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Observations of a GX 301-2 Apastron Flare with the X-Calibur Hard X-Ray Polarimeter Supported by NICER, the Swift XRT and BAT, and Fermi GBM
Q. Abarr, M. Baring, B. Beheshtipour +28
The accretion-powered X-ray pulsar GX 301-2 was observed with the balloon-borne X-Calibur hard X-ray polarimeter during late December 2018, with contiguous observations by the NICE…
Design of the telescope truss and gondola for the balloon-borne X-ray polarimeter X-Calibur
Fabian Kislat, Banafsheh Beheshtipour, Paul Dowkontt +13
X-ray polarimetry has seen a growing interest in recent years. Improvements in detector technology and focusing X-ray optics now enable sensitive astrophysical X-ray polarization m…
The Debris Disk Explorer: a balloon-borne coronagraph for observing debris disks
Lewis C. Roberts, Geoffrey Bryden, Wesley Traub +9
The Debris Disk Explorer (DDX) is a proposed balloon-borne investigation of debris disks around nearby stars. Debris disks are analogs of the Asteroid Belt (mainly rocky) and Kuipe…
Space-quality data from balloon-borne telescopes: the High Altitude Lensing Observatory (HALO)
Jason Rhodes, Benjamin Dobke, Jeffrey Booth +36
We present a method for attaining sub-arcsecond pointing stability during sub- orbital balloon flights, as designed for in the High Altitude Lensing Observatory (HALO) concept. The…