Overview, design, and flight results from SuperBIT: a high-resolution, wide-field, visible-to-near-UV balloon-borne astronomical telescope
| Autor: | Romualdez, L. Javier, Benton, Steven J., Brown, Anthony M., Clark, Paul, Damaren, Christopher J., Eifler, Tim, Fraisse, Aurelien A., Galloway, Mathew N., Hartley, John W., Jauzac, Mathilde, Jones, William C., Li, Lun, Luu, Thuy Vy T., Massey, Richard J., Mccleary, Jacqueline, Netterfield, C. Barth, Redmond, Susan, Rhodes, Jason D., Schmoll, Jürgen, Tam, Sut-Ieng |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| Popis: | Balloon-borne astronomy is a unique tool that allows for a level of image stability and significantly reduced atmospheric interference without the often prohibitive cost and long development time-scale that are characteristic of space-borne facility-class instruments. The Super-pressure Balloon-borne Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT) is a wide-field imager designed to provide 0.02" image stability over a 0.5 degree field-of-view for deep exposures within the visible-to-near-UV (300-900 um). As such, SuperBIT is a suitable platform for a wide range of balloon-borne observations, including solar and extrasolar planetary spectroscopy as well as resolved stellar populations and distant galaxies. We report on the overall payload design and instrumentation methodologies for SuperBIT as well as telescope and image stability results from two test flights. Prospects for the SuperBIT project are outlined with an emphasis on the development of a fully operational, three-month science flight from New Zealand in 2020. Comment: 15 pages, 7 figures, submitted to and presented at the SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018 conference (Austin, TX). arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1608.02502 |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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