Mimir Status

2009/10/08

Mimir is ON the Perkins telescope and being used for observations.

Status as of today:

Detector Temperature	33.5 K, stable
Optics Temperature	63.6 K, +/- 1K
Dewar Vacuum	2x10^-10 torr, stable

Reference: Nominal Operating Temperatures and Pressures:

Sensor & Plot Color	Location / Name	Nominal Operating Values
TA (white)	2nd Stage of Helium Refrigerator	13-22 K
T3 (purple)	Detector Side of Cu Block with Sapphire disk	16-27 K
TB (pink)	Detector Array	33.50 +/- 0.01 K
T8 (yellow)	1st Stage of Helium Refrigerator	50-70 K
T1 (green)	Filter Box	65-75 K
T6 (orange)	Camera Block	60-75 K
T5 (red)	Cold Bench	60-75 K
T7 (gray)	Outside surface of Entrance Window	267-310 K
BA gauge	High Vacuum Sensor inside cryostat	8x10^-11 to 1x10^-4 torr (sampled every 6 hours)
TC1	Thermocouple Sensor inside cryostat	< 0.001 torr

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

A cartoon 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).

Complete weather readouts for the past 24 hours at the Perkins telescope site on Anderson Mesa may be see by clicking this link.

Perkins Telescope schedule for:

Current Quarter (2009-Q4):

October 2009
November 2009
December 2009

Upcoming Quarter (2010-Q1): TBD

Next Proposals (for 2010-Q1) due ~ 1 Nov.

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