SuperBIT Superpressure Flight Instrument Overview and Performance: Near diffraction-limited Astronomical Imaging from the Stratosphere

Authors: Gill, Ajay S., Benton, Steven J., Damaren, Christopher J., Everett, Spencer W., Fraisse, Aurelien A., Hartley, John W., Harvey, David, Holder, Bradley, Huff, Eric M., Jauzac, Mathilde, Jones, William C., Lagattuta, David, Leung, Jason S. -Y., Li, Lun, Luu, Thuy Vy T., Massey, Richard, McCleary, Jacqueline E., Nagy, Johanna M., Netterfield, C. Barth, Paracha, Emaad, Redmond, Susan F., Rhodes, Jason D., Robertson, Andrew, Romualdez, L. Javier, Schmoll, Jürgen, Shaaban, Mohamed M., Sirks, Ellen L., Vassilakis, Georgios N., Vitorelliand, André Z.

Source: Volume 168, Number 2, Pages 85, 2024, Astronomical Journal

Subject Terms: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2408.01847

From SuperBIT to GigaBIT: Informing next-generation balloon-borne telescope design with Fine Guidance System flight data

Authors: Voyer, Philippe, Benton, Steven J., Damaren, Christopher J., Everett, Spencer W., Fraisse, Aurelien A., Gill, Ajay S., Hartley, John W., Harvey, David, Henderson, Michael, Holder, Bradley, Huff, Eric M., Jauzac, Mathilde, Jones, William C., Lagattuta, David, Leung, Jason S. -Y., Li, Lun, Luu, Thuy Vy T., Massey, Richard, McCleary, Jacqueline E., Nagy, Johanna M., Netterfield, C. Barth, Paracha, Emaad, Redmond, Susan F., Rhodes, Jason D., Robertson, Andrew, Romualdez, L. Javier, Schmoll, Jürgen, Shaaban, Mohamed M., Sirks, Ellen L., Vassilakis, Georgios N., Vitorelli, André Z.

Subject Terms: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2407.10103

Data downloaded via parachute from a NASA super-pressure balloon

Authors: Sirks, Ellen L., Massey, Richard, Gill, Ajay S., Anderson, Jason, Benton, Steven J., Brown, Anthony M., Clark, Paul, English, Joshua, Everett, Spencer W., Fraisse, Aurelien A., Franco, Hugo, Hartley, John W., Harvey, David, Holder, Bradley, Hunter, Andrew, Huff, Eric M., Hynous, Andrew, Jauzac, Mathilde, Jones, William C., Joyce, Nikky, Kennedy, Duncan, Lagattuta, David, Leung, Jason S. -Y., Li, Lun, Lishman, Stephen, Luu, Thuy Vy T., McCleary, Jacqueline E., Nagy, Johanna M., Netterfield, C. Barth, Paracha, Emaad, Purcaru, Robert, Redmond, Susan F., Rhodes, Jason D., Robertson, Andrew, Romualdez, L. Javier, Roth, Sarah, Salter, Robert, Schmoll, Jurgen, Shaaban, Mohamed M., Smith, Roger, Smith, Russell, Tam, Sut Ieng, Vassilakis, Georgios N.

Source: Aerospace 2023, 10, 960

Subject Terms: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Physics - Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2311.08602

Lensing in the Blue II: Estimating the Sensitivity of Stratospheric Balloons to Weak Gravitational Lensing

Authors: McCleary, Jacqueline E., Everett, Spencer W., Shaaban, Mohamed M., Gill, Ajay S., Vassilakis, Georgios N., Huff, Eric M., Massey, Richard J., Benton, Steven J., Brown, Anthony M., Clark, Paul, Holder, Bradley, Fraisse, Aurelien A., Jauzac, Mathilde, Jones, William C., Lagattuta, David, Leung, Jason S. -Y., Li, Lun, Luu, Thuy Vy T., Nagy, Johanna M., Netterfield, C. Barth, Paracha, Emaad, Redmond, Susan F., Rhodes, Jason D., Schmoll, J\''urgen, Sirks, Ellen, Tam, Sut Ieng

Subject Terms: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2307.03295

From SuperBIT to GigaBIT: informing next-generation balloon-borne telescope design with fine guidance system flight data

Authors: Marshall, Heather K., Spyromilio, Jason, Usuda, Tomonori, Voyer, Philippe, Benton, Steven J., Damaren, Christopher J., Everett, Spencer W., Fraisse, Aurelien A., Gill, Ajay S., Hartley, John W., Harvey, David, Henderson, Michael, Holder, Bradley, Huff, Eric M., Jauzac, Mathilde, Jones, William C., Lagattuta, David, Leung, Jason S.-Y., Li, Lun, Luu, Thuy Vy T., Massey, Richard, McCleary, Jacqueline E., Nagy, Johanna M., Netterfield, C. Barth, Paracha, Emaad, Redmond, Susan F., Rhodes, Jason D., Robertson, Andrew, Romualdez, L. Javier, Schmoll, Jürgen, Shaaban, Mohamed M., Sirks, Ellen L., Vassilakis, Georgios N., Vitorelli, André Z.

Source: Proceedings of SPIE; August 2024, Vol. 13094 Issue: 1 p130944Z-130944Z-13, 12963470p

To the stratosphere and beyond! Super-pressure balloon flight overview for the Super-pressure Balloon-borne Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT)

Authors: Marshall, Heather K., Spyromilio, Jason, Usuda, Tomonori, Redmond, Susan F., Benton, Steven J., Damaren, Christopher J., Everett, Spencer W., Fraisse, Aurelien A., Gill, Ajay S., Hartley, John W., Harvey, David, Holder, Bradley, Huff, Eric M., Jauzac, Mathilde, Jones, William C., Lagattuta, David, Leung, Jason S.-Y., Li, Lun, Luu, Thuy Vy T., Massey, Richard, McCleary, Jacqueline E., Nagy, Johanna M., Netterfield, C. Barth, Paracha, Emaad, Rhodes, Jason D., Robertson, Andrew, Romualdez, L. Javier, Schmoll, Jürgen, Shaaban, Mohamed M., Sirks, Ellen L., Vassilakis, Georgios N., Vitorelli, André Z.

Source: Proceedings of SPIE; August 2024, Vol. 13094 Issue: 1 p130942P-130942P-15, 12963274p