The Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for polarization: BLAST-pol
International audience The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) is a sub-orbital experiment designed to study the process of star formation in local galaxies (including the Milky Way) and in galaxies at cosmological distances. Using a 2m Cassegrain telescope, BLAST images the...
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International audience The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) is a sub-orbital experiment designed to study the process of star formation in local galaxies (including the Milky Way) and in galaxies at cosmological distances. Using a 2m Cassegrain telescope, BLAST images the sky onto a focal plane, which consists of 270 bolometric detectors split between three arrays, observing simultaneously in 30% wide bands, centered at 250, 350, and 500 ?m. The diffraction-limited optical system provides a resolution of 30" at 250 ?m. The pointing system enables raster-like scans with a positional accuracy of ~30", reconstructed to better than 5" rms in postflight analysis. BLAST had two successful flights, from the Arctic in 2005, and from Antarctica in 2006, which provided the first high-resolution and large-area (~0.8-200 deg2) submillimeter surveys at these wavelengths. As a pathfinder for the SPIRE instrument on Herschel, BLAST shares with the ESA satellite similar focal plane technology and scientific motivation. A third flight in 2009 will see the instrument modified to be polarization-sensitive (BLAST-pol). With its unprecedented mapping speed and resolution, BLAST-pol will provide insights into Galactic star-forming nurseries, and give the necessary link between the larger, coarse resolution surveys and the narrow, resolved observations of star-forming structures from space and ground based instruments being commissioned in the next 5 years. |
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The Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for polarization: BLAST-pol |
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fthalin2p3:oai:HAL:in2p3-00330537v1 2024-05-19T07:29:24+00:00 The Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for polarization: BLAST-pol Marsden, G. Ade, P.A.R. Benton, S. Bock, J. J. Chapin, E. L. Chung, J. Devlin, M. J. Dicker, S. Fissel, L. Griffin, M. Gundersen, J. O. Halpern, M. Hargrave, P. C. Hughes, D. H. Klein, J. Korotkov, A. Mactavish, C. J. Martin, P. G. Martin, T. G. Matthews, T. G. Mauskopf, P. Moncelsi, L. Netterfield, C. B. Novak, G. Pascale, E. Olmi, L. Patanchon, G. Rex, M. Savini, G. Scott, D. Semisch, C. Thomas, N. Truch, M. D. P. Tucker, C. Tucker, G. S. Viero, M. P. Ward-Thompson, D. Wiebe, D. V. APC - Cosmologie AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)) Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) William D. Duncan Wayne S. Holland Stafford Withington Jonas Zmuidzinas Marseille, France 2008-06-26 https://hal.in2p3.fr/in2p3-00330537 https://doi.org/10.1117/12.788413 en eng HAL CCSD Spie Optical Engineering Press info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/arxiv/0805.4420 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1117/12.788413 in2p3-00330537 https://hal.in2p3.fr/in2p3-00330537 ARXIV: 0805.4420 BIBCODE: 2008SPIE.7020E.1M doi:10.1117/12.788413 Proceedings of SPIE: Millimeter and Submillimeter Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy IV Millimeter and Submillimeter Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy IV https://hal.in2p3.fr/in2p3-00330537 Millimeter and Submillimeter Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy IV, Jun 2008, Marseille, France. ⟨10.1117/12.788413⟩ [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO] [SDU.ASTR.CO]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO] [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph] info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject Conference papers 2008 fthalin2p3 https://doi.org/10.1117/12.788413 2024-04-23T23:57:24Z International audience The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) is a sub-orbital experiment designed to study the process of star formation in local galaxies (including the Milky Way) and in galaxies at cosmological distances. Using a 2m Cassegrain telescope, BLAST images the sky onto a focal plane, which consists of 270 bolometric detectors split between three arrays, observing simultaneously in 30% wide bands, centered at 250, 350, and 500 ?m. The diffraction-limited optical system provides a resolution of 30" at 250 ?m. The pointing system enables raster-like scans with a positional accuracy of ~30", reconstructed to better than 5" rms in postflight analysis. BLAST had two successful flights, from the Arctic in 2005, and from Antarctica in 2006, which provided the first high-resolution and large-area (~0.8-200 deg2) submillimeter surveys at these wavelengths. As a pathfinder for the SPIRE instrument on Herschel, BLAST shares with the ESA satellite similar focal plane technology and scientific motivation. A third flight in 2009 will see the instrument modified to be polarization-sensitive (BLAST-pol). With its unprecedented mapping speed and resolution, BLAST-pol will provide insights into Galactic star-forming nurseries, and give the necessary link between the larger, coarse resolution surveys and the narrow, resolved observations of star-forming structures from space and ground based instruments being commissioned in the next 5 years. Conference Object Antarc* Antarctica Arctic HAL-IN2P3 (Institut national de physique nucléaire et de physique des particules) SPIE Proceedings, Millimeter and Submillimeter Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy IV 7020 702002 |