Preliminary thermal architecture of the X-IFU instrument dewar

Ivan Charles; Christophe Daniel; Jérome André; Lionel Duband; Jean-Marc Duval; Roland den Hartog; Kazuhisa Mitsuda; Keisuke Shinozaki; Henk van Weers; Noriko Y. Yamasaki

doi:10.1117/12.2232710

18 July 2016 Preliminary thermal architecture of the X-IFU instrument dewar

Ivan Charles, Christophe Daniel, Jérome André, Lionel Duband, Jean-Marc Duval, Roland den Hartog, Kazuhisa Mitsuda, Keisuke Shinozaki, Henk van Weers, Noriko Y. Yamasaki

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Proceedings Volume 9905, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray; 99052J (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232710
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2016, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Abstract

The ESA Athena mission will implement 2 instruments to study the hot and energetic universe. The X-ray Integral Field Unit (X-IFU) will provide spatially resolved high resolution spectroscopy. This high energy resolution of 2.5 eV at 7 keV could be achieved thanks to TES (Transition Edge Sensor) detectors that need to be cooled to very low temperature. To obtain the required 50 mK temperature level, a careful design of the cryostat and of the cooling chain including different technologies in cascade is needed. The preliminary cryogenic architecture of the X-IFU instrument that fulfils the TES detector thermal requirements is described. In particular, the thermal design of the detector focal plane assembly (FPA), that uses three temperature stages (from 2 K to 50 mK) to limit the thermal loads on the lowest temperature stage, is described. The baseline cooling chain is based on European and Japanese mechanical coolers (Stirling, Pulse tube and Joule Thomson coolers) that precool a sub Kelvin cooler made of a 3He sorption cooler coupled with a small ADR (Adiabatic Demagnetization Refrigerator). Preliminary thermal budgets of the X-IFU cryostat are presented and discussed regarding cooling chain performances.

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Ivan Charles, Christophe Daniel, Jérome André, Lionel Duband, Jean-Marc Duval, Roland den Hartog, Kazuhisa Mitsuda, Keisuke Shinozaki, Henk van Weers, and Noriko Y. Yamasaki "Preliminary thermal architecture of the X-IFU instrument dewar", Proc. SPIE 9905, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 99052J (18 July 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232710

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