The XQC microcalorimeter sounding rocket: a stable LTD platform 30 secondsafter rocket motor burnout

Authors
Porter, FS Almy, R Apodaca, E Figueroa-Feliciano, E Galeazzi, M Kelley, R McCammon, D Stahle, CK Szymkowiak, AE Sanders, WT
Citation
Fs. Porter et al., The XQC microcalorimeter sounding rocket: a stable LTD platform 30 secondsafter rocket motor burnout, NUCL INST A, 444(1-2), 2000, pp. 220-223
Citations number
2
Categorie Soggetti
Spectroscopy /Instrumentation/Analytical Sciences","Instrumentation & Measurement
Journal title
NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT
ISSN journal
01689002 → ACNP
Volume
444
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
2000
Pages
220 - 223
Database
ISI
SICI code
0168-9002(20000411)444:1-2<220:TXMSRA>2.0.ZU;2-P
Abstract
The XQC microcalorimeter sounding rocket experiment is designed to provide a stable thermal environment for an LTD detector system within 30 s of the burnout of its second stage rocket motor. The detector system used for this instrument is a 36-pixel microcalorimeter array operated at 60 mK with a s ingle-stage adiabatic demagnetization refrigerator (ADR). The ADR is mounte d on a space-pumped liquid helium tank with vapor cooled shields which is v ibration isolated from the rocket structure. We present here some of the de sign and performance details of this mature LTD instrument, which has just completed its third suborbital flight. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All r ights reserved.