The Enabling Capabilities of the Super Pressure Balloon Platform: Diffraction-Limited, Wide-field Imaging from the Stratosphere
by William Jones, C. Barth Netterfield, Richard Massey, Jason Rhodes, Steven J. Benton, Anthony Brown, Paul Clark, Christopher Damaren, Tim Eifler, Aurelien Fraisse, Mathew Galloway, John Hartley, Brad Holder, Eric Huff, Mathilde Jauzac, David Lagattuta, Jason Leung, Lun Li, Vy Luu, Jacqueline McCleary, Johanna Nagy, Susan Redmond, Javier Romualdez, Jurgen Schmoll, Mohamaed Shaaban, and Ellen Sirks
Published onSep 30, 2019
The Enabling Capabilities of the Super Pressure Balloon Platform: Diffraction-Limited, Wide-field Imaging from the Stratosphere
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Abstract
We propose the development of a stratospheric balloon-borne observatory whose diffraction-limited, wide-field imaging capability far exceeds that of HST. The demand for sub arc-second resolution imaging to complement the new large terrestrial programs, such as LSST, will grow exponentially in the next decade. The proposed project will provide it.
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