PART 1 ed.). Article 773569 (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 7735, No. PART 1). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.857095

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