FIREBall-2: The Faint Intergalactic Medium Redshifted Emission Balloon Telescope
| العنوان: | FIREBall-2: The Faint Intergalactic Medium Redshifted Emission Balloon Telescope |
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| المؤلفون: | Pierre Tapie, April D. Jewell, D. Christopher Martin, Jean Evrard, Gillian Kyne, Vincent Picouet, Xavier Soors, Frederi Mirc, Jose Zorilla, Mateusz Matuszewski, Keri Hoadley, Nicole Lingner, Philippe Balard, P. Blanchard, Muriel Saccoccio, Nicolas Bray, Marty Crabill, Nicole Melso, Etienne Pirot, Donal O'Sullivan, Julia Blue Bird, Hwei Ru Ong, Shouleh Nikzad, Isabelle Zenone, David Schiminovich, Johan Montel, Robert Grange, Albert Gomes, Bruno Milliard, Michele Limon, Ramona Augustin, D. Vibert, Sandrine Pascal, Erika T. Hamden |
| سنة النشر: | 2020 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Physics, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Stray light, Payload, Astronomy, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Galaxy, Redshift, law.invention, Telescope, Space and Planetary Science, law, Ultraviolet astronomy, 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Spectrograph, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Noise (radio), 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| الوصف: | The Faint Intergalactic Medium Redshifted Emission Balloon (FIREBall) is a mission designed to observe faint emission from the circumgalactic medium of moderate redshift (z~0.7) galaxies for the first time. FIREBall observes a component of galaxies that plays a key role in how galaxies form and evolve, likely contains a significant amount of baryons, and has only recently been observed at higher redshifts in the visible. Here we report on the 2018 flight of the FIREBall-2 Balloon telescope, which occurred on September 22nd, 2018 from Fort Sumner, New Mexico. The flight was the culmination of a complete redesign of the spectrograph from the original FIREBall fiber-fed IFU to a wide-field multi-object spectrograph. The flight was terminated early due to a hole in the balloon, and our original science objectives were not achieved. The overall sensitivity of the instrument and telescope was 90,000 LU, due primarily to increased noise from stray light. We discuss the design of the FIREBall-2 spectrograph, modifications from the original FIREBall payload, and provide an overview of the performance of all systems. We were able to successfully flight test a new pointing control system, a UV-optimized, delta-doped and coated EMCCD, and an aspheric grating. The FIREBall-2 team is rebuilding the payload for another flight attempt in the Fall of 2021, delayed from 2020 due to COVID-19. 23 Pages, 14 Figures, Accepted for Publication in ApJ |
| اللغة: | English |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::a6ae8975036bb28d896b3a1c7cd934d4 http://arxiv.org/abs/2007.08528 |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi.dedup.....a6ae8975036bb28d896b3a1c7cd934d4 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
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