Measuring the Heat Load on the Flight ASTRO-H Soft Xray Spectrometer Dewar
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- Ezoe, Y.
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- June 24, 2015.
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- Takei, Y., Kanao, K., Kelley, R., Kimball, M., Fujimoto, R., DiPirro, M., Ishikawa, K., Sneiderman, G., Shirron, P., Mitsuda, K., Tsunematsu, S., and Yoshida, S.
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- The Soft Xray Spectrometer (SXS) instrument on-board the ASTRO-H X-ray mission is based on microcalorimeters operating at 50 mK. Low temperature is achieved by use of an adiabatic demagnetization refrigerator (ADR) cyclically operating up to a heat sink at either 1.2 K or 4.5 K. The 1.2 K heat sink is provided by a 40 liter superfluid helium dewar. The parasitic heat to the helium from supports, plumbing, wires, and radiation, and the cyclic heat dumped by the ADR operation determine the liquid helium lifetime. To measure this lifetime we have used various techniques to rapidly achieve thermal equilibrium and then measure the boil-off rate of the helium. We have measured a parasitic heat of 650 microwatts and a cyclic heat of 100 microwatts for a total of 750 microwatts. This closely matches the predicted heat load. Starting with a fill level at launch of more than 33 liters results in a lifetime of greater than 4 years for the liquid helium. The techniques and accuracy for this measurement will be explained in this paper.
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GSFC-E-DAA-TN23865.
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