The balloon-borne large-aperture submillimeter telescope for polarization: BLAST-pol

• Main Author: David Hughes
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Proceedings of SPIE 2008
• Subjects: info:eu-repo/classification/cti/1; info:eu-repo/classification/cti/21; Arctic; Milky Way; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://inaoe.repositorioinstitucional.mx/jspui/handle/1009/1039

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...