The balloon-borne large aperture submillimeter telescope: BLAST

• Main Author: David Hughes
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The astrophysical journal 2008
• Subjects: info:eu-repo/classification/cti/1; info:eu-repo/classification/cti/21; Canada; Esrange; Kiruna; McMurdo Station; Antarc*; Antarctica; Victoria Island; victoria island
• Online Access: http://inaoe.repositorioinstitucional.mx/jspui/handle/1009/1047

The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) is a suborbital surveying experiment designed to study the evolutionary history and processes of star formation in local galaxies (including the MilkyWay) and galaxies at cosmological distances. The BLAST continuum camera, which consis...