BLAST: Balloon-Borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope
BLAST is the Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Sub-millimeter Telescope. It will fly from a Long Duration Balloon (LDB) platform from Antarctica. The telescope design incorporates a 2 m primary mirror with large-format bolometer arrays operating at 250, 350 and 500 microns. By providing the first sensiti...
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ftunivcardiff:oai:https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk:42336 2023-05-15T13:31:07+02:00 BLAST: Balloon-Borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope Devlin, Mark Ade, Peter A. R. Bock, Jamie Dicker, Simon Griffin, Matthew Joseph Gundersen, Josh Halpern, Mark Hargrave, Peter Charles Hughes, David Klein, Jeff Mauskopf, Philip Daniel Netterfield, Barth Olima, Luca Scott, Douglas Tucker, Greg 2002-03 https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/42336/ http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2004ncfi.conf.317D unknown Devlin, Mark, Ade, Peter A. R. https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/view/cardiffauthors/A0479492.html orcid:0000-0002-5127-0401 orcid:0000-0002-5127-0401, Bock, Jamie, Dicker, Simon, Griffin, Matthew Joseph https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/view/cardiffauthors/A040197E.html orcid:0000-0002-0033-177X orcid:0000-0002-0033-177X, Gundersen, Josh, Halpern, Mark, Hargrave, Peter Charles https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/view/cardiffauthors/A0092488.html orcid:0000-0002-3109-6629 orcid:0000-0002-3109-6629, Hughes, David, Klein, Jeff, Mauskopf, Philip Daniel https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/view/cardiffauthors/A0247312.html orcid:0000-0001-6397-5516 orcid:0000-0001-6397-5516, Netterfield, Barth, Olima, Luca, Scott, Douglas and Tucker, Greg 2002. BLAST: Balloon-Borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope. Presented at: Second Workshop on New Concepts for Far-Infrared and Submillimeter Space Astronomy, College Park, MD, USA, 7-8 March 2002. QB Astronomy Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed 2002 ftunivcardiff 2022-10-27T22:34:22Z BLAST is the Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Sub-millimeter Telescope. It will fly from a Long Duration Balloon (LDB) platform from Antarctica. The telescope design incorporates a 2 m primary mirror with large-format bolometer arrays operating at 250, 350 and 500 microns. By providing the first sensitive large-area (10 sq. deg.) sub-mm surveys at these wavelengths, BLAST will address some of the most important galactic and cosmological questions regarding the formation and evolution of stars, galaxies and clusters. Galactic and extragalactic BLAST surveys will: (i) identify large numbers of high-redshift galaxies; (ii) measure photometric redshifts, rest-frame FIR luminosities and star formation rates thereby constraining the evolutionary history of the galaxies that produce the FIR and sub-mm background; (iii) measure cold pre-stellar sources associated with the earliest stages of star and planet formation; (iv) make high-resolution maps of diffuse galactic emission over a wide range of galactic latitudes. In addition to achieving the above scientific goals, the exciting legacy of the BLAST LDB experiment will be a catalogue of 3000-5000 extragalactic sub-mm sources and a 100 sq. deg. sub-mm galactic plane survey. Multi-frequency follow-up observations from SIRTF, ASTRO-F, and Herschel, together with spectroscopic observations and sub-arcsecond imaging from ALMA are essential to understand the physical nature of the BLAST sources. Conference Object Antarc* Antarctica Cardiff University: ORCA (Online Research @ Cardiff) |
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BLAST is the Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Sub-millimeter Telescope. It will fly from a Long Duration Balloon (LDB) platform from Antarctica. The telescope design incorporates a 2 m primary mirror with large-format bolometer arrays operating at 250, 350 and 500 microns. By providing the first sensitive large-area (10 sq. deg.) sub-mm surveys at these wavelengths, BLAST will address some of the most important galactic and cosmological questions regarding the formation and evolution of stars, galaxies and clusters. Galactic and extragalactic BLAST surveys will: (i) identify large numbers of high-redshift galaxies; (ii) measure photometric redshifts, rest-frame FIR luminosities and star formation rates thereby constraining the evolutionary history of the galaxies that produce the FIR and sub-mm background; (iii) measure cold pre-stellar sources associated with the earliest stages of star and planet formation; (iv) make high-resolution maps of diffuse galactic emission over a wide range of galactic latitudes. In addition to achieving the above scientific goals, the exciting legacy of the BLAST LDB experiment will be a catalogue of 3000-5000 extragalactic sub-mm sources and a 100 sq. deg. sub-mm galactic plane survey. Multi-frequency follow-up observations from SIRTF, ASTRO-F, and Herschel, together with spectroscopic observations and sub-arcsecond imaging from ALMA are essential to understand the physical nature of the BLAST sources. |
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Devlin, Mark Ade, Peter A. R. Bock, Jamie Dicker, Simon Griffin, Matthew Joseph Gundersen, Josh Halpern, Mark Hargrave, Peter Charles Hughes, David Klein, Jeff Mauskopf, Philip Daniel Netterfield, Barth Olima, Luca Scott, Douglas Tucker, Greg |
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Devlin, Mark Ade, Peter A. R. Bock, Jamie Dicker, Simon Griffin, Matthew Joseph Gundersen, Josh Halpern, Mark Hargrave, Peter Charles Hughes, David Klein, Jeff Mauskopf, Philip Daniel Netterfield, Barth Olima, Luca Scott, Douglas Tucker, Greg |
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BLAST: Balloon-Borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope |
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BLAST: Balloon-Borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope |
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BLAST: Balloon-Borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope |
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BLAST: Balloon-Borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope |
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BLAST: Balloon-Borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope |
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blast: balloon-borne large aperture submillimeter telescope |
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Devlin, Mark, Ade, Peter A. R. https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/view/cardiffauthors/A0479492.html orcid:0000-0002-5127-0401 orcid:0000-0002-5127-0401, Bock, Jamie, Dicker, Simon, Griffin, Matthew Joseph https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/view/cardiffauthors/A040197E.html orcid:0000-0002-0033-177X orcid:0000-0002-0033-177X, Gundersen, Josh, Halpern, Mark, Hargrave, Peter Charles https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/view/cardiffauthors/A0092488.html orcid:0000-0002-3109-6629 orcid:0000-0002-3109-6629, Hughes, David, Klein, Jeff, Mauskopf, Philip Daniel https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/view/cardiffauthors/A0247312.html orcid:0000-0001-6397-5516 orcid:0000-0001-6397-5516, Netterfield, Barth, Olima, Luca, Scott, Douglas and Tucker, Greg 2002. BLAST: Balloon-Borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope. Presented at: Second Workshop on New Concepts for Far-Infrared and Submillimeter Space Astronomy, College Park, MD, USA, 7-8 March 2002. |
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