The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope: BLAST

• Published in: The Astrophysical Journal
• Main Authors: Pascale, Enzo, Ade, Peter A. R., Bock, J. J., Chapin, E. L., Chung, J., Devlin, M. J., Dicker, S, Griffin, Matthew Joseph, Gundersen, J. O., Halpern, M., Hargrave, Peter Charles, Hughes, D. H., Klein, J., MacTavish, C. J., Marsden, G., Martin, P. G., Martin, T. G., Mauskopf, Philip Daniel, Netterfield, C. B., Olmi, L., Patanchon, G., Rex, M., Scott, D., Semisch, C., Thomas, N., Truch, M. D. P., Tucker, Carole Elizabeth, Tucker, G. S., Viero, M. P., Wiebe, D. V.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: IOP Publishing 2008
• Subjects: Kiruna; Canada; McMurdo Station; Esrange; Milky Way; Antarc*; Antarctica; Victoria Island; victoria island
• Online Access: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/7335/; https://doi.org/10.1086/588541

The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) is a suborbital surveying experiment designed to study the evolutionary history and processes of star formation in local galaxies (including the Milky Way) and galaxies at cosmological distances. The BLAST continuum camera, which consi...