The balloon-borne large-aperture submillimeter telescope for polarimetry-BLASTPol: performance and results from the 2010 Antarctic flight

Enzo Pascale; Peter A. R. Ade; Francesco E. Angilè; Steven J. Benton; Mark J. Devlin; Brad Dober; Laura M. Fissel; Yasuo Fukui; Natalie N. Gandilo; Joshua O. Gundersen; Peter C. Hargrave; Jeffrey Klein; Andrei L. Korotkov; Tristan G. Matthews; Lorenzo Moncelsi; Tony K. Mroczkowski; C. Barth Netterfield; Giles Novak; David Nutter; Luca Olmi; Frédérick Poidevin; Giorgio Savini; Douglas Scott; Jamil A. Shariff; Juan Diego Soler; Nicholas E. Thomas; Matthew D. P. Truch; Carole E. Tucker; Gregory S. Tucker; Derek Ward-Thompson

doi:10.1117/12.927211

27 September 2012 The balloon-borne large-aperture submillimeter telescope for polarimetry-BLASTPol: performance and results from the 2010 Antarctic flight

Enzo Pascale, Peter A. R. Ade, Francesco E. Angilè, Steven J. Benton, Mark J. Devlin, Brad Dober, Laura M. Fissel, Yasuo Fukui, Natalie N. Gandilo, Joshua O. Gundersen, Peter C. Hargrave, Jeffrey Klein, Andrei L. Korotkov, Tristan G. Matthews, Lorenzo Moncelsi, Tony K. Mroczkowski, C. Barth Netterfield, Giles Novak, David Nutter, Luca Olmi, Frédérick Poidevin, Giorgio Savini, Douglas Scott, Jamil A. Shariff, Juan Diego Soler, Nicholas E. Thomas, Matthew D. P. Truch, Carole E. Tucker, Gregory S. Tucker, Derek Ward-Thompson

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Proceedings Volume 8444, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes IV; 844415 (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.927211
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2012, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Abstract

The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for Polarimetry (BLASTPol) is a suborbital mapping experiment designed to study the role played by magnetic fields in the star formation process. BLASTPol uses a total power instrument and an achromatic half-wave plate to modulate the polarization signal. During its first flight from Antarctica in December 2010, BLASTPol made degree scale maps of linearly polarized dust emission from molecular clouds in three wavebands centered at 250, 350, and 500 μm. This unprecedented dataset in terms of sky coverage, with sub-arcminute resolution, allows BLASTPol to trace magnetic fields in star-forming regions at scales ranging from cores to entire molecular cloud complexes. A second long-duration flight is scheduled for December 2012.

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Enzo Pascale, Peter A. R. Ade, Francesco E. Angilè, Steven J. Benton, Mark J. Devlin, Brad Dober, Laura M. Fissel, Yasuo Fukui, Natalie N. Gandilo, Joshua O. Gundersen, Peter C. Hargrave, Jeffrey Klein, Andrei L. Korotkov, Tristan G. Matthews, Lorenzo Moncelsi, Tony K. Mroczkowski, C. Barth Netterfield, Giles Novak, David Nutter, Luca Olmi, Frédérick Poidevin, Giorgio Savini, Douglas Scott, Jamil A. Shariff, Juan Diego Soler, Nicholas E. Thomas, Matthew D. P. Truch, Carole E. Tucker, Gregory S. Tucker, and Derek Ward-Thompson "The balloon-borne large-aperture submillimeter telescope for polarimetry-BLASTPol: performance and results from the 2010 Antarctic flight", Proc. SPIE 8444, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes IV, 844415 (27 September 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.927211

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