Mimir Status

2024/01/19

Mimir is ON the Perkins telescope and is operating cold in a normal fashion.

Status as of today:

Detector Temperature
33.5 K, stable to 0.001 K
Optics Temperature

67-75 K, stable to < 2K (diurnal variation)

Dewar Vacuum
5x10^-8 torr (diurnal variaition)

Reference: Nominal Operating Temperatures and Pressures:

Sensor & Plot Color
Location / Name
Nominal Operating Values
TA
Cold Bulkhead (Closed-loop locked)
68.0 K
TB
Detector Array (Closed-loop locked)
33.5 K
T8
1st Stage of Helium Refrigerator
50-70 K
T1
Filter Box
60-75 K
T6
Camera Block
60-75 K
T5
Cold Bench
60-75 K
T7
Outside surface of Entrance Window
267-300 K
BA gauge
High Vacuum Sensor inside cryostat
0.7-2.5 x10^-8 torr (sampled every 12 hours)
TC1
Thermocouple Sensor inside cryostat
< 0.001 torr

Real-time temperature and vacuum readouts and plots may be obtained from the Mimir status page by clicking this link.

A schematic map of the locations of the temperature sensors within Mimir can be found at this link.

The vacuum system monitoring consists of TC1, a thermocouple for the main cryostat (it bottoms out at 1x10^3 torr), TC2, a thermocouple for the LN2 precool loop, and BA, the Bayert-Alpert high vacuum gauge (which is turned on only every 12 hours, once Mimir reaches operating temperatures, as it supplies some 20W of heat).

Perkins Telescope Schedules since June 2019 (links to PTO web site)

Past Perkins Telescope schedule 2013-2019 (links to Lowell Web Site)

Past Usage History:

December 2012
November 2012
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