Preflight characterization of the BLAST-TNG receiver and detector arrays

• Published in: Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy IX
• Main Authors: Gao, Jian-Rong, Zmuidzinas, Jonas, Ullom, Joel N., Williams, Paul, Vissers, Michael, Tucker, Carole, Soler, Juan D., Sinclair, Adrian, Pisano, Giampaolo, Pascale, Enzo, Novak, Giles, Nati, Federico, McKenney, Christopher M., Mauskopf, Philip, Mani, Hamdi, Lowe, Ian, Li, Dale, Klein, Jeffrey, Hubmayr, Johannes, Hilton, Gene C., Groppi, Christopher E., Gordon, Samuel, Gao, Jiansong, Dober, Bradley, Devlin, Mark, Austermann, Jason E., Ashton, Peter C., Angile, Francisco E., Ade, Peter A. R., Galitzki, Nicholas, Lourie, Nathan P.
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: SPIE 2018
• Subjects: McMurdo Station; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/120576/; https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2314396

The Next Generation Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST-TNG) is a submillimeter mapping experiment planned for a 28 day long-duration balloon (LDB) flight from McMurdo Station, Antarctica during the 2018-2019 season. BLAST-TNG will detect submillimeter polarized interstellar...