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The Cryostat is designed to cool the lenses to about 4K and the bolometers down to 280mK. This is accomplished with two cryogenic technologies. A pulse-tube cooler is used to bring the cold plate to about 4K, then a helium sorption cooler brings the detector to 280mK.