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Design and on-orbit operation of the adiabatic demagnetization refrigerator on the Hitomi Soft X-ray Spectrometer instrument

Peter J. Shirron, Mark O. Kimball, Bryan L. James, Theodore Muench, Edgar R. Canavan, Michael J. DiPirro, Thomas G. Bialas, Gary A. Sneiderman, Kevin R. Boyce, Caroline A. Kilbourne, Frederick S. Porter, Richard L. Kelley (+7 others)
2016 Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray  

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The Soft X-ray Spectrometer instrument on the Astro-H observatory contains a 6x6 array of x-ray microcalorimeters that is cooled to 50 mK by an adiabatic demagnetization refrigerator (ADR). The ADR consists of three stages in order to provide stable detector cooling using either a 1.2 K superfluid helium bath or a 4.5 K Joule-Thomson (JT) cryocooler as its heat sink. When liquid helium is present, two of the ADR's stages are used to single-shot cool the detectors while rejecting heat to the
more » ... um. After the helium is depleted, all three stages are used to continuously cool the helium tank (to about 1.5 K) and single-shot cool the detectors (to 50 mK), using the JT cryocooler as its heat sink. The Astro-H observatory, renamed Hitomi after its successful launch in February 2016, carried approximately 36 liters of helium into orbit. On day 5, the helium had cooled sufficiently (<1.4 K) to allow operation of the ADR. This paper describes the design, operation and on-orbit performance of the ADR, and the use of the ADR's heat rejection as a tool for mass gauging the helium tank.
doi:10.1117/12.2231301 fatcat:kfhfvkugwfczlerpwsaecrbdmq
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Peter J. Shirron, Mark O. Kimball, Bryan L. James, Theodore Muench, Edgar R. Canavan, Michael J. DiPirro, Thomas G. Bialas, Gary A. Sneiderman, Kevin R. Boyce, Caroline A. Kilbourne, Frederick S. Porter, Richard L. Kelley, Ryuichi Fujimoto, Yoh Takei, Seiji Yoshida, Kazuhisa Mitsuda, Jan-Willem A. den Herder, Tadayuki Takahashi, Marshall Bautz. "Design and on-orbit operation of the adiabatic demagnetization refrigerator on the Hitomi Soft X-ray Spectrometer instrument." Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray (2016)