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Procedures and Manuals
- Maintenance of the LN2 transfer lines and LN2 storage tanks (JL.Lizon,10/2000)
- Technical operating manual of the NAOS continuous flow cryostat (visible WFS, JL.Lizon,05/1999)
- MACAO-VLTI assembly integration and testing procedure (S.Tordo,C.Dupuy,03/2001)
- SINFONI alignment procedure (S.Tordo,10/2005)
- SINFONI AO-Re-integration report (H.Bonnet,01/2005)
- MAD alignment procedure (S.Tordo,05/2003)
- VIMOS user's manual (O.Lefevre,10/2000)
- ISAAC maintenance manual - Optics, Mechanics, Vacuum and Cryogenics (JL.Lizon,07/2000)
- ISAAC handling and vacuum cryogenic operating manual (JL.Lizon,01/1999)
- LN2 distribution for AMBER - Operating manual (JL.Lizon,12/2000)
- LN2 distribution for FINITO - Operating manual (JL.Lizon,10/2000)
- LN2 distribution for LISA - Operating manual (JL.Lizon,04/2002)
- LN2 distribution for MIDI - Operating manual (JL.Lizon,10/2000)
Cryogenics and Cooling Standards
- Vacuum and Cryogenics standard components (JL.Lizon,04/2005)
- Technical recommendations and standard components for the cooling fluid system of instruments (JL.Lizon,09/2004)
- Liquid nitrogen standard spare part catalog (JL.Lizon,05/2004)
- Liquid nitrogen connection interface standards (JL.Lizon,2000)
- Nitrogen gaz exhaust connection interface (JL.Lizon,10/2000)
Design and Test Reports
- Fibre feed through for vacuum systems - design report (JL.Lizon,G.Avila,12/2002)
- HARPS detector unit - Mechanical design report (JL.Lizon,11/2000)
- Giraffe grating unit test report (JL.Lizon,R.Lecouzere)
Miscellaneous
Articles
- Low-vibration high-cooling power 2-stage cryocoolers for ground-based astronomical instrumentation(G.Jakob, 2010)
- Advanced high-cooling power 2-stage Gifford-McMahonrefrigerator systems(G.Jakob, 2010)
- Integration and alignment of adaptive optics system:10 years of experience at the VLT (S.Tordo, 2010)
- Different ways of reducing vibrations induced by cryogenic instruments (J.Lizon, 2010)
- A very accurate filter wheel for a large field IR imager (J.Lizon, 2010)
- Liquid nitrogen pre-cooling of large infrared instrument at ESO (J.Lizon, 2010)
- An hybrid liquid nitrogen system for the coolingof the ESO OmegaCAM detector (J.Lizon, 2010)
- First concept for the E-ELT cryogenic Infrastructure (J.Lizon, 2010)
- LN2 continuous Flow Cryostats, a compact vibration free cooling system for single to multiple detector systems (J.Lizon, 2010)
- ASM: scaled down Active Segmented Mirror for the Phasing Experiment (C.Dupuy, 2008)
- Mounting of large lenses in infrared instruments (JL.Lizon, Gotthard Huster,2006)
- ASM: scaled down Active Segmented Mirror developed to simulate a segmented primary mirror (C.Dupuy, 2006)
- The REMIR Cryogenics Restyling (F. Vitali, JL.Lizon,2006)
- Rotating feed-through for cryogenic fluids (JL.Lizon,1998)
- Selection, preparation and lubrication of middle size ball bearings for infrared instruments (JL.Lizon)
- Cooling system for OmegaCAM CCD mosaic (JL.Lizon,A.Silber)
- Vacuum Technology as a vital support for astronomy (J.Lizon,10/2000)
- Sinfoni Messenger article for first light (H.Bonnet,09/2004)
- CRIRES SPIE article
- CRIRES messenger 2006
- OmegaCAM, the 16Kx16K CCD camera for the VLT survey telescope (K.Kuijken)
- MACAO article at SPIE-2004 (R.Arsenault,2004)
- Comparison between various commercial lubricants at cryogenic temperature in a vacuum (J.Lizon,1990)
- High thermal conductivity ball bearings for infrared instruments (J.Lizon,1990)