The next-generation BLASTPol experiment
The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for Polarimetry (BLASTPol) is a suborbital mapping experiment designed to study the role magnetic fields play in star formation. BLASTPol has had two science flights from McMurdo Station, Antarctica in 2010 and 2012. These flights have produce...
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The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for Polarimetry (BLASTPol) is a suborbital mapping experiment designed to study the role magnetic fields play in star formation. BLASTPol has had two science flights from McMurdo Station, Antarctica in 2010 and 2012. These flights have produced thousands of polarization vectors at 250, 350 and 500 microns in several molecular cloud targets. We present the design, specifications, and progress towards the next-generation BLASTPol experiment (BLAST-TNG). BLAST-TNG will fly a 40% larger diameter primary mirror, with almost 8 times the number of polarization-sensitive detectors resulting in a factor of 16 increase in mapping speed. With a spatial resolution of 2200 and four times the field of view (340 arcmin2) of BLASTPol, BLAST-TNG will bridge the angular scales between Planck's all-sky maps with 50 resolution and ALMA's ultra-high resolution narrow (~ 2000) fields. The new receiver has a larger cryogenics volume, allowing for a 28 day hold time. BLAST-TNG employs three arrays of Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (MKIDs) with 30% fractional bandwidth at 250, 350 and 500 microns. In this paper, we will present the new BLAST-TNG instrument and science objectives. © (2014) COPYRIGHT Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only. |
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ftunivcardiff:oai:https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk:79491 2023-05-15T13:38:38+02:00 The next-generation BLASTPol experiment Dober, Bradley J. Ade, Peter Ashton, Peter Angilè, Francesco E. Beall, James A. Becker, Dan Bradford, Kristi J. Che, George Cho, Hsiao-Mei Devlin, Mark J. Fissel, Laura M. Fukui, Yasuo Galitzki, Nicholas Gao, Jiansong Groppi, Christopher E. Hillbrand, Seth Hilton, Gene C. Hubmayr, Johannes Irwin, Kent D. Klein, Jeffrey Van Lanen, Jeff Li, Dale Li, Zhi-Yun Lourie, Nathan P. Mani, Hamdi Martin, Peter G. Mauskopf, Philip Daniel Nakamura, Fumitaka Novak, Giles Pappas, David P. Pascale, Enzo Santos, Fabio P. Savini, Giorgio Scott, Douglas Stanchfield, Sara Ullom, Joel N. Underhill, Matthew Vissers, Michael R. Ward-Thompson, Derek Holland, Wayne S. Zmuidzinas, Jonas 2014-07-23 https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/79491/ https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2054419 unknown Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers Dober, Bradley J., Ade, Peter https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/view/cardiffauthors/A0479492.html orcid:0000-0002-5127-0401 orcid:0000-0002-5127-0401, Ashton, Peter, Angilè, Francesco E., Beall, James A., Becker, Dan, Bradford, Kristi J., Che, George, Cho, Hsiao-Mei, Devlin, Mark J., Fissel, Laura M., Fukui, Yasuo, Galitzki, Nicholas, Gao, Jiansong, Groppi, Christopher E., Hillbrand, Seth, Hilton, Gene C., Hubmayr, Johannes, Irwin, Kent D., Klein, Jeffrey, Van Lanen, Jeff, Li, Dale, Li, Zhi-Yun, Lourie, Nathan P., Mani, Hamdi, Martin, Peter G., Mauskopf, Philip Daniel https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/view/cardiffauthors/A0247312.html orcid:0000-0001-6397-5516 orcid:0000-0001-6397-5516, Nakamura, Fumitaka, Novak, Giles, Pappas, David P., Pascale, Enzo https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/view/cardiffauthors/A1208841.html orcid:0000-0002-3242-8154 orcid:0000-0002-3242-8154, Santos, Fabio P., Savini, Giorgio https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/view/cardiffauthors/A063414R.html, Scott, Douglas, Stanchfield, Sara, Ullom, Joel N., Underhill, Matthew, Vissers, Michael R. and Ward-Thompson, Derek 2014. The next-generation BLASTPol experiment. Presented at: Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation 2014, Published in: Holland, Wayne S. and Zmuidzinas, Jonas eds. Proceedings SPIE 9153, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy VII. Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers, 91530H. 10.1117/12.2054419 https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2054419 doi:10.1117/12.2054419 QB Astronomy Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed 2014 ftunivcardiff https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2054419 2022-11-03T23:35:01Z The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for Polarimetry (BLASTPol) is a suborbital mapping experiment designed to study the role magnetic fields play in star formation. BLASTPol has had two science flights from McMurdo Station, Antarctica in 2010 and 2012. These flights have produced thousands of polarization vectors at 250, 350 and 500 microns in several molecular cloud targets. We present the design, specifications, and progress towards the next-generation BLASTPol experiment (BLAST-TNG). BLAST-TNG will fly a 40% larger diameter primary mirror, with almost 8 times the number of polarization-sensitive detectors resulting in a factor of 16 increase in mapping speed. With a spatial resolution of 2200 and four times the field of view (340 arcmin2) of BLASTPol, BLAST-TNG will bridge the angular scales between Planck's all-sky maps with 50 resolution and ALMA's ultra-high resolution narrow (~ 2000) fields. The new receiver has a larger cryogenics volume, allowing for a 28 day hold time. BLAST-TNG employs three arrays of Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (MKIDs) with 30% fractional bandwidth at 250, 350 and 500 microns. In this paper, we will present the new BLAST-TNG instrument and science objectives. © (2014) COPYRIGHT Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only. Conference Object Antarc* Antarctica Cardiff University: ORCA (Online Research @ Cardiff) McMurdo Station ENVELOPE(166.667,166.667,-77.850,-77.850) SPIE Proceedings, Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy VII 9153 91530H |