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This is a
system diagram of the DSOS.
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The CSO
consists in part of a 10.4 meter primary mirror. The dish has 84 hexagonal panels made of aluminum epoxied
onto a honeycomb backing that is mounted on a steel backing structure.
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Simply by using
the properties of the in-place steel rod standoff itself, the DSOS expands
and contracts, without mechanical gears. The system does no harm to the
original mechanical tune of the primary. Turn the DSOS off and the dish goes back to it s original
state.
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There are 99
standoff assemblies which I will show in the next slides. Wiring and
plumbing were routed to distribute the weight of the material as evenly as
possible on the backing structure.
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I split the
dish into 4 quadrants. The different colored lines indicate the different
quadrants.
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The electronics
are housed in 3 racks seen on the right.
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The
refrigerated baths, pumps, manifolds, and coolant lines, are shown here on
both sides of the dish.
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~Melanie Leong~
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