The Simons Observatory: A large-diameter truss for a refracting telescope cooled to 1 K

Author:

Crowley Kevin D.1,Dow Peter2,Shroyer Jordan E.2ORCID,Groh John C.3,Dober Bradley34ORCID,Spisak Jacob5,Galitzki Nicholas5ORCID,Bhandarkar Tanay6,Devlin Mark J.6,Dicker Simon6,Gallardo Patricio A.7,Harrington Kathleen8ORCID,Iuliano Jeffrey6,Johnson Bradley R.2ORCID,Johnson Delwin5,Kofman Anna M.6ORCID,Kusaka Akito9101112,Lee Adrian13,Limon Michele6ORCID,Nati Federico14ORCID,Orlowski-Scherer John6,Page Lyman1,Randall Michael5,Teply Grant5,Tsan Tran5,Wollack Edward J.15ORCID,Xu Zhilei16,Zhu Ningfeng6

Affiliation:

1. Joseph Henry Laboratories of Physics, Jadwin Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA

2. Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, USA

3. National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado 80305, USA

4. Department of Physics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA

5. Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California 92093, USA

6. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, 209 South 33rd St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA

7. Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA

8. Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA

9. Physics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA

10. Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan

11. Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), Berkeley Satellite, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA

12. Research Center for the Early Universe, School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan

13. Physics Department, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA

14. Department of Physics, University of Milano-Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 3, Milan (MI) 20126, Italy

15. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA

16. MIT Kavli Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA

Abstract

We present the design and measured performance of a new carbon fiber strut design that is used in a cryogenically cooled truss for the Simons Observatory small aperture telescope. The truss consists of two aluminum 6061 rings separated by 24 struts. Each strut consists of a central carbon fiber tube fitted with two aluminum end caps. We tested the performance of the strut and truss by (i) cryogenically cycling and destructively pull-testing strut samples, (ii) non-destructively pull-testing the final truss, and (iii) measuring the thermal conductivity of the carbon fiber tubes. We found that the strut strength is limited by the mounting fasteners and the strut end caps, not the epoxy adhesive or the carbon fiber tube. This result is consistent with our numerical predictions. Our thermal measurements suggest that the conductive heat load through the struts (from 4 to 1 K) will be less than 1 mW. This strut design may be a promising candidate for use in other cryogenic support structures.

Funder

Simons Foundation

University of Pennsylvania

University of Virginia

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Publisher

AIP Publishing

Subject

Instrumentation

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