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FIREBALL: the Faint Intergalactic medium Redshifted Emission Balloon: overview and first science flight results
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Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille
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California Institute of Technology
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Columbia University
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Centre National d'Études Spatiales
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Abstract
FIREBALL (the Faint Intergalactic Redshifted Emission Balloon) is a balloon-borne 1m telescope coupled to an ultraviolet fiber-fed spectrograph. FIREBALL is designed to study the faint and diffuse emission of the intergalactic medium, until now detected primarily in absorption. FIREBALL is a path finding mission to test new technology and make new constraints on the temperature and density of this gas. We report on the first successful science flight of FIREBALL, in June 2009, which proved every aspect of the complex instrument performance, and provided the strongest measurements and constraints on IGM emission available from any instrument.
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© 2010 SPIE The International Society for Optical Engineering. The material is based upon work supported by NASA under award No. NNX08AO39G. The FIREBALL collaboration also acknowledges considerable support from CNES, LAM, and CNRS. The FIREBALL flights would not be possible without the many contributions of the Columbia Scientific Ballooning Facility.Attached Files
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Funding
- NASA
- NNX08AO39G
- Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
- Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM)
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- Proceedings of SPIE
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- 7732