Baptiste MOT
IRAP – CNRS, France
Biography
Baptiste Mot is a CNRS Research Engineer at the Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie (IRAP) in Toulouse. Since 2009 he is the Project Manager of the PILOT balloon-borne experiment. He is also in charge of the system engineering and of the ground end to end tests performed on the payload. He took part in the two fl ight campaigns in Timmins (Canada) and Alice Springs (Australia) and he works on this two fi rst fl ights' data analysis. He is involved in the conception of the satellite LiteBIRD that is the Class-L satellite mission proposed by JAXA, about to be selected by JAXA by the beginning of 2019. LiteBIRD is dedicated to the observation of the polarized emission from the CMB in order to measure the B-mode imprints of primordial gravitational waves from Infl ation. He is the System Engineer of the High-Frequency Telescope that is one of the two telescopes embedded on LiteBIRD.
Abstract
Abstract : PILOT inflight optical performances