FIREBall-2: advancing TRL while doing proof-of-concept astrophysics on a suborbital platform
| Autor: | Hamden, Erika T., Hoadley, Keri, Martin, D. Christopher, Schiminovich, David, Milliard, Bruno, Nikzad, Shouleh, Augustin, Ramona, Balard, Philippe, Blanchard, Patrick, Bray, Nicolas, Crabill, Marty, Evrard, Jean, Gomes, Albert, Grange, Robert, Gross, Julia, Jewell, April, Kyne, Gillian, Limon, Michele, Lingner, Nicole, Matuszewski, Mateusz, Melso, Nicole, Mirc, Frederi, Montel, Johan, Ong, Hwei Ru, O'Sullivan, Donal, Pascal, Sandrine, Perot, Etienne, Picouet, Vincent, Saccoccio, Muriel, Smiley, Brian, Soors, Xavier, Tapie, Pierre, Vibert, Didier, Zenone, Isabelle, Zorilla, Jose |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| Popis: | Here we discuss advances in UV technology over the last decade, with an emphasis on photon counting, low noise, high efficiency detectors in sub-orbital programs. We focus on the use of innovative UV detectors in a NASA astrophysics balloon telescope, FIREBall-2, which successfully flew in the Fall of 2018. The FIREBall-2 telescope is designed to make observations of distant galaxies to understand more about how they evolve by looking for diffuse hydrogen in the galactic halo. The payload utilizes a 1.0-meter class telescope with an ultraviolet multi-object spectrograph and is a joint collaboration between Caltech, JPL, LAM, CNES, Columbia, the University of Arizona, and NASA. The improved detector technology that was tested on FIREBall-2 can be applied to any UV mission. We discuss the results of the flight and detector performance. We will also discuss the utility of sub-orbital platforms (both balloon payloads and rockets) for testing new technologies and proof-of-concept scientific ideas Comment: Submitted to the Proceedings of SPIE, Defense + Commercial Sensing (SI19) |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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