TY - JOUR
T1 - The 2023 Flight of the Faint Intergalactic-medium Redshifted Emission Balloon
AU - Miles, Drew M.
AU - Picouet, Vincent
AU - Lin, Zeren
AU - Cevallos-Aleman, Ignacio
AU - Schiminovich, David
AU - Bray, Nicolas
AU - Chevrier, Charles Antoine
AU - Davis, Greyson
AU - Hamden, Erika
AU - Hoadley, Keri
AU - Martin, D. Christopher
AU - Milliard, Bruno
AU - Montel, Johan
AU - Valls-Gabaud, David
AU - Agarwal, Simran
AU - Balard, Philippe
AU - Blanchard, Patrick
AU - Bradley, Harrison
AU - Chung, Haeun
AU - Crabill, Marty
AU - Aguirre, Fernando Cruz
AU - Deng, Xihan
AU - Harmand, Fabien
AU - Hourtolle, Catherine
AU - Jones, Olivia
AU - Kerkeser, Nazende I.
AU - Khan, Aafaque R.
AU - Kyne, Gillian
AU - Li, Jessica S.
AU - Melso, Nicole
AU - Nikzad, Shouleh
AU - Richard, Julie
AU - Sitaram, Meghna
AU - Termini, Jared
AU - Valdivia, Jean Noel
AU - Vibert, Didier
AU - Werneken, Matthew
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2025. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.
PY - 2025/6/1
Y1 - 2025/6/1
N2 - The second iteration of the Faint Intergalactic-medium Redshifted Emission Balloon (FIREBall-2) is a UV multiobject spectrograph designed to detect emission from the circumgalactic and circumquasar medium at low redshifts (z < 1). The FIREBall-2 instrument uses a zero-pressure suborbital balloon to access a stratospheric transmission window centered around 205 nm. Following the payload’s first flight in 2018, several refurbishments and modifications were made to the instrument and telescope to prepare for additional flight opportunities. Here we present an overview of upgrades and improvements made since the previous flight and discuss the 2023 field campaign, which culminated in a flight from Fort Sumner, New Mexico, in 2023 September. The flight was terminated early, prior to science observations; we report here the performance of the instrument in ground calibrations, the flight plan and timeline of events, and the in-flight guidance performance. We also discuss the limitations encountered in 2023 and the future outlook for FIREBall-2.
AB - The second iteration of the Faint Intergalactic-medium Redshifted Emission Balloon (FIREBall-2) is a UV multiobject spectrograph designed to detect emission from the circumgalactic and circumquasar medium at low redshifts (z < 1). The FIREBall-2 instrument uses a zero-pressure suborbital balloon to access a stratospheric transmission window centered around 205 nm. Following the payload’s first flight in 2018, several refurbishments and modifications were made to the instrument and telescope to prepare for additional flight opportunities. Here we present an overview of upgrades and improvements made since the previous flight and discuss the 2023 field campaign, which culminated in a flight from Fort Sumner, New Mexico, in 2023 September. The flight was terminated early, prior to science observations; we report here the performance of the instrument in ground calibrations, the flight plan and timeline of events, and the in-flight guidance performance. We also discuss the limitations encountered in 2023 and the future outlook for FIREBall-2.
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U2 - 10.3847/1538-4365/add15c
DO - 10.3847/1538-4365/add15c
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:105008144743
SN - 0067-0049
VL - 278
JO - Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series
JF - Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series
IS - 2
M1 - 58
ER -