Preflight Characterization of the BLAST-TNG Receiver and Detector Arrays

• Main Authors: Lourie, Nathan P., Ade, Peter A. R., Angile, Francisco E., Ashton, Peter C., Austermann, Jason E., Devlin, Mark J., Dober, Bradley, Galitzki, Nicholas, Gao, Jiansong, Gordon, Sam, Groppi, Christopher E., Klein, Jeffrey, Hilton, Gene C., Hubmayr, Johannes, Li, Dale, Lowe, Ian, Mani, Hamdi, Mauskopf, Philip, McKenney, Christopher M., Nati, Federico, Novak, Giles, Pascale, Enzo, Pisano, Giampaolo, Sinclair, Adrian, Soler, Juan D., Tucker, Carole, Ullom, Joel, Vissers, Michael, Williams, Paul A.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: arXiv 2018
• Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics astro-ph.IM; FOS Physical sciences; McMurdo Station; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1808.08489; https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.08489

The Next Generation Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST-TNG) is a submillimeter mapping experiment planned for a 28 day long-duration balloon (LDB) flight from McMurdo Station, Antarctica during the 2018-2019 season. BLAST-TNG will detect submillimeter polarized interstellar...