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Paper Abstract
In 2009, the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope converted the dewar for the ESPaDOnS spectrograph from using liquid
nitrogen cooling to using a Polycold® closed-cycle cooler. It was found that the higher temperature of the closed-cycle
cooler degraded the efficiency of the carbon getter for maintaining the vacuum to the point that vacuum could not be
maintained long-term without the pumping of a cold-cathode gauge. This paper will detail this vacuum issue along with
some experiments done to show the pumping rates of the carbon getter and cold-cathode vacuum gauges, and describe a
light-baffle design for suppressing light from the gauge.
Paper Details
Date Published: 13 September 2012
PDF: 9 pages
Proc. SPIE 8450, Modern Technologies in Space- and Ground-based Telescopes and Instrumentation II, 84504M (13 September 2012); doi: 10.1117/12.926428
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 8450:
Modern Technologies in Space- and Ground-based Telescopes and Instrumentation II
Ramón Navarro; Colin R. Cunningham; Eric Prieto, Editor(s)
PDF: 9 pages
Proc. SPIE 8450, Modern Technologies in Space- and Ground-based Telescopes and Instrumentation II, 84504M (13 September 2012); doi: 10.1117/12.926428
Show Author Affiliations
Tom Benedict, Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (United States)
Gregory A. Barrick, Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (United States)
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 8450:
Modern Technologies in Space- and Ground-based Telescopes and Instrumentation II
Ramón Navarro; Colin R. Cunningham; Eric Prieto, Editor(s)
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