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The GUSTO mission aims to unravel the life cycle of interstellar gas in the Milky Way and Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), tracing the formation and destruction of star-forming clouds, probing the dynamics of the Galactic Center, and exploring the interplay between star formation, stellar feedback, and the structure of the interstellar medium. By mapping [CII] and [NII] emission, GUSTO provides templates for comparing local and distant galaxies.
GUSTO is a NASA balloon-borne mission, featuring a 0.9-meter telescope that flew at 36.6 km (120,000 ft) over Antarctica for 57 days (Dec 31, 2023–Feb 26, 2024). It carried 8-pixel heterodyne spectrometer arrays to observe [CII] and [NII] lines.
GUSTO observed the Galactic Plane (3° > l > –32°, |b| < ~1.2°) and 2 sq. deg. of the LMC with all data downlinked in real time.
GUSTO Data Release 2 delivers calibrated On-The-Fly spectra of the entire mission. The data, sensitive to ~0.1 K rms, are publicly available at http://soral.as.arizona.edu/GUSTO/.
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