The balloon-borne large aperture sub-millimetre telescope

D. Scott; P. Ade; J. Bock; P. DeBernardis; M. Devlin; M. Griffin; J. Gundersen; M. Halpern; D. Hughes; J. Klein; S. Masi; P. Mauskopf; B. Netterfield; L. Olmi; L. Page; G. Tucker

The balloon-borne large aperture sub-millimetre telescope

D. Scott, P. Ade, J. Bock, P. DeBernardis, M. Devlin, M. Griffin, J. Gundersen, M. Halpern, D. Hughes, J. Klein, S. Masi, P. Mauskopf, B. Netterfield, L. Olmi, L. Page, G. Tucker

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Abstract

The Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Sub-millimetre Telescope (BLAST) will operate on a Long Duration Balloon platform with large format bolometer arrays at 250, 350 and 500 μm, initially using a 2.0 m mirror, with plans to increase to 2.5 m. BLAST is a collaboration between scientists in the USA, Canada, UK, Italy and Mexico. Funding has been approved and it is now in its building phase. The test flight is scheduled for 2002, with the first long duration flight the following year. The scientific goals are to learn about the nature of distant extragalactic star forming galaxies and cold pre-stellar sources by making deep maps both at high and low galactic latitudes. BLAST will be useful for planning Herschel key projects which use SPIRE.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	305-308
Number of pages	4
Journal	European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP
Issue number	460
State	Published - 2001
Externally published	Yes
Event	The Promise of the Herschel Space Observatory - Toledo, Spain Duration: Dec 12 2000 → Dec 15 2000

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Aerospace Engineering
Space and Planetary Science

Keywords

Balloons
Cosmology: observations
Dust
Galaxies: evolution
Submillimeter

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The balloon-borne large aperture sub-millimetre telescope

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