1. Pilot optical alignment
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Nicolas Ponthieu, F. Pajot, J. M. Nicot, M. Chaigneau, G. Parot, Giorgio Savini, Y. André, M. Bouzit, Nicolas Bray, Johan Montel, C. Tucker, J.-P. Dubois, J. Martignac, J. Aumont, Maria Salatino, O. Simonella, V. Buttice, Bruno Maffei, R. J. Laureijs, R. Misawa, J.-Ph. Bernard, Frederi Mirc, B. Mot, J. Narbonne, Silvia Masi, O. Boulade, C. Engel, Etienne Perot, E. Doumayrou, A. Caillat, J. A. Tauber, C. Coudournac, A. Hughes, I. Ristorcelli, Y. Lepennec, S. Maestre, Pierre Tapie, Y. Longval, P. de Bernardis, F. Bousquet, G. Foenard, S. Grabarnik, Giampaolo Pisano, G. Roudil, P. Etcheto, P. Gélot, B. Leriche, Muriel Saccoccio, J. P. Crussaire, J. Pimentao, C. Marty, Matthew Joseph Griffin, Peter A. R. Ade, L. Baustista, M. Charra, F. Douchin, J.-P. Torre, L. Rodriguez, L. Montier, Peter Charles Hargrave, B. Crane, W. Marty, and G. Versepuech
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Physics ,Optical alignment ,business.industry ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics ,Polarization (waves) ,Galaxy ,Interstellar medium ,Wavelength ,Long wavelength ,Optics ,business ,Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics ,Dust emission ,Ontario canada - Abstract
PILOT (Polarized Instrument for Long wavelength Observations of the Tenuous interstellar medium) is a balloonborne astronomy experiment designed to study the polarization of dust emission in the diffuse interstellar medium in our Galaxy. The PILOT instrument allows observations at wavelengths 240 μm (1.2THz) with an angular resolution about two arc-minutes. The observations performed during the first flight in September 2015 at Timmins, Ontario Canada, have demonstrated the optical performances of the instrument.
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- 2017
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