The half wave plate rotator for the BLAST-TNG balloon-borne telescope

• Main Authors: Setiawan, Hananiel, Ashton, Peter, Novak, Giles, Angile, Francesco E., Devlin, Mark J., Galitzki, Nicholas, Ade, Peter, Doyle, SImon, Pascale, Enzo, Pisano, Giampaolo, Tucker, Carole E.
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: McMurdo Station; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/156796/; https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2016AAS.22714602S

The Next Generation Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST-TNG) is an experiment designed to map magnetic fields in molecular clouds in order to study their role in the star formation process. The telescope will be launched aboard a high-altitude balloon in December 2016 for a 4...