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 cm2. ? 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