2021/10/30 by B. Maffei, Maximilian H. Abitbol, M. H. Abitbol +60 · 9 citations
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing #Aerospace engineering #Astronomy #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #Balloon #Computer science #Cosmic microwave background #Electronic engineering #Engineering #Geology #Interferometry #Measure (data warehouse) #Optics #Pathfinder #Physics #Remote sensing #Sensitivity (control systems) #Space (punctuation) #Spectrometer #Superconducting and THz Device Technology #astro-ph.CO #astro-ph.IM
paper · pdf · open access · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2111.00246
published in arXiv (Cornell University) (Cornell University) · 12 pages. To be published on the proceedings of the 16th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics and Relativistic Field Theories (MG16) - 5-9 July 2021. Online Conference, Italy. http://www.icra.it/mg/mg16/
arxiv created 2021/10/30 · openalex publication_date 2021/10/30 · arxiv updated 2021/11/02 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The BISOU (Balloon Interferometer for Spectral Observations of the Universe) project aims to study the viability and prospects of a balloon-borne spectrometer, pathfinder of a future space mission dedicated to the measurements of the CMB spectral distortions. We present here a preliminary concept based on previous space mission proposals, together with some sensitivity calculation results for the observation goals, showing that a 5-sigma measurement of the y-distortions is achievable.