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    Planck early results. II. The thermal performance of Planck


    Ade, P.A.R., Aghanim, N., Arnaud, M., Ashdown, M., Aumont, J., Baccigalupi, C., Baker, M., Balbi, A., Banday, A.J., Barreiro, R.B., Battaner, E., Benabed, K., Benoit, A., Bernard, J.-P., Bersanelli, M., Bhandari, P., Bhatia, R., Bock, J.J., Bonaldi, A., Bond, J.R., Borders, J., Borrill, J., Bouchet, F.R., Bowman, B., Bradshaw, T., Breelle, E., Bucher, M., Burigana, C., Butler, R.C., Cabella, P., Camus, P., Cantalupo, C.M., Cappellini, B., Cardoso, J.-F., Catalano, A., Cayon, L., Challinor, A., Chamballu, A., Chambelland, J.P., Charra, J., Charra, M., Chiang, L.-Y., Chiang, C., Christensen, P.R., Clements, D.L., Collaudin, B., Colombi, S., Couchot, F., Coulais, A., Crill, B.P., Crook, M., Cuttaia, F., Damasio, C., Danese, L., Davies, R.D., Davis, R.J., De Bernardis, P., de Gasperis, G., de Rosa, A., Delabrouille, J., Delouis, J.-M., Desert, F.-X., Dolag, K., Donzelli, S., Dore, O., Dorl, U., Douspis, M., Dupac, X., Efstathiou, G., Enßlin, T.A., Eriksen, H.K., Filliard, C., Finelli, F., Foley, S., Forni, O., Fosalba, P., Fourmond, J.-J., Frailis, M., Franceschi, E., Galeotta, S., Ganga, K., Gavila, E., Giard, M., Giardino, G., Giraud-Héraud, Y., Gonzalez-Nuevo, J., Gorski, K.M., Gratton, S., Gregorio, A., Grupposo, A., Guyot, G., Harrison, D., Helou, G., Henrot-Versille, S., Hernandez-Monteagudo, C., Herranz, D., Hildebrandt, S.R., Hivon, E., Hobson, M., Holmes, W.A., Hornstrup, A., Hovest, W., Hoyland, R.J., Huffenberger, K.M., Israelsson, U., Jaffe, A.H., Jones, W.C., Juvela, M., Keihanen, E., Keskitalo, R., Kisner, T.S., Kneissl, R., Knox, L., Kurki-Suonio, H., Lagache, G., Lamarre, J.-M., Lami, P., Lasenby, A., Laureijs, R.J., Lavabre, A., Lawrence, C.R., Leach, S., Lee, R., Leonardi, R., Leroy, C., Lilje, P.B., Lopez-Caniego, M., Lubin, P.M., Macias-Perez, J.F., Maciaszek, T., MacTavish, C.J., Maffei, B., Maino, D., Mandolesi, N., Mann, R., Maris, M., Martinez-Gonzalez, E., Masi, S., Matarrese, S., Matthai, F., Mazzotta, P., McGehee, P., Meinhold, P.R., Melchiorri, A., Melot, F., Mendes, L., Mennella, A., Miville-Deschenes, M.-A., Moneti, A., Montier, L., Mora, J., Morgante, G., Morisset, N., Mortlock, D., Munshi, D., Murphy, J.Anthony, Naselsky, P., Nash, A., Natoli, P., Netterfield, C.B., Novikov, D., Novikov, I., O'Dwyer, I.J., Osborne, S., Pajot, F., Pasian, F., Patanchon, G., Pearson, D., Perdereau, O., Perotto, L., Perrotta, F., Piacentini, F., Piat, M., Plaszczynski, S., Platania, P., Pointecouteau, E., Polenta, G., Ponthieu, N., Poutanen, T., Prezeau, G., Prina, M., Prunet, S., Rachen, J.P., Rebolo, R., Reinecke, M., Renault, C., Ricciardi, S., Riller, T., Ristorcelli, I., Rocha, G., Rosset, C., Rubino-Martin, J.A., Rusholme, B., Sandri, M., Santos, D., Savini, G., Schaefer, B.M., Scott, D., Seiffert, M.D., Shellard, P., Smoot, G.F., Starck, J.-L., Stassi, P., Stivoli, F., Stolyarov, V., Stompor, R., Sudiwala, R., Sygnet, J.-F., Tauber, J.A., Terenzi, L., Toffolatti, L., Tomasi, M., Torre, J.-P., Tristram, M., Tuovinen, J., Valenziano, L., Vibert, L., Vielva, P., Villa, F., Vittorio, N., Wade, L.A., Wandelt, B.D., Watson, C., White, S.D.M., Wilkinson, A., Wilson, P., Yvon, D., Zacchei, A., Zhang, B. and Zonca, A. (2011) Planck early results. II. The thermal performance of Planck. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 536 (A2). pp. 1-31. ISSN 0004-6361

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    Abstract

    The performance of the Planck instruments in space is enabled by their low operating temperatures, 20 K for LFI and 0.1 K for HFI, achieved through a combination of passive radiative cooling and three active mechanical coolers. The scientific requirement for very broad frequency coverage led to two detector technologies with widely different temperature and cooling needs. Active coolers could satisfy these needs; a helium cryostat, as used by previous cryogenic space missions (IRAS, COBE, ISO, Spitzer, AKARI), could not. Radiative cooling is provided by three V-groove radiators and a large telescope baffle. The active coolers are a hydrogen sorption cooler (<20 K), a 4He Joule-Thomson cooler (4.7 K), and a 3He-4He dilution cooler (1.4 K and 0.1 K). The flight system was at ambient temperature at launch and cooled in space to operating conditions. The HFI bolometer plate reached 93 mK on 3 July 2009, 50 days after launch. The solar panel always faces the Sun, shadowing the rest of Planck, and operates at a mean temperature of 384 K. At the other end of the spacecraft, the telescope baffle operates at 42.3 K and the telescope primary mirror operates at 35.9 K. The temperatures of key parts of the instruments are stabilized by both active and passive methods. Temperature fluctuations are driven by changes in the distance from the Sun, sorption cooler cycling and fluctuations in gas-liquid flow, and fluctuations in cosmic ray flux on the dilution and bolometer plates. These fluctuations do not compromise the science data.
    Item Type: Article
    Additional Information: © ESO 2011 The original publication is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201116486
    Keywords: cosmic background radiation; space vehicles; instruments; instrumentation; detectors; Planck Collaboration;
    Academic Unit: Faculty of Science and Engineering > Experimental Physics
    Item ID: 3975
    Depositing User: Dr. Anthony Murphy
    Date Deposited: 13 Nov 2012 16:27
    Journal or Publication Title: Astronomy & Astrophysics
    Publisher: EDP Sciences
    Refereed: Yes
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    URI: https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/3975
    Use Licence: This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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