@inproceedings{ec940433b8474b2dbcb2d8d42be69060,
title = "The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for Polarimetry-BLASTPol: Performance and results from the 2012 Antarctic flight",
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 observes polarized light using a total power instrument, photolithographic polarizing grids, and an achromatic half-wave plate to modulate the polarization signal. During its second flight from Antarctica in December 2012, BLASTPol made degree scale maps of linearly polarized dust emission from molecular clouds in three wavebands, centered at 250, 350, and 500 μm. The instrumental performance was an improvement over the 2010 BLASTPol ight, with decreased systematics resulting in a higher number of confirmed polarization vectors. The resultant dataset allows BLASTPol to trace magnetic fields in star-forming regions at scales ranging from cores to entire molecular cloud complexes.",
keywords = "balloons, dust emission, polarization, star formation, submillimeter, telescopes",
author = "N. Galitzki and Ade, {P. A.R.} and Angil{\`e}, {F. E.} and Benton, {S. J.} and Devlin, {M. J.} and B. Dober and Fissel, {L. M.} and Y. Fukui and Gandilo, {N. N.} and J. Klein and Korotkov, {A. L.} and Matthews, {T. G.} and L. Moncelsi and Netterfield, {C. B.} and G. Novak and D. Nutter and E. Pascale and F. Poidevin and G. Savini and D. Scott and Shariff, {J. A.} and Soler, {J. D.} and Tucker, {C. E.} and Tucker, {G. S.} and D. Ward-Thompson",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2014 SPIE.; Ground-Based and Airborne Telescopes V ; Conference date: 22-06-2014 Through 27-06-2014",
year = "2014",
doi = "10.1117/12.2054759",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
publisher = "SPIE",
editor = "Hall, {Helen J.} and Stepp, {Larry M.} and Roberto Gilmozzi",
booktitle = "Ground-Based and Airborne Telescopes V",
address = "United States",
}