The FIREBall-2 UV balloon telescope: 2018 flight and improvments for 2020

Hoadley, K; Hamden, ET; Milliard, B; Khan, AR; Agarwal, S; Lin, ZR; Schiminovich, D; Kyne, G; Evrard, J; Martin, DC

Hoadley, K (reprint author), CALTECH, Div Phys Math & Astron, 1200 E Calif Blvd,MC 278-17, Pasadena, CA 91105 USA.

UV, X-RAY, AND GAMMA-RAY SPACE INSTRUMENTATION FOR ASTRONOMY XXI, 2019; 11118 ():

Abstract

The Faint Intergalactic-medium Redshifted Emission Balloon (FIREBall-2, FB-2) is designed to discover and map faint UV emission from the circumgalacti......

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