TY - JOUR
T1 - End-To-end ground calibration and in-flight performance of the FIREBall-2 instrument
AU - Picouet, Vincent
AU - Milliard, Bruno
AU - Kyne, Gillian
AU - Vibert, Didier
AU - Schiminovich, David
AU - Martin, Christopher
AU - Hamden, Erika
AU - Hoadley, Keri
AU - Montel, Johan
AU - Melso, Nicole
AU - O'Sullivan, Donal
AU - Evrard, Jean
AU - Perot, Etienne
AU - Grange, Robert
AU - Nikzad, Shouleh
AU - Balard, Philippe
AU - Blanchard, Patrick
AU - Mirc, Frederi
AU - Bray, Nicolas
AU - Jewell, April
AU - Quiret, Samuel
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE).
PY - 2020/10/1
Y1 - 2020/10/1
N2 - 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 Ly? resonance line in galaxies at z ? 0.67, but will find it challenging to spatially resolve the circumgalactic medium.
AB - 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 Ly? resonance line in galaxies at z ? 0.67, but will find it challenging to spatially resolve the circumgalactic medium.
KW - balloon borne instrument
KW - calibration
KW - electron multiplying CCD
KW - multi-object spectrograph
KW - space mission
KW - ultraviolet
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U2 - 10.1117/1.JATIS.6.4.044004
DO - 10.1117/1.JATIS.6.4.044004
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85098657084
SN - 2329-4124
VL - 6
JO - Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems
JF - Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems
IS - 4
M1 - 044004
ER -