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astro-ph.IM2020

Optical night sky brightness measurements from the stratosphere

Ajay Gill, Steven J. Benton, Anthony M. Brown +27

This paper presents optical night sky brightness measurements from the stratosphere using CCD images taken with the Super-pressure Balloon-borne Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT). The d…

astro-ph.IM20206 cited

Download by Parachute: Retrieval of Assets from High Altitude Balloons

E. L. Sirks, P. Clark, R. J. Massey +27

We present a publicly-available toolkit of flight-proven hardware and software to retrieve 5 TB of data or small physical samples from a stratospheric balloon platform. Before laun…

astro-ph.IM2019

Robust diffraction-limited NIR-to-NUV wide-field imaging from stratospheric balloon-borne platforms -- SuperBIT science telescope commissioning flight & performance

L. Javier Romualdez, Steven J. Benton, Anthony M. Brown +26

At a fraction the total cost of an equivalent orbital mission, scientific balloon-borne platforms, operating above 99.7% of the Earth's atmosphere, offer attractive, competitive, a…

astro-ph.IM2019

Prospects for Wideband VLBI Correlation in the Cloud

Ajay Gill, Lindy Blackburn, Arash Roshanineshat +5

This paper proposes a cloud architecture for the correlation of wide bandwidth VLBI data. Cloud correlation facilitates processing of entire experiments in parallel using flexibly…

astro-ph.IM2018

A Study of the Compact Water Vapor Radiometer for Phase Calibration of the Karl G. Janksy Very Large Array

Ajay Gill, Robert J. Selina, Bryan J. Butler

We report on laboratory test results of the Compact Water Vapor Radiometer (CWVR) prototype for the NSF's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), a five-channel design centered arou…