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FIREBALL: the first ultraviolet fiber fed spectrograph
Abstract
FIREBall (the Faint Intergalactic Redshifted Emission Balloon) is a balloon-borne 1m telescope coupled to an ultraviolet fiber-fed spectrograph. FIREBall is designed to study the faint and diffuse emission of the warm hot intergalactic medium, until now detected primarily in absorption. FIREBall is a pathfinding mission to test new technology and make new constraints on the temperature and density of this gas. FIREBall has flown twice, the most recent flight (June 2009) a fully functioning science flight. Here we describe the spectrograph design, current setup, and calibration measurements from the campaign.
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© 2010 SPIE. The material is based upon work supported by NASA under award No. NNX08AO39G. The FIREBALL collaboration also acknowledges support from CNES, LAM and CNRS.Attached Files
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- NNX08AO39G
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- Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES)
- Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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