End-to-end ground calibration and in-flight performance of the FIREBall-2 instrument
- Creators
- Picouet, Vincent
- Milliard, Bruno
- Kyne, Gillian
- Vibert, Didier
- Schiminovich, David
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Martin, Christopher
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Hamden, Erika
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Hoadley, Keri
- Montel, Johan
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Melso, Nicole
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O'Sullivan, Donal
- Evrard, Jean
- Perot, Etienne
- Grange, Robert
- Nikzad, Shouleh
- Balard, Philippe
- Blanchard, Patrick
- Mirc, Frederi
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Bray, Nicolas
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Jewell, April
- Quiret, Samuel
Abstract
The payload of the Faint Intergalactic Redshifted Emission Balloon (FIREBall-2), the second generation of the FIREBall instrument (PI: C. Martin, Caltech), has been calibrated and launched from the NASA Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. FIREBall-2 was launched for the first time on the September 22, 2018, and the payload performed the very first multi-object acquisition from space using a multi-object spectrograph. Our performance-oriented paper presents the calibration and last ground adjustments of FIREBall-2, the in-flight performance assessed based on the flight data, and the predicted instrument's ultimate sensitivity. This analysis predicts that future flights of FIREBall-2 should be able to detect the HI Lyα resonance line in galaxies at z ∼ 0.67, but will find it challenging to spatially resolve the circumgalactic medium.
Additional Information
© 2020 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). Paper 20091 received Jun. 22, 2020; accepted for publication Oct. 19, 2020; published online Nov. 13, 2020. We acknowledge CNES and CNRS for supporting the French side of the FIREBall collaboration and the NASA Grant NNX17AC56G obtained through the APRA program, which supports the FIREBall-2 mission in the US. Vincent Picouet acknowledges CNES and NASA for the funding of his PhD at Aix-Marseille Universite and Columbia University. Ground support was provided by the Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility (CSBF) during the fall 2017/2018 FIREBall-2 campaigns. The JPL detector team gratefully acknowledges the collaborative effort with Teledyne-e2v and contributions from Samuel R. Cheng and Todd J. Jones at JPL. This work is performed in part at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with NASA.Attached Files
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- 106698
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20201117-101716161
- Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
- NNX17AC56G
- NASA
- NASA/JPL/Caltech
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2020-11-17Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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