Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for polarization: BLAST-pol.

• Published in: SPIE Proceedings, Millimeter and Submillimeter Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy IV
• Main Authors: Marsden, Gaelen, Chapin, Edward, Halpern, Mark, Scott, Douglas
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) 2008
• Subjects: Arctic; Milky Way; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/37291; https://doi.org/10.1117/12.788413

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...