Cryogenic environment and performance for testing the Planck radiometers
- 1 December 2009
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Instrumentation
- Vol. 4 (12) , T12015
- https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/4/12/t12015
Abstract
This paper is part of the Prelaunch status LFI papers published on JINST: http://www.iop.org/EJ/journal/-page=extra.proc5/jinst The Planck LFI Radiometer Chain Assemblies (RCAs) have been calibrated in two dedicated cryogenic facilities. In this paper the facilities and the related instrumentation are described. The main satellite thermal interfaces for the single chains have to be reproduced and stability requirements have to be satisfied. Setup design, problems occurred and improving solutions implemented are discussed. Performance of the cryogenic setup are reported.Keywords
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