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Title: Mechanical cryocooler noise observed in the ground testing of the Resolve X-ray microcalorimeter onboard XRISM

Authors: R. Imamura (1), H. Awaki (1), M. Tsujimoto (2), S. Yamada (3), F. S. Porter (4), C. A. Kilbourne (4), R. L. Kelley (4), Y. Takei (2) (on behalf of the XRISM Resolve team, (1) Ehime U., (2) JAXA ISAS, (3) Rikkyo U., (4) NASA GSFC)
Abstract: Low-temperature detectors often use mechanical coolers as part of the cooling chain in order to reach sub-Kelvin operating temperatures. The microphonics noise caused by the mechanical coolers is a general and inherent issue for these detectors. We have observed this effect in the ground test data obtained with the Resolve instrument to be flown on the XRISM satellite. Resolve is a cryogenic X-ray microcalorimeter spectrometer with a required energy resolution of 7 eV at 6 keV. Five mechanical coolers are used to cool from ambient temperature to about 4 K: four two-stage Stirling coolers (STC) driven nominally at 15 Hz and a Joule-Thomson cooler (JTC) driven nominally at 52 Hz. In 2019, we operated the flight-model instrument for two weeks, in which we also obtained accelerometer data inside the cryostat at a low-temperature stage (He tank). X-ray detector and accelerometer data were obtained continuously while changing the JTC drive frequency, which produced a unique data set for investigating how the vibration from the cryocoolers propagates to the detector. In the detector noise spectra, we observed harmonics of both STCs and JTC. More interestingly, we also observed the low (<20 Hz) frequency beat between the 4'th JTC and 14'th STC harmonics and the 7'th JTC and the 23--24'th STC harmonics. We present here a description and interpretation of these measurements.
Comments: J Low Temp Phys (2023)
Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
DOI: 10.1007/s10909-022-02935-1
Cite as: arXiv:2303.01004 [astro-ph.IM]
  (or arXiv:2303.01004v1 [astro-ph.IM] for this version)

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From: Masahiro Tsujimoto [view email]
[v1] Thu, 2 Mar 2023 06:46:46 GMT (2138kb)

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