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News Release from: Tekdata Interconnect Systems
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 26 May 2006
Cryogenic looms support space research
Tekdata Interconnection's Cryoconnect group has supplied state-of-the-art niobium titanium wires to the APEX-SZ Experiment.
Tekdata Interconnection's Cryoconnect group has supplied state-of-the-art niobium titanium wires to the APEX-SZ Experiment, which will be mounted on the APEX (Atacama Pathfinder Experiment for the Alma Atacama Large Millimetre Array) telescope, whose construction will begin this summer The APEX-SZ Experiment will study galaxy clusters via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect with unprecedented sensitivity
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 17 Aug 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Cryoconnect supplied a new generation of cryogenic looms which will be at the front end of data collection on the TES bolometer arrays and SQUID detectors, enabling a team of international scientists to study distant galaxies.
The building of the APEX telescope itself is a collaboration between the Max Planck Institut fur Radioastronomie (MPIfR), the Onsala Space Observatory (OSO) and the European Southern Observatory (ESO).
These partners are constructing and will operate a modified ALMA prototype antenna as a single dish on the high altitude site of Llano Chajnantor, in Chile.
"Cryoconnect is proud of its involvement in this experiment", said Roy Blake, Business Development Manager at Tekdata.
"The APEX telescope will only support a limited number of experiments, which makes the APEX-SZ contribution even more remarkable".
Observing the cosmos with the APEX telescope will allow for the study of warm and cold dust in star-forming regions, both in our own Milky Way and in distant galaxies in the young universe.
High frequency spectral lines enable the exploration of the structure and chemistry of planetary atmospheres, dying stars, molecular clouds and the inner regions of starburst galaxies.
The project will address issues from the vast scales of the structure of the Universe down to the physics and chemistry of comets.
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