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Robust diffraction-limited near-infrared-to-near-ultraviolet wide-field imaging from stratospheric balloon-borne platforms—Super-pressure Balloon-borne Imaging Telescope performance
Jauzac, Mathilde; Tam, Sut-Ieng; Benton, Steven J. +26 more
At a fraction of the total cost of an equivalent orbital mission, scientific balloon-borne platforms, operating above 99.7% of the Earth's atmosphere, offer attractive, competitive, and effective observational capabilities—namely, space-like seeing, transmission, and backgrounds—which are well suited for modern astronomy and cosmology. The Super-p…
Simple, compact, high-resolution monochromatic x-ray source for characterization of x-ray calorimeter arrays
Eckart, M. E.; Kilbourne, C. A.; Leutenegger, M. A. +6 more
X-ray calorimeters routinely achieve very high spectral resolution, typically a few eV full width at half maximum (FWHM). Measurements of calorimeter line shapes are usually dominated by the natural linewidth of most laboratory calibration sources. This compounds the data acquisition time necessary to statistically sample the instrumental line bro…
INFRA-ICE: An ultra-high vacuum experimental station for laboratory astrochemistry
Santoro, Gonzalo; Sobrado, Jesús. M.; Tajuelo-Castilla, Guillermo +7 more
Laboratory astrochemistry aims at simulating, in the laboratory, some of the chemical and physical processes that operate in different regions of the universe. Amongst the diverse astrochemical problems that can be addressed in the laboratory, the evolution of cosmic dust grains in different regions of the interstellar medium (ISM) and its role in…