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astro-ph.IM2026
Liquid nitrogen pre-cooling system for ELT instruments utilizing additively manufactured heat exchangers, integrated temperature and liquid level control
Anastasios Aretos, Younes Chahid, Lee Chapman +5
Using liquid Nitrogen as the cryogenic fluid for pre-cooling purposes is almost ubiquitous across modern observatories. That method tends to be inefficient since it relies on the e…
astro-ph.IM2025
Additive manufacturing in aluminium of a primary mirror for a CubeSat application: manufacture, testing and evaluation
Ilhan Aziz, Younes Chahid, Jennifer Keogh +16
Additive manufacturing (AM; 3D Printing), a process which creates a part layer-by-layer, has the potential to improve upon conventional lightweight mirror manufacturing techniques,…
astro-ph.IM2024
Design, manufacture and metrology of additively manufactured, metal and ceramic lightweight circular mirror prototypes
Greg Lister, Rhys Tuck, Younes Chahid +9
Spaced-based mirrors are a developing use-case for Additive Manufacturing (AM), the process that builds a part layer-by-layer. The increased geometric freedom results in novel and…