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LSST’s Cryostat Assembly Completed

This video highlights recent work on the LSST cryostat.

how do you cool a 3.2 gigapixel camera

build a state-of-the-art refrigeration

system that's John he's part of a team

of slack scientists that have just

completed the cooling system an optical

bench for the world's largest camera

ever constructed okay okay

for astronomy this refrigerator

maintains perfect operating temperatures

so that all 189 of the 16 megapixel

sensors can continually snap snap snap

now all of the sensors will be mounted

on this ceramic plate it provides the

extremely flat surface to combine all

189 sensors into one giant focal plane

next stop for the cryostat a mountaintop

Observatory in Chile

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Farrin Abbott/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

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