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20192026
most citedRobust diffraction-limited NIR-to-NUV wide-field imaging from stratospheric balloon-borne platforms -- SuperBIT science telescope commissioning flight & performance

13 citations · 49 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

astro-ph.CO2026

Lensing in the Blue IV: The First Weak Gravitational Lensing Maps from the Stratosphere

Sayan Saha, Maya Amit, Jacqueline E. McCleary +42

The Super-Pressure Balloon-borne Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT) completed its science flight in April 2023, obtaining imaging data for 30 galaxy clusters. In this work, we present th…

astro-ph.IM2026

Multi-sensor fusion for fine-guidance and milliarcsecond-level attitude estimation of balloon-borne telescope

Philippe Voyer, Maya Amit, Steven J. Benton +44

Balloon-borne telescopes rely on fine-guidance systems to achieve milliarcsecond image stability despite residual disturbances from the balloon environment. In these systems, the F…

astro-ph.CO2026

Lensing in the Blue III: Weak Lensing Shape Catalogs of 30 Merging Galaxy Clusters

Sayan Saha, Jacqueline E. McCleary, Spencer W. Everett +38

We present the weak gravitational lensing dataset from the Super-pressure Balloon-Borne Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT), which imaged 30 galaxy clusters during its 45 night flight in…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 5 cited

SuperBIT Superpressure Flight Instrument Overview and Performance: Near diffraction-limited Astronomical Imaging from the Stratosphere

Ajay S. Gill, Steven J. Benton, Christopher J. Damaren +26

SuperBIT was a 0.5-meter near-ultraviolet to near-infrared wide-field telescope that launched on a NASA superpressure balloon into the stratosphere from New Zealand for a 45-night…

astro-ph.IM2024

From SuperBIT to GigaBIT: Informing next-generation balloon-borne telescope design with Fine Guidance System flight data

Philippe Voyer, Steven J. Benton, Christopher J. Damaren +28

The Super-pressure Balloon-borne Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT) is a near-diffraction-limited 0.5m telescope that launched via NASA's super-pressure balloon technology on April 16, 2…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 10 cited

Data downloaded via parachute from a NASA super-pressure balloon

Ellen L. Sirks, Richard Massey, Ajay S. Gill +40

In April to May 2023, the superBIT telescope was lifted to the Earth's stratosphere by a helium-filled super-pressure balloon, to acquire astronomical imaging from above (99.5% of)…