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20022026
most citedThe Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA): Design, Technical Overview and Performance

224 citations · 362 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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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.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)…

astro-ph.IM2023

Lensing in the Blue II: Estimating the Sensitivity of Stratospheric Balloons to Weak Gravitational Lensing

Jacqueline E. McCleary, Spencer W. Everett, Mohamed M. Shaaban +23

The Superpressure Balloon-borne Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT) is a diffraction-limited, wide-field, 0.5 m, near-infrared to near-ultraviolet observatory designed to exploit the stra…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 3 cited

Inter-Calibration of Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes with UAV-based Airborne Calibration System

A. M. Brown, J. Muller, M. de Naurois +1

The recent advances in the flight capability of remotely piloted aerial vehicles (here after referred to as UAVs) have afforded the astronomical community the possibility of a new…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 9 cited

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…