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Weak lensing in the blue: a counter-intuitive strategy for stratospheric observations
Mohamed M. Shaaban, Ajay S. Gill, Jacqueline McCleary +24
The statistical power of weak lensing measurements is principally driven by the number of high redshift galaxies whose shapes are resolved. Conventional wisdom and physical intuiti…
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…
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…
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…
Auto-tuned thermal control on stratospheric balloon experiments
S. Redmond, S. J. Benton, A. M. Brown +18
Balloon-borne telescopes present unique thermal design challenges which are a combination of those present for both space and ground telescopes. At altitudes of 35-40 km, convectio…
Overview, design, and flight results from SuperBIT: a high-resolution, wide-field, visible-to-near-UV balloon-borne astronomical telescope
L. Javier Romualdez, Steven J. Benton, Anthony M. Brown +17
Balloon-borne astronomy is a unique tool that allows for a level of image stability and significantly reduced atmospheric interference without the often prohibitive cost and long d…