A precursor mission to high contrast imaging balloon system

Olivier Côté; Guillaume Allain; Denis Brousseau; Marie-Pier Lord; Samy Ouahbi; Mireille Ouellet; Deven Patel; Simon Thibault; Cédric Vallée; Ruslan Belikov; Eduardo Bendek; Célia Blain; Collin Bradley; Olivier Daigle; Chris de Jong; David Doelman; René Doyon; Frédéric Grandmont; Michael Helmbrecht; Matthew Kenworthy; David Lafrenière; Frank Marchis; Christian Marois; Steeve Montminy; Frans Snik; Gautam Vasisht; Jean-Pierre Véran; Philippe Vincent

doi:10.1117/12.2314071

16 July 2018 A precursor mission to high contrast imaging balloon system

Olivier Côté, Guillaume Allain, Denis Brousseau, Marie-Pier Lord, Samy Ouahbi, Mireille Ouellet, Deven Patel, Simon Thibault, Cédric Vallée, Ruslan Belikov, Eduardo Bendek, Célia Blain, Collin Bradley, Olivier Daigle, Chris de Jong, David Doelman, René Doyon, Frédéric Grandmont, Michael Helmbrecht, Matthew Kenworthy, David Lafrenière, Frank Marchis, Christian Marois, Steeve Montminy, Frans Snik, Gautam Vasisht, Jean-Pierre Véran, Philippe Vincent

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Proceedings Volume 10702, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII; 1070248 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2314071
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2018, Austin, Texas, United States

Abstract

The HiCIBaS (High-Contrast Imaging Balloon System) project aims at launching a balloon borne telescope up to 36km to test high contrast imaging equipment and algorithms. The payload consists of a off the shelf 14-inch telescope with a custom-built Alt-Az mount. This telescope provides lights to two sensors, a pyramidal low order wave front sensor, and a coronagraphic wavefront sensor. Since the payload will reach its cruise altitude at about midnight mission, two target stars have been designated for observations, Capella as the night target, and Polaris as the early morning target. Data will be collected mainly on the magnitude of atmospheric and gondola’s turbulences, the luminosity of the background. The whole system is already built and ready to ship to Timmins for the launch in mid-August 2018.

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Olivier Côté, Guillaume Allain, Denis Brousseau, Marie-Pier Lord, Samy Ouahbi, Mireille Ouellet, Deven Patel, Simon Thibault, Cédric Vallée, Ruslan Belikov, Eduardo Bendek, Célia Blain, Collin Bradley, Olivier Daigle, Chris de Jong, David Doelman, René Doyon, Frédéric Grandmont, Michael Helmbrecht, Matthew Kenworthy, David Lafrenière, Frank Marchis, Christian Marois, Steeve Montminy, Frans Snik, Gautam Vasisht, Jean-Pierre Véran, and Philippe Vincent "A precursor mission to high contrast imaging balloon system", Proc. SPIE 10702, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII, 1070248 (16 July 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2314071

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