Development of cryogenic components based on COTS parts for the HARMONI instrument

Gigante, J. V.; Hernández, E.; Rodríguez-Ramos, L. F.; Estévez, Cristian; Moreno, Antonio F.; Garcia-Lorenzo, B.; Herreros, J. M.; Mediavilla, E.; Bryson, Ian; Clarke, Fraser; Thatte, Niranjan
Bibliographical reference

Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 9908, id. 99089U 19 pp. (2016).

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2016
Number of authors
11
IAC number of authors
6
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0
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Description
HARMONI is an integral field spectrograph working at visible and near-infrared wavelengths. The instrument will be part of the first-light complement at the E-ELT. The IAC is in charge of several work packages and the design of two important components is ongoing: A 'Cryogenic Pupil Mask Rotator' based on a direct drive brushless motor, and a 'Cryogenic Fast Shutter' based on voice coil. One of the main goals of these developments is the use of COTS (Commercial-Off-The-Shelf) parts since their use will reduce costs and short the schedule. Nevertheless, the application of COTS parts in cryo-vacuum is often very difficult and represents a technological challenge.