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20162024
most citedData downloaded via parachute from a NASA super-pressure balloon

10 citations · 19 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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astro-ph.IM20245 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.IM2024

Instrument Overview of Taurus: A Balloon-borne CMB and Dust Polarization Experiment

Jared L. May, Alexandre E. Adler, Jason E. Austermann +20

Taurus is a balloon-borne cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment optimized to map the E-mode polarization and Galactic foregrounds at the largest angular scales (

astro-ph.IM202310 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.IM20164 cited

The design and development of a high-resolution visible-to-near-UV telescope for balloon-borne astronomy: SuperBIT

L. Javier Romualdez, Steven J. Benton, Paul Clark +14

Balloon-borne astronomy is unique in that it allows for a level of image stability, resolution, and optical backgrounds that are comparable to space-borne systems due to greatly re…