OmegaCAM cooling system : Jean Louis Lizon, Armin Silber
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OmegaCAM cooling system : Jean Louis Lizon, Armin Silber GOALS: • Optical wide-angle camera OmegaCAM for the 2.6-m VLT Survey Telescope (VST) • Cassegrain focus, and the focal plane is populated with a mosaic of thirty-two 2K x 4K CCDs plus 4 virtually identical auxiliary CCDs for autoguiding and image analysis. • Operating temperature : 155 K. • Detectors total area: 630 cm 2 . → ~ 30 Watts direct radiation from the window and a total heat load of 60W. – → Autonomous LN2 cooling system
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OmegaCAM cooling system :Jean Louis Lizon, Armin Silber
GOALS:• Optical wide-angle camera OmegaCAM for the 2.6-m
VLT Survey Telescope (VST)• Cassegrain focus, and the focal plane is populated with a
mosaic of thirty-two 2K x 4K CCDs plus 4 virtually identical auxiliary CCDs for autoguiding and image analysis.
• Operating temperature : 155 K. • Detectors total area: 630 cm2. → ~ 30 Watts direct
radiation from the window and a total heat load of 60W.
–→ Autonomous LN2 cooling system
OmegaCAM cooling system :Jean Louis Lizon, Armin Silber
