In-flight performance of the BLAST-TNG telescope platform

The Next Generation Balloon-Borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST-TNG) was a unique instrument for characterizing the polarized submillimeter sky at high-angular resolution. BLAST-TNG flew from the Long Duration Balloon Facility in Antarctica in January 2020. Despite the short flight d...

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Published in:Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes VIII
Main Authors: Gabriele Coppi, Peter A. Ade, Peter C. Ashton, Jason E. Austermann, Erin G. Cox, Mark J. Devlin, Bradley J. Dober, Valentina Fanfani, Laura M. Fissel, Nicholas B. Galitzki, Jiansong Gao, Samuel Gordon, Christopher E. Groppi, Gene C. Hilton, Johannes Hubmayr, Jeffrey Klein, Dale Li, Ian Lowe, Nathan P. Lourie, Christopher Mckinney, Hamdi Mani, Philip D. Mauskopf, Federico Nati, Giles Novak, Giampaolo Pisano, Javier L. Romualdez, Adrian K. Sinclair, Juan D. Soler, Carole Tucker, Joel Ullom, Michael Visser, Caleb H. Wheeler, Paul A. Williams
Other Authors: Coppi, Gabriele, Ade, Peter A., Ashton, Peter C., Austermann, Jason E., Cox, Erin G., Devlin, Mark J., Dober, Bradley J., Fanfani, Valentina, Fissel, Laura M., Galitzki, Nicholas B., Gao, Jiansong, Gordon, Samuel, Groppi, Christopher E., Hilton, Gene C., Hubmayr, Johanne, Klein, Jeffrey, Li, Dale, Lowe, Ian, Lourie, Nathan P., Mckinney, Christopher, Mani, Hamdi, Mauskopf, Philip D., Nati, Federico, Novak, Gile, Pisano, Giampaolo, Romualdez, Javier L., Sinclair, Adrian K., Soler, Juan D., Tucker, Carole, Ullom, Joel, Visser, Michael, Wheeler, Caleb H., Williams, Paul A.
Format: Conference Object
Language:English
Published: SPIE 2020
Subjects:
Sub-millimetre astronomy
instrumentation
balloon-borne experiments
Antarc*
Antarctica
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11573/1585432
https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2560849
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Summary:The Next Generation Balloon-Borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST-TNG) was a unique instrument for characterizing the polarized submillimeter sky at high-angular resolution. BLAST-TNG flew from the Long Duration Balloon Facility in Antarctica in January 2020. Despite the short flight duration, the instrument worked very well and is providing significant information about each subsystem that will be invaluable for future balloon missions. In this contribution, we discuss the performance of telescope and gondola.

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