The balloon-borne large aperture submillimeter telescope (BLAST) 2006: calibration and flight performance
The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) operated successfully during a 250 hr flight over Antarctica in 2006 December (BLAST06). As part of the calibration and pointing procedures, the red hypergiant star VY CMa was observed and used as the primary calibrator. Details of the...
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ftrepnacmexico:oai:inaoe.repositorioinstitucional.mx:1009/1352 2023-05-15T13:34:48+02:00 The balloon-borne large aperture submillimeter telescope (BLAST) 2006: calibration and flight performance David Hughes 2009-12-20 application/pdf http://inaoe.repositorioinstitucional.mx/jspui/handle/1009/1352 eng eng The Astrophysical Journal citation:Truch, Matthew D. P., et al., (2009). The balloon-borne large aperture submillimeter telescope (BLAST) 2006: calibration and flight performance, The Astrophysical Journal. Vol. 707(2):1723–1728 http://inaoe.repositorioinstitucional.mx/jspui/handle/1009/1352 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 CC-BY-NC-ND info:eu-repo/classification/Inspec/Balloons info:eu-repo/classification/Inspec/Submillimeter info:eu-repo/classification/Inspec/Telescopes info:eu-repo/classification/cti/1 info:eu-repo/classification/cti/21 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion 2009 ftrepnacmexico 2021-07-02T06:35:00Z The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) operated successfully during a 250 hr flight over Antarctica in 2006 December (BLAST06). As part of the calibration and pointing procedures, the red hypergiant star VY CMa was observed and used as the primary calibrator. Details of the overall BLAST06 calibration procedure are discussed. The 1σ uncertainty on the absolute calibration is accurate to 9.5%, 8.7%, and 9.2% at the 250, 350, and 500 μm bands, respectively. The errors are highly correlated between bands resulting in much lower errors for the derived shape of the 250–500 μm continuum. The overall pointing error is <5′′ rms for the 36′′, 42′′, and 60′′ beams. The performance of optics and pointing systems is discussed. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctica Repositorio Nacional Gobierno de Mexico |
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The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) operated successfully during a 250 hr flight over Antarctica in 2006 December (BLAST06). As part of the calibration and pointing procedures, the red hypergiant star VY CMa was observed and used as the primary calibrator. Details of the overall BLAST06 calibration procedure are discussed. The 1σ uncertainty on the absolute calibration is accurate to 9.5%, 8.7%, and 9.2% at the 250, 350, and 500 μm bands, respectively. The errors are highly correlated between bands resulting in much lower errors for the derived shape of the 250–500 μm continuum. The overall pointing error is <5′′ rms for the 36′′, 42′′, and 60′′ beams. The performance of optics and pointing systems is discussed. |
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The balloon-borne large aperture submillimeter telescope (BLAST) 2006: calibration and flight performance |
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The balloon-borne large aperture submillimeter telescope (BLAST) 2006: calibration and flight performance |
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The balloon-borne large aperture submillimeter telescope (BLAST) 2006: calibration and flight performance |
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The balloon-borne large aperture submillimeter telescope (BLAST) 2006: calibration and flight performance |
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The balloon-borne large aperture submillimeter telescope (BLAST) 2006: calibration and flight performance |
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balloon-borne large aperture submillimeter telescope (blast) 2006: calibration and flight performance |
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citation:Truch, Matthew D. P., et al., (2009). The balloon-borne large aperture submillimeter telescope (BLAST) 2006: calibration and flight performance, The Astrophysical Journal. Vol. 707(2):1723–1728 http://inaoe.repositorioinstitucional.mx/jspui/handle/1009/1352 |
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