The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) 2006: Calibration and Flight Performance
Maps available at http://blastexperiment.info/ The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) operated successfully during a 250-hour flight over Antarctica in December 2006 (BLAST06). As part of the calibration and pointing procedures, the red hypergiant star VY CMa was observed a...
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ftunivnantes:oai:HAL:in2p3-00376764v1 2023-05-15T13:34:11+02:00 The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) 2006: Calibration and Flight Performance Truch, M.D.P. Ade, Peter A. R. Bock, James J. Chapin, Edward L. Devlin, Mark J. Dicker, Simon R. Griffin, Matthew Gundersen, Joshua O. Halpern, Mark Hargrave, Peter C. Hughes, David H. Klein, Jeff Marsden, Gaelen Martin, Peter G. Mauskopf, Philip Moncelsi, Lorenzo Netterfield, Calvin B. Olmi, Luca Pascale, Enzo Patanchon, G. Rex, Marie Scott, Douglas Semisch, Christopher Thomas, Nicholas E. Tucker, Carole Tucker, Gregory S. Viero, Marco P. Wiebe, Donald V. APC - Cosmologie AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)) Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) 2009 https://hal.in2p3.fr/in2p3-00376764 https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/707/2/1723 en eng HAL CCSD American Astronomical Society info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/arxiv/0904.1202 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1088/0004-637X/707/2/1723 in2p3-00376764 https://hal.in2p3.fr/in2p3-00376764 ARXIV: 0904.1202 BIBCODE: 2009ApJ.707.1723T doi:10.1088/0004-637X/707/2/1723 ISSN: 0004-637X EISSN: 1538-4357 The Astrophysical Journal https://hal.in2p3.fr/in2p3-00376764 The Astrophysical Journal, 2009, 707, pp.1723-1728. ⟨10.1088/0004-637X/707/2/1723⟩ balloons submillimeter telescopes [PHYS.ASTR.IM]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM] [SDU.ASTR.IM]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM] info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2009 ftunivnantes https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/707/2/1723 2023-03-08T01:28:20Z Maps available at http://blastexperiment.info/ The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) operated successfully during a 250-hour flight over Antarctica in December 2006 (BLAST06). As part of the calibration and pointing procedures, the red hypergiant star VY CMa was observed and used as the primary calibrator. Details of the overall BLAST06 calibration procedure are discussed. The 1-sigma absolute calibration is accurate to 10, 12, and 13% at the 250, 350, and 500 micron bands, respectively. The errors are highly correlated between bands resulting in much lower error for the derived shape of the 250-500 micron continuum. The overall pointing error is <5" rms for the 36, 42, and 60" beams. The performance of the optics and pointing systems is discussed. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctica Université de Nantes: HAL-UNIV-NANTES The Astrophysical Journal 707 2 1723 1728 |
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Maps available at http://blastexperiment.info/ The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) operated successfully during a 250-hour flight over Antarctica in December 2006 (BLAST06). As part of the calibration and pointing procedures, the red hypergiant star VY CMa was observed and used as the primary calibrator. Details of the overall BLAST06 calibration procedure are discussed. The 1-sigma absolute calibration is accurate to 10, 12, and 13% at the 250, 350, and 500 micron bands, respectively. The errors are highly correlated between bands resulting in much lower error for the derived shape of the 250-500 micron continuum. The overall pointing error is <5" rms for the 36, 42, and 60" beams. The performance of the optics and pointing systems is discussed. |
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Truch, M.D.P. Ade, Peter A. R. Bock, James J. Chapin, Edward L. Devlin, Mark J. Dicker, Simon R. Griffin, Matthew Gundersen, Joshua O. Halpern, Mark Hargrave, Peter C. Hughes, David H. Klein, Jeff Marsden, Gaelen Martin, Peter G. Mauskopf, Philip Moncelsi, Lorenzo Netterfield, Calvin B. Olmi, Luca Pascale, Enzo Patanchon, G. Rex, Marie Scott, Douglas Semisch, Christopher Thomas, Nicholas E. Tucker, Carole Tucker, Gregory S. Viero, Marco P. Wiebe, Donald V. |
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Truch, M.D.P. Ade, Peter A. R. Bock, James J. Chapin, Edward L. Devlin, Mark J. Dicker, Simon R. Griffin, Matthew Gundersen, Joshua O. Halpern, Mark Hargrave, Peter C. Hughes, David H. Klein, Jeff Marsden, Gaelen Martin, Peter G. Mauskopf, Philip Moncelsi, Lorenzo Netterfield, Calvin B. Olmi, Luca Pascale, Enzo Patanchon, G. Rex, Marie Scott, Douglas Semisch, Christopher Thomas, Nicholas E. Tucker, Carole Tucker, Gregory S. Viero, Marco P. Wiebe, Donald V. |
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The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) 2006: Calibration and Flight Performance |
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The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) 2006: Calibration and Flight Performance |
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The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) 2006: Calibration and Flight Performance |
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The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) 2006: Calibration and Flight Performance |
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The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) 2006: Calibration and Flight Performance |
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balloon-borne large aperture submillimeter telescope (blast) 2006: calibration and flight performance |
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