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Published July 30, 2010 | Version Published
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FIREBALL: the first ultraviolet fiber fed spectrograph

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  • 1. ROR icon Columbia University
  • 2. ROR icon Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille
  • 3. ROR icon California Institute of Technology

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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 warm hot intergalactic medium, until now detected primarily in absorption. FIREBall is a pathfinding mission to test new technology and make new constraints on the temperature and density of this gas. FIREBall has flown twice, the most recent flight (June 2009) a fully functioning science flight. Here we describe the spectrograph design, current setup, and calibration measurements from the campaign.

Additional Information

© 2010 SPIE. The material is based upon work supported by NASA under award No. NNX08AO39G. The FIREBALL collaboration also acknowledges support from CNES, LAM and CNRS.

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NASA
NNX08AO39G
Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES)
Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM)
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

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Proceedings of SPIE
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7732