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Multi object spectrograph of the Fireball balloon experiment
Author(s): R. Grange; G. R. Lemaitre; S. Quiret; B. Milliard; S. Pascal; A. Origné
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Paper Abstract

Fireball is a NASA/CNES balloon-borne experiment to study the faint diffuse circumgalactic emission in the ultraviolet around 200 nm. The field of view of the 1 meter diameter parabola is enlarged using a two-mirror field corrector providing 1000 arcmin2 at the slit mask. The 0.1 nm resolution Multi Object Spectrograph is based on two identical Schmidt systems sharing a reflective aspherical grating. The aspherization of the grating is achieved using a double replication technique of a metallic deformable matrix. We will present the F/2.5 spectrograph design and the deformable matrix process to obtain the Schmidt grating with elliptical contours.

Paper Details

Date Published: 24 July 2014
PDF: 7 pages
Proc. SPIE 9144, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2014: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 914430 (24 July 2014); doi: 10.1117/12.2056388
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R. Grange, Lab. d'Astrophysique de Marseille, CNRS, Aix Marseille Univ. (France)
G. R. Lemaitre, Lab. d'Astrophysique de Marseille, CNRS, Aix Marseille Univ. (France)
S. Quiret, Lab. d'Astrophysique de Marseille, CNRS, Aix Marseille Univ. (France)
B. Milliard, Lab. d'Astrophysique de Marseille, CNRS, Aix Marseille Univ. (France)
S. Pascal, Lab. d'Astrophysique de Marseille, CNRS, Aix Marseille Univ. (France)
A. Origné, Lab. d'Astrophysique de Marseille, CNRS, Aix Marseille Univ. (France)


Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 9144:
Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2014: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray
Tadayuki Takahashi; Jan-Willem A. den Herder; Mark Bautz, Editor(s)

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