Astronomy/Balloons/Quiz

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NASA's balloon-carried BLAST sub-millimeter telescope is hoisted into launch position on Dec. 25, 2012, at McMurdo Station in Antarctica. Credit: NASA/Wallops Flight Facility.

Balloons for astronomy is a lecture and an article about the lofting technology of balloons to place astronomical detectors above nearly all of the Earth's atmosphere. It is part of an effort to describe lofting technologies in astronomy.

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Quiz

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1. Which of the following is associated with balloon astronomy?

a long-duration platform
ULDB project
the Moon
a low-cost, quick-response method
lighter-than-air gas
launched where the scientist needs to conduct the experiment

2. Yes or No, The various background effects OSO 1 encountered prompted the flight of similar detectors on a balloon to determine the cosmic-ray effects in the materials surrounding the detectors?

No
Yes

3. Which of the following is not a balloon astronomy experiment?

HEFT
HIREGS
CSBF
MAXIS
BLAST
HEAT

4. Complete the text:

Match up the radiation letter with each of the detector possibilities below:
Optical rays - L
Visual rays - M
Violet rays - N
Blue rays - O
Cyan rays - P
Green rays - Q
Yellow rays - R
Orange rays - S
Red rays - T
multialkali (Na-K-Sb-Cs) photocathode materials .
F547M .
F675W .
broad-band filter centered at 404 nm .
F588N .
thallium bromide (TlBr) crystals .
F606W .
18 micrometers FWHM at 490 nm .
wide-gap II-VI semiconductor ZnO doped with Co2+ (Zn1-xCoxO) .

5. True or False, The HEAT balloon-borne instrument is a High-Energy Antimatter Telescope.

TRUE
FALSE

6. Which of the following is not associated with balloons?

Lynn Lake, Manitoba
Fort Sumner, New Mexico
McMurdo Station, Antarctica
SOFIA
Palestine, Texas
BLAST

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Research

Hypothesis:

  1. Balloons wre used for astronomy in the Incan Empire.

Control groups

This is an image of a Lewis rat. Credit: Charles River Laboratories.

The findings demonstrate a statistically systematic change from the status quo or the control group.

“In the design of experiments, treatments [or special properties or characteristics] are applied to [or observed in] experimental units in the treatment group(s).[1] In comparative experiments, members of the complementary group, the control group, receive either no treatment or a standard treatment.[2]"[3]

Proof of concept

Def. a “short and/or incomplete realization of a certain method or idea to demonstrate its feasibility"[4] is called a proof of concept.

Def. evidence that demonstrates that a concept is possible is called proof of concept.

The proof-of-concept structure consists of

  1. background,
  2. procedures,
  3. findings, and
  4. interpretation.[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Klaus Hinkelmann, Oscar Kempthorne (2008). Design and Analysis of Experiments, Volume I: Introduction to Experimental Design (2nd ed.). Wiley. ISBN 978-0-471-72756-9. http://books.google.com/?id=T3wWj2kVYZgC&printsec=frontcover.
  2. ↑ R. A. Bailey (2008). Design of comparative experiments. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-68357-9. http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521683579.
  3. ↑ "Treatment and control groups, In: Wikipedia". San Francisco, California: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. May 18, 2012. Retrieved 2012-05-31.
  4. ↑ "proof of concept, In: Wiktionary". San Francisco, California: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. November 10, 2012. Retrieved 2013-01-13.
  5. ↑ Ginger Lehrman and Ian B Hogue, Sarah Palmer, Cheryl Jennings, Celsa A Spina, Ann Wiegand, Alan L Landay, Robert W Coombs, Douglas D Richman, John W Mellors, John M Coffin, Ronald J Bosch, David M Margolis (August 13, 2005). "Depletion of latent HIV-1 infection in vivo: a proof-of-concept study". Lancet 366 (9485): 549-55. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(05)67098-5. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1894952/. Retrieved 2012-05-09.

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