Category Archives: HPF Hardware

HPF Thermal Enclosure Setup at McDonald Observatory

Posted on December 3, 2014 by Gudmundur Kari Stefansson

Three members of the HPF team recently visited McDonald Observatory in Texas recently, with two goals in mind: Install the HPF thermal enclosure Setup a temperature monitoring system in the spectrograph room Installing the HPF Thermal Enclosure The HPF spectrograph … Continue reading →

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MLI Blankets

Posted on September 29, 2014 by Gudmundur Kari Stefansson

In recent weeks much progress has been made in making Multi-Layer Insulation (MLI) blankets for the HPF spectrograph. Below follows a video of some of the fabrication steps in the HPF clean-room lab: but what are MLI-blankets, how do they … Continue reading →

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HPF Subsystem Assembly: Heater Panels and Thermal Straps

Posted on August 7, 2014 by Gudmundur Kari Stefansson

Fabrication of various subsystems related to HPF is well under way, and some of them have reached their final assembly stage. Below you can see a video of the final assembly in one of our clean rooms by team members … Continue reading →

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