FIREBall-2 UV balloon telescope in-flight calibration system

Jessica S. Li; Nazende I. Kerkeser; Aafaque R. Khan; Simran Agarwal; Olivia Jones; Erika Hamden; Trenton Brendel; Haeun Chung; Vincent Picouet; David Schiminovich; Drew M. Miles; Keri Hoadley; Ignacio Cevallos-Aleman; Meghna Sitaram; Zeren Lin; Harrison Bradley; D. Christopher Martin; Marty Crabill; Fernando Cruz Aguirre; Charles Antoine Chevrier; Philippe Balard; Patrick Blanchard; Nicolas Bray; Greyson Davis; Xihan Deng; Fabien Harmand; Catherine Hourtolle; Gillian Kyne; Nicole Melso; Johan Montel; Shouleh Nikzad; Alain Peus; Julie Richard; Jared Termini; Jean Noel Valdivia; David Valls-Gabaud; Didier Vibert; Matthew Werneken

doi:10.1117/1.JATIS.10.3.035002

FIREBall-2 UV balloon telescope in-flight calibration system

Jessica S. Li, Nazende I. Kerkeser, Aafaque R. Khan, Simran Agarwal, Olivia Jones, Erika Hamden, Trenton Brendel, Haeun Chung, Vincent Picouet, David Schiminovich, Drew M. Miles, Keri Hoadley, Ignacio Cevallos-Aleman, Meghna Sitaram, Zeren Lin, Harrison Bradley, D. Christopher Martin, Marty Crabill, Fernando Cruz Aguirre, Charles Antoine ChevrierPhilippe Balard, Patrick Blanchard, Nicolas Bray, Greyson Davis, Xihan Deng, Fabien Harmand, Catherine Hourtolle, Gillian Kyne, Nicole Melso, Johan Montel, Shouleh Nikzad, Alain Peus, Julie Richard, Jared Termini, Jean Noel Valdivia, David Valls-Gabaud, Didier Vibert, Matthew Werneken

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We present the integration of a new calibration system into the Faint Intergalactic-medium Redshifted Emission Balloon-2 (FIREBall-2), which added in-flight calibration capability for the recent September 2023 flight. This system is composed of a calibration source box containing zinc and deuterium lamp sources, focusing optics, electronics, sensors, and a fiber-fed calibration cap with an optical shutter mounted on the spectrograph tank. We discuss how the calibration cap is optimized to be evenly illuminated through non-sequential modeling for the near-UV (191 to 221 nm) for spectrograph slit mask position calibration, electron multiplying charged-coupled device (EMCCD) gain amplification verification, and wavelength calibration. Then, we present the pre-flight performance testing results of the calibration system and their implications for in-flight measurements. FIREBall-2 flew in 2023, but did not collect calibration data due to early termination of the flight.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	035002
Journal	Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems
Volume	10
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.10.3.035002
State	Published - Jul 1 2024

Keywords

balloon telescope
calibration
FIREBall
ultraviolet

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Control and Systems Engineering
Instrumentation
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Mechanical Engineering
Space and Planetary Science

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Li, J. S., Kerkeser, N. I., Khan, A. R., Agarwal, S., Jones, O., Hamden, E., Brendel, T., Chung, H., Picouet, V., Schiminovich, D., Miles, D. M., Hoadley, K., Cevallos-Aleman, I., Sitaram, M., Lin, Z., Bradley, H., Christopher Martin, D., Crabill, M., Aguirre, F. C., ... Werneken, M. (2024). FIREBall-2 UV balloon telescope in-flight calibration system. Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, 10(3), Article 035002. https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.10.3.035002

Li, JS, Kerkeser, NI, Khan, AR, Agarwal, S, Jones, O, Hamden, E, Brendel, T, Chung, H, Picouet, V, Schiminovich, D, Miles, DM, Hoadley, K, Cevallos-Aleman, I, Sitaram, M, Lin, Z, Bradley, H, Christopher Martin, D, Crabill, M, Aguirre, FC, Chevrier, CA, Balard, P, Blanchard, P, Bray, N, Davis, G, Deng, X, Harmand, F, Hourtolle, C, Kyne, G, Melso, N, Montel, J, Nikzad, S, Peus, A, Richard, J, Termini, J, Valdivia, JN, Valls-Gabaud, D, Vibert, D & Werneken, M 2024, 'FIREBall-2 UV balloon telescope in-flight calibration system', Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, vol. 10, no. 3, 035002. https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.10.3.035002

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