BETTII: A pathfinder for high angular resolution observations of star-forming regions in the far-infrared

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dc.contributor.advisorMundy, Lee Gen_US
dc.contributor.advisorRinehart, Stephen Aen_US
dc.contributor.authorRizzo, Maxime Jeanen_US
dc.contributor.departmentAstronomyen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-24T06:33:59Z
dc.date.available2017-01-24T06:33:59Z
dc.date.issued2016en_US
dc.description.abstractIn this thesis, we study clustered star formation in nearby star clusters and discuss how high angular resolution observations in the far-infrared regime could help us understand these important regions of stellar birth. We use the increased angular resolution from the FORCAST instrument on the SOFIA airborne observatory to study 10 nearby star-forming regions, and discuss the physical properties of sources in these regions that we can infer from radiative transfer modeling using these new observations. We discuss the design of BETTII, a pathfinder balloon-borne interferometer which will provide significantly better angular resolution in the far-infrared regime, and pave the way for future space-borne observatories. We elaborate on the details of BETTII's core technique, called Double-Fourier interferometry, and how to accurately compute the sensitivity of instruments which use this technique. Finally, we show our design and implementation results of the control and attitude estimation system for the BETTII payload, which poses unique challenges as an interferometer on a balloon platform.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M2FV7Z
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/18948
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledAstronomyen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledAerospace engineeringen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledAstrophysicsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledBalloonen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledDouble-Fourieren_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledFourier transform spectroscopyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledInfrareden_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledInterferometryen_US
dc.titleBETTII: A pathfinder for high angular resolution observations of star-forming regions in the far-infrareden_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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