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6 July 2018 Conversion of a classical coudé room at the CFHT into a clean room
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In order to accommodate new instrumentation arriving in early 2018, the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) converted one of its coudé spectrograph rooms into a cleanroom. The new instrumentation required ISO 8 conditions with a desired performance of ISO 7. The turn-key solutions available all provide much higher levels of performance at prices well outside the budget of the project, so we modified the room using a more cost effective in-house approach. We discuss the requirements of the new instrumentation, new administrative rules and procedures, changes made to the room and new equipment, and the resulting performance.
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Tom Benedict and Gregory A. Barrick "Conversion of a classical coudé room at the CFHT into a clean room", Proc. SPIE 10702, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII, 107022G (6 July 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2312307
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KEYWORDS
Particles

Curtains

Spectrographs

Standards development

Telescopes

Epoxies

Observatories

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