3 papers
astro-ph.IM2025
Drone Beam Mapping of the TONE Radio Dish Array
Emily R. Kuhn, Will Tyndall, Benjamin R. B. Saliwanchik +3
Drone-based beam measurements are a promising avenue to tackle the critical challenge of calibration for 21 cm cosmology telescopes. In this paper, we introduce a new drone-based c…
astro-ph.IM2025
Beam Maps of the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) Measured with a Drone
Will Tyndall, Alex Reda, J. Richard Shaw +14
We present beam measurements of the CHIME telescope using a radio calibration source deployed on a drone payload. During test flights, the pulsing calibration source and the telesc…
astro-ph.IM2024
MAUVE: An Ultraviolet Astrophysics Probe Mission Concept
Mayura Balakrishnan, Rory Bowens, Fernando Cruz Aguirre +18
We present the mission concept "Mission to Analyze the UltraViolet universE" (MAUVE), a wide-field spectrometer and imager conceived during the inaugural NASA Astrophysics Mission…