The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for Polarimetry-BLASTPol: Performance and results from the 2012 Antarctic flight

• Published in: SPIE Proceedings, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes V
• Main Authors: Galitzki, N., Moncelsi, L.
• Other Authors: Stepp, Larry M., Gilmozzi, Roberto, Hall, Helen J.
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) 2014
• Subjects: Antarctic; Canada; Soler; Antarc*; Antarctica; National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2054759

The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for Polarimetry (BLASTPol) is a suborbital mapping experiment, designed to study the role played by magnetic fields in the star formation process. BLASTPol observes polarized light using a total power instrument, photolithographic polarizing g...