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EAS Publications Series
Volume 25, 2007
1st ARENA Conference on "Large Astronomical Infrastructures at CONCORDIA, prospects and constraints for Antarctic Optical/IR Astronomy"
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| Page(s) | 77 - 80 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/eas:2007076 | |
| Published online | 23 May 2007 | |
N. Epchtein and M. Candidi (eds)
EAS Publications Series, 25 (2007) 77-80
GIVRE: A Protection Against Frost Deposit on Polar Instruments
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Service d'Astrophysique/DAPNIA/DSM, CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Service d'Ingénierie des Systèmes/DAPNIA/DSM, CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Institut Paul Emile Victor/Technopole Brest-Iroise, BP. 75, 29280 Plouzané, France
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Laboratoire Universitaire d'Astronomie de Nice/UNSA, Parc Valrose, 06108 Nice Cedex 2, France
The CEA, in coordination with IPEV and LUAN, will prepare an experiment to study frost formation on surfaces in radiative cooling in the winter. This experiment has been shipped to be installed at Concordia before the 2007 winter period. It will be controlled from Concordia winterover personal, through PC server that will locally archive data from WEBcams and several local heat regulators. This experiment will be used to give recipes on the way to compensate with heaters the radiative cooling from the sky and maintain instrument surfaces at temperature just above icing conditions. The individual regulators proposed in this experiment will be usable as standalone ice protection systems for existing and future telescopes.
© EAS, EDP Sciences, 2007