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Thermal design and performance of the balloon-borne large aperture submillimeter telescope for polarimetry BLASTPol

We present the thermal model of the Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for Polarimetry (BLASTPol). This instrument was successfully flown in two circumpolar flights from McMurdo, Antarctica in 2010 and 2012. During these…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 J. D. Soler , P. A. R. Ade , F. E. Angilè , S. J. Benton , M. J. Devlin , B. Dober , L. M. Fissel , Y. Fukui , N. Galitzki , N. N. Gandilo , J. Klein , A. L. Korotkov , T. G. Matthews , L. Moncelsi , A. Mroczkowski , C. B. Netterfield , G. Novak , D. Nutter , E. Pascale , F. Poidevin , G. Savini , D. Scott , J. A. Shariff , N. E. Thomas , M. D. Truch , C. E. Tucker , G. S. Tucker , D. Ward-Thompson

The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for Polarimetry-BLASTPol: Performance and results from the 2012 Antarctic flight

The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for Polarimetry (BLASTPol) is a suborbital mapping experiment, designed to study the role played by magnetic fields in the star formation process. BLASTPol observes polarized light…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 N. Galitzki , P. A. R. Ade , F. E. Angilé , S. J. Benton , M. J. Devlin , B. Dober , L. M. Fissel , Y. Fukui , N. N. Gandilo , J. Klein , A. L. Korotkov , T. G. Matthews , L. Moncelsi , C. B. Netterfield , G. Novak , D. Nutter , E. Pascale , F. Poidevin , G. Savini , D. Scott , J. A. Shariff , J. D. Soler , C. E. Tucker , G. S. Tucker , D. Ward-Thompson

The Next Generation BLAST Experiment

The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for Polarimetry (BLASTPol) was a suborbital experiment designed to map magnetic fields in order to study their role in star formation processes. BLASTPol made detailed polarization…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-13 Nicholas Galitzki , Peter A. R. Ade , Francesco E. Angilè , Peter Ashton , James A. Beall , Dan Becker , Kristi J. Bradford , George Che , Hsiao-Mei Cho , Mark J. Devlin , Bradley J. Dober , Laura M. Fissel , Yasuo Fukui , Jiansong Gao , Christopher E. Groppi , Seth Hillbrand , Gene C. Hilton , Johannes Hubmayr , Kent D. Irwin , Jeffrey Klein , Jeff Van Lanen , Dale Li , Zhi-Yun Li , Nathan P. Lourie , Hamdi Mani , Peter G. Martin , Philip Mauskopf , Fumitaka Nakamura , Giles Novak , David P. Pappas , Enzo Pascale , Giampaolo Pisano , Fabio P. Santos , Giorgio Savini , Douglas Scott , Sara Stanchfield , Carole Tucker , Joel N. Ullom , Matthew Underhill , Michael R. Vissers , Derek Ward-Thompson

The next-generation BLASTPol experiment

The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for Polarimetry (BLASTPol) is a suborbital mapping experiment designed to study the role magnetic fields play in star formation. BLASTPol has had two science flights from McMurdo…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Bradley Dober , Peter A. R. Ade , Peter Ashton , Francesco E. Angilè , James A. Beall , Dan Becker , Kristi J. Bradford , George Che , Hsiao-Mei Cho , Mark J. Devlin , Laura M. Fissel , Yasuo Fukui , Nicholas Galitzki , Jiansong Gao , Christopher E. Groppi , Seth Hillbrand , Gene C. Hilton , Johannes Hubmayr , Kent D. Irwin , Jeffrey Klein , Jeff Van Lanen , Dale Li , Zhi-Yun Li , Nathan P. Lourie , Hamdi Mani , Peter G. Martin , Philip Mauskopf , Fumitaka Nakamura , Giles Novak , David P. Pappas , Enzo Pascale , Fabio P. Santos , Giorgio Savini , Douglas Scott , Sara Stanchfield , Joel N. Ullom , Matthew Underhill , Michael R. Vissers , Derek Ward-Thompson

The balloon-borne large-aperture submillimeter telescope for polarimetry: BLAST-Pol

The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for Polarimetry (BLAST-Pol) is a suborbital mapping experiment designed to study the role played by magnetic fields in the star formation process. BLAST-Pol is the reconstructed BLAST…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Laura M. Fissel , Peter A. R. Ade , Francesco E. Angile , Steven J. Benton , Edward L. Chapin , Mark J. Devlin , Natalie N. Gandilo , Joshua O. Gundersen , Peter C. Hargrave , David H. Hughes , Jeffrey Klein , Andrei L. Korotkov , Galen Marsden , Tristan G. Matthews , Lorenzo Moncelsi , Tony K. Mroczkowski , C. Barth Netterfield , Giles Novak , Luca Olmi , Enzo Pascale , Giorgio Savini , Douglas Scott , Jamil A. Shariff , Juan Diego Soler , Nicholas E. Thomas , Matthew D. P. Truch , Carole E. Tucker , Gregory S. Tucker , Derek Ward-Thompson , Donald V. Wiebe

The Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for Polarization: BLAST-pol

The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) is a sub-orbital experiment designed to study the process of star formation in local galaxies (including the Milky Way) and in galaxies at cosmological distances. Using a 2-m…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Marsden , P. A. R. Ade , S. Benton , J. J. Bock , E. L. Chapin , J. Chung , M. J. Devlin , S. Dicker , L. Fissel , M. Griffin , J. O. Gundersen , M. Halpern , P. C. Hargrave , D. H. Hughes , J. Klein , A. Korotkov , C. J. MacTavish , P. G. Martin , T. G. Martin , T. G. Matthews , P. Mauskopf , L. Moncelsi , C. B. Netterfield , G. Novak , E. Pascale , L. Olmi , G. Patanchon , M. Rex , G. Savini , D. Scott , C. Semisch , N. Thomas , M. D. P. Truch , C. Tucker , G. S. Tucker , M. P. Viero , D. Ward-Thompson , D. V. Wiebe

Instrumental performance and results from testing of the BLAST-TNG receiver, submillimeter optics, and MKID arrays

Polarized thermal emission from interstellar dust grains can be used to map magnetic fields in star forming molecular clouds and the diffuse interstellar medium (ISM). The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for Polarimetry…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-22 Nicholas Galitzki , Peter Ade , Francesco E. Angile , Peter Ashton , Jason Austermann , Tashalee Billings , George Che , Hsiao-Mei Cho , Kristina Davis , Mark Devlin , Simon Dicker , Bradley J. Dober , Laura M. Fissel , Yasuo Fukui , Jiansong Gao , Samuel Gordon , Christopher E. Groppi , Seth Hillbrand , Gene C. Hilton , Johannes Hubmayr , Kent D. Irwin , Jeffrey Klein , Dale Li , Zhi-Yun Li , Nathan P. Lourie , Ian Lowe , Hamdi Mani , Peter G. Martin , Philip Mauskopf , Christopher McKenney , Federico Nati , Giles Novak , Enzo Pascale , Giampaolo Pisano , Fabio P. Santos , Douglas Scott , Adrian Sinclair , Juan D. Soler , Carole Tucker , Matthew Underhill , Michael Vissers , Paul Williams

Precise Pointing and Stabilization Performance for the Balloon-borne Imaging Testbed (BIT): 2015 Test Flight

Balloon-borne astronomy offers an attractive option for experiments that require precise pointing and attitude stabilization, due to a large reduction in the atmospheric interference observed by ground-based systems as well as the low-cost…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-04 L. J. Romualdez , P. Clark , C. J. Damaren , M. N. Galloway , J. W. Hartley , L. Li , R. J. Massey , C. B. Netterfield

PILOT: a balloon-borne experiment to measure the polarized FIR emission of dust grains in the interstellar medium

Future cosmology space missions will concentrate on measuring the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background, which potentially carries invaluable information about the earliest phases of the evolution of our universe. Such ambitious…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-22 R. Misawa , J-Ph. Bernard , P. Ade , Y. Andre , P. deBernardis , M. Bouzit , M. Charra , B. Crane , J. P. Dubois , C. Engel , M. Griffin , P. Hargrave , B. Leriche , Y. Longval , S. Maes , C. Marty , W. Marty , S. Masi , B. Mot , J. Narbonne , F. Pajot , G. Pisano , N. Ponthieu , I. Ristorcelli , L. Rodriguez , G. Roudil , M. Salatino , G. Savini , C. Tucker

Design and Characterization of a Balloon-Borne Diffraction-Limited Submillimeter Telescope Platform for BLAST-TNG

The Next Generation Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST-TNG) is a submillimeter mapping experiment planned for a 28 day long-duration balloon (LDB) flight from McMurdo Station, Antarctica during the 2018-2019 season.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-28 Nathan P. Lourie , Francisco E. Angile , Peter C. Ashton , Brian Catanzaro , Mark J. Devlin , Simon Dicker , Joy Didier , Bradley Dober , Laura M. Fissel , Nicholas Galitzki , Samuel Gordon , Jeffrey Klein , Ian Lowe , Philip Mauskopf , Federico Nati , Giles Novak , L. Javier Romualdez , Juan D. Soler , Paul A. Williams

Thermal, Structural, and Optical Analysis of a Balloon-Based Imaging System

The Subarcsecond Telescope And BaLloon Experiment, STABLE, is the fine stage of a guidance system for a high-altitude ballooning platform designed to demonstrate subarcsecond pointing stability, over one minute using relatively dim guide…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-15 Michael Borden , Derek Lewis , Hared Ochoa , Laura Jones-Wilson , Sara Susca , Michael Porter , Richard Massey , Paul Clark , Barth Netterfield

BLASTbus electronics: general-purpose readout and control for balloon-borne experiments

We present the second generation BLASTbus electronics. The primary purposes of this system are detector readout, attitude control, and cryogenic housekeeping, for balloon-borne telescopes. Readout of neutron transmutation doped germanium…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 S. J. Benton , P. A. Ade , M. Amiri , F. E. Angilè , J. J. Bock , J. R. Bond , S. A. Bryan , H. C. Chiang , C. R. Contaldi , B. P. Crill , M. J. Devlin , B. Dober , O. P. Doré , C. D. Dowell , M. Farhang , J. P. Filippini , L. M. Fissel , A. A. Fraisse , Y. Fukui , N. Galitzki , A. E. Gambrel , N. N. Gandilo , S. R. Golwala , J. E. Gudmundsson , M. Halpern , M. Hasselfield , G. C. Hilton , W. A. Holmes , V. V. Hristov , K. D. Irwin , W. C. Jones , Z. D. Kermish , J. Klein , A. L. Korotkov , C. L. Kuo , C. J. MacTavish , P. V. Mason , T. G. Matthews , K. G. Megerian , L. Moncelsi , T. A. Morford , T. K. Mroczkowski , J. M. Nagy , C. B. Netterfield , G. Novak , D. Nutter , R. O'Brient , R. W. Ogburn , E. Pascale , F. Poidevin , A. S. Rahlin , C. D. Reintsema , J. E. Ruhl , M. C. Runyan , G. Savini , D. Scott , J. A. Shariff , J. D. Soler , N. E. Thomas , A. Trangsrud , M. D. Truch , C. E. Tucker , G. S. Tucker , R. S. Tucker , A. D. Turner , D. Ward-Thompson , A. C. Weber , D. V. Wiebe , E. Y. Young

Preflight Characterization of the BLAST-TNG Receiver and Detector Arrays

The Next Generation Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST-TNG) is a submillimeter mapping experiment planned for a 28 day long-duration balloon (LDB) flight from McMurdo Station, Antarctica during the 2018-2019 season.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-28 Nathan P. Lourie , Peter A. R. Ade , Francisco E. Angile , Peter C. Ashton , Jason E. Austermann , Mark J. Devlin , Bradley Dober , Nicholas Galitzki , Jiansong Gao , Sam Gordon , Christopher E. Groppi , Jeffrey Klein , Gene C. Hilton , Johannes Hubmayr , Dale Li , Ian Lowe , Hamdi Mani , Philip Mauskopf , Christopher M. McKenney , Federico Nati , Giles Novak , Enzo Pascale , Giampaolo Pisano , Adrian Sinclair , Juan D. Soler , Carole Tucker , Joel Ullom , Michael Vissers , Paul A. Williams

A Constraint on Primordial $B$-Modes from the First Flight of the SPIDER Balloon-Borne Telescope

We present the first linear polarization measurements from the 2015 long-duration balloon flight of SPIDER, an experiment designed to map the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) on degree angular scales. Results from these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-25 SPIDER Collaboration , P. A. R. Ade , M. Amiri , S. J. Benton , A. S. Bergman , R. Bihary , J. J. Bock , J. R. Bond , J. A. Bonetti , S. A. Bryan , H. C. Chiang , C. R. Contaldi , O. Doré , A. J. Duivenvoorden , H. K. Eriksen , M. Farhang , J. P. Filippini , A. A. Fraisse , K. Freese , M. Galloway , A. E. Gambrel , N. N. Gandilo , K. Ganga , R. Gualtieri , J. E. Gudmundsson , M. Halpern , J. Hartley , M. Hasselfield , G. Hilton , W. Holmes , V. V. Hristov , Z. Huang , K. D. Irwin , W. C. Jones , A. Karakci , C. L. Kuo , Z. D. Kermish , J. S. -Y. Leung , S. Li , D. S. Y. Mak , P. V. Mason , K. Megerian , L. Moncelsi , T. A. Morford , J. M. Nagy , C. B. Netterfield , M. Nolta , R. O'Brient , B. Osherson , I. L. Padilla , B. Racine , A. S. Rahlin , C. Reintsema , J. E. Ruhl , M. C. Runyan , T. M. Ruud , J. A. Shariff , E. C. Shaw , C. Shiu , J. D. Soler , X. Song , A. Trangsrud , C. Tucker , R. S. Tucker , A. D. Turner , J. F. van der List , A. C. Weber , I. K. Wehus , S. Wen , D. V. Wiebe , E. Y. Young

A high-resolution pointing system for fast scanning platforms: The EBEX example

The E and B experiment (EBEX) is a balloon-borne telescope designed to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background with 8' resolution employing a gondola scanning with speeds of order degree per second. In January 2013, EBEX…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-11 Joy Didier , Daniel Chapman , Asad Aboobaker , Derek Araujo , Will Grainger , Shaul Hanany , Kyle Helson , Seth Hillbrand , Andrei Korotkov , Michele Limon , Amber Miller , Britt Reichborn-Kjennerud , Ilan Sagiv , Greg Tucker , Yuri Vinokurov

High-accuracy Vision-Based Attitude Estimation System for Air-Bearing Spacecraft Simulators

Air-bearing platforms for simulating the rotational dynamics of satellites require highly precise ground truth systems. Unfortunately, commercial motion capture systems used for this scope are complex and expensive. This paper shows a novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Fabio Ornati , Gianfranco Di Domenico , Paolo Panicucci , Francesco Topputo

Attitude determination for nano-satellites -- II. Dead reckoning with a multiplicative extended Kalman filter

This paper is the second part of a series of studies discussing a novel attitude determination method for nano-satellites. Our approach is based on the utilization of thermal imaging sensors to determine the direction of the Sun and the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-05 János Takátsy , Tamás Bozóki , Gergely Dálya , Kornél Kapás , László Mészáros , András Pál

PILOT balloon-borne experiment in-flight performance

The Polarized Instrument for Long-wavelength Observation of the Tenuous interstellar medium (PILOT) is a balloon-borne experiment aiming at measuring the polarized emission of thermal dust at a wavelength of 240 mm (1.2 THz). A first PILOT…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-08 A. Mangilli , G. Foënard , J. Aumont , A. Hughes , B. Mot , J-Ph. Bernard , A. Lacourt , I. Ristorcelli , Y. Longval , P. Ade , Y. André , L. Bautista , P. deBernardis , O. Boulade , F. Bousqet , M. Bouzit , V. Buttice , M. Charra , B. Crane , E. Doumayrou , J. P. Dubois , C. Engel , M. Griffin , S. Grabarnik , P. Hargrave , R. Laureijs , B. Leriche , S. Maestre , B. Maffei , C. Marty , W. Marty , S. Masi , R. Misawa , J. Montel , L. Montier , J. Narbonne , F. Pajot , E. Pérot , J. Pimentao , G. Pisano , N. Ponthieu , L. Rodriguez , G. Roudil , M. Salatino , G. Savini , O. Simonella , M. Saccoccio , S. Stever , J. Tauber , C. Tibbs , C. Tucker

Performance of the X-Calibur Hard X-Ray Polarimetry Mission during its 2018/19 Long-Duration Balloon Flight

X-Calibur is a balloon-borne telescope that measures the polarization of high-energy X-rays in the 15--50keV energy range. The instrument makes use of the fact that X-rays scatter preferentially perpendicular to the polarization direction.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-27 Quincy Abarr , Banafsheh Beheshtipour , Matthias Beilicke , Richard Bose , Dana Braun , Gianluigi de Geronimo , Paul Dowkontt , Manel Errando , Thomas Gadson , Victor Guarino , Scott Heatwole , Md. Arman Hossen , Nirmal K. Iyer , Fabian Kislat , Mózsi Kiss , Takao Kitaguchi , Henric Krawczynski , R. James Lanzi , Shaorui Li , Lindsey Lisalda , Takashi Okajima , Mark Pearce , Zachary Peterson , Logan Press , Brian Rauch , Garry Simburger , David Stuchlik , Hiromitsu Takahashi , Jason Tang , Nagomi Uchida , Andrew West

Machine Learning-Based Evaluation of Attitude Sensor Characteristics Using Microsatellite Flight Data

Using actual flight data from a 50-cm-class microsatellite whose mission and operations have already been completed, this study re-evaluates satellite attitude determination performance and the error characteristics of onboard attitude…

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