The Faint Intergalactic-medium Redshifted Emission Balloon (FIREBall-2)

Drew M. Miles; Vincent Picouet; Chris Martin; Erika Hamden; Keri Hoadley; Bruno Milliard; Shouleh Nikzad; David Schiminovich; David Valls-Gabaud; Simran Agarwal; Philippe Balard; Patrick Blanchard; Harrison Bradley; Nicolas Bray; Ignacio Cevallos; Charles-Antoine Chevrier; Haeun Chung; Marty Crabill; Fernando Cruz Aguirre; Greyson Davis; Xihan Deng; Fabien Harmand; Catherine Hourtolle; Olivia Jones; Nazende Kerkeser; Aafaque Khan; Gillian Kyne; Jessica Li; Zeren Lin; Nicole Melso; Johan Montel; Julie Richard; Meghna Sitaram; Jared Termini; Jean-Noel Valdivia; Didier Vibert; Matthew Werneken

doi:10.1117/12.3018474

22 August 2024 The Faint Intergalactic-medium Redshifted Emission Balloon (FIREBall-2)

Drew M. Miles, Vincent Picouet, Chris Martin, Erika Hamden, Keri Hoadley, Bruno Milliard, Shouleh Nikzad, David Schiminovich, David Valls-Gabaud, Simran Agarwal, Philippe Balard, Patrick Blanchard, Harrison Bradley, Nicolas Bray, Ignacio Cevallos, Charles-Antoine Chevrier, Haeun Chung, Marty Crabill, Fernando Cruz Aguirre, Greyson Davis, Xihan Deng, Fabien Harmand, Catherine Hourtolle, Olivia Jones, Nazende Kerkeser, Aafaque Khan, Gillian Kyne, Jessica Li, Zeren Lin, Nicole Melso, Johan Montel, Julie Richard, Meghna Sitaram, Jared Termini, Jean-Noel Valdivia, Didier Vibert, Matthew Werneken

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Proceedings Volume 13093, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray; 1309303 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3018474
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2024, Yokohama, Japan

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The Faint Intergalactic Medium Redshifted Emission Balloon (FIREBall-2) is a UV multi-object spectrograph designed to detect emission from the circumgalactic and circumquasar medium at low redshifts (0.3 < z < 1.0). The FIREBall-2 spectrograph uses a suborbital balloon vehicle to access a stratospheric transmission window centered around 205 nm and is fed by a 1-m primary parabolic mirror and a 2-mirror field corrector that allows an ≈11’ x 35’ field of view. The slit-mask spectrograph can access dozens of galaxy targets per field, with each target spectrum read out on a UV electron-multiplying CCD detector. Following a 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 September, 2023.

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Drew M. Miles, Vincent Picouet, Chris Martin, Erika Hamden, Keri Hoadley, Bruno Milliard, Shouleh Nikzad, David Schiminovich, David Valls-Gabaud, Simran Agarwal, Philippe Balard, Patrick Blanchard, Harrison Bradley, Nicolas Bray, Ignacio Cevallos, Charles-Antoine Chevrier, Haeun Chung, Marty Crabill, Fernando Cruz Aguirre, Greyson Davis, Xihan Deng, Fabien Harmand, Catherine Hourtolle, Olivia Jones, Nazende Kerkeser, Aafaque Khan, Gillian Kyne, Jessica Li, Zeren Lin, Nicole Melso, Johan Montel, Julie Richard, Meghna Sitaram, Jared Termini, Jean-Noel Valdivia, Didier Vibert, and Matthew Werneken "The Faint Intergalactic-medium Redshifted Emission Balloon (FIREBall-2)", Proc. SPIE 13093, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 1309303 (22 August 2024); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3018474

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