The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society (천문학회보)
- Volume 44 Issue 2
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- Pages.57.2-57.2
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- 2019
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- 1226-2692(pISSN)
BITSE Instrument
- Choi, Seonghwan (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Instiitute) ;
- Park, Jongyeob (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Instiitute) ;
- Yang, Heesu (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Instiitute) ;
- Baek, Ji-Hye (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Instiitute) ;
- Kim, Jihun (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Instiitute) ;
- Kim, Jinhyun (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Instiitute) ;
- Kim, Yeon-Han (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Instiitute) ;
- Cho, Kyung-Suk (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Instiitute) ;
- Newmark, Jeffrey S. (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) ;
- Gong, Qian (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) ;
- Nguyen, Hanson (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) ;
- Chang, William S. (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) ;
- Swinski, Joseph-Paul A. (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) ;
- Gopalswamy, Natchumuthuk (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
- Published : 2019.10.14
Abstract
BITSE is a balloon mission, which is a solar coronagraph to measure speed and temperature of the solar wind using 4 different wavelength filters and an pixelated polarization camera. KASI and NASA jointly designed, developed, and tested the solar coronagraph. Mainly KASI developed an imaging system and a control system, and NASA developed an optical system and mechanical structures. We mount the BITSE on Wallops Arc-Second Pointer (WASP) of Wallops Flight Facility, and launch it with a 39 mcf balloon of Columbia Scientific Ballon Facility. We will introduce the overall system of the BITSE.
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