The FIREBall Spectrograph : A Fiber-Fed NUV Integral Field Unit

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Jan 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009aas...21347527t&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #213, #475.27; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.440

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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The FIREBall (Faint Intergalactic Redshifted Emission Balloon) Offner mount spectrograph is designed to map hydrogen and metal line emission from the intergalactic medium at several redshifts below z=1, exploiting a small window in atmospheric oxygen absorption at balloon altitudes. The instrument is a wide-field (160 arcsec x 160 arcsec) IFU fed by almost 400 fibers. It is designed to observe Lyman alpha, as well as OVI and CIV doublets, from 0.3 < z < 0.9. We have characterized the throughput for the entire system using several UV bright stars. These, combined with background measurements, allow revisions of plans for an upcoming Spring 2009 campaign.

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