Philippe Balard

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique — France

Physics and Astronomy · Physical Sciences

14h-index480citations50works0.62yr avg
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Research Topics

Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing(26), CCD and CMOS Imaging Sensors(14), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research(14), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies(11), Photocathodes and Microchannel Plates(8)

Publications50 total

The 2023 Flight of the Faint Intergalactic-medium Redshifted Emission Balloon
The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Optimized cooling system for balloon-borne astronomy: the FIREBall-2 solution
Journal of Astronomical Telescopes Instruments and Systems·2025
The Faint Intergalactic-medium Redshifted Emission Balloon (FIREBall-2)
2024
FIREBall-2 UV balloon telescope in-flight calibration system
Journal of Astronomical Telescopes Instruments and Systems·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
FIREBall-2 2023: flight communications performance
2024· 1 cited
First light of VLT/HiRISE: High-resolution spectroscopy of young giant exoplanets
Astronomy and Astrophysics·2023· 28 citedOpen Access
FIREBall-2 UV balloon telescope in-flight calibration system
2023
First light of VLT/HiRISE: High-resolution spectroscopy of young giant exoplanets
arXiv (Cornell University)·2023· 1 citedOpen Access
Balloon-borne FIREBall-2 ultraviolet spectrograph stray light control based on nonsequential reverse modeling of on-sky data
Journal of Astronomical Telescopes Instruments and Systems·2022· 1 citedOpen Access
Validation of strategies for coupling exoplanet PSFs into single-mode fibres for high-dispersion coronagraphy
Astronomy and Astrophysics·2022· 8 citedOpen Access
Experimental validation of exoplanet centring strategies for high dispersion coronagraphy
Adaptive Optics Systems VIII·2022Open Access
Calibration of residual aberrations in exoplanet imagers with large numbers of degrees of freedom
Astronomy and Astrophysics·2021· 13 citedOpen Access
End-to-end ground calibration and in-flight performance of the FIREBall-2 instrument
arXiv (Cornell University)·2021Open Access
End-to-end ground calibration and in-flight performance of the\n FIREBall-2 instrument
arXiv (Cornell University)·2021Open Access
Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) for the Subaru telescope: a next-generation facility instrument of the Subaru telescope has started coming
2020· 1 cited
End-to-end ground calibration and in-flight performance of the FIREBall-2 instrument
Journal of Astronomical Telescopes Instruments and Systems·2020· 8 citedOpen Access
FIREBall-2: advancing TRL while doing proof-of-concept astrophysics on a suborbital platform
2019· 2 citedOpen Access
FIREBall-2: advancing TRL while doing proof-of-concept astrophysics on a\n suborbital platform
arXiv (Cornell University)·2019Open Access
SUBARU prime focus spectrograph integration and performance at LAM
Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII·2018· 2 cited
Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) for the Subaru telescope: ongoing integration and future plans
Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII·2018· 29 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Jean-Luc Gach(22), Christian Guillaume(18), Eric Stadler(16), Philippe Feautrier(15), P. Blanchard(15), Mark Downing(14), N. Hubin(13), Paul Jorden(13), Vincent Picouet(12), Gillian Kyne(12), Erika Hamden(12), D. Vibert(11), Shouleh Nikzad(11), Keri Hoadley(10), Johan Montel(10), Nicole Melso(10), M. Kasper(8), Thierry Fusco(8), David Schiminovich(8), Fabrice Madec(7)