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

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 OlmiFrédérick 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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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.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Ground-Based and Airborne Telescopes IV
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.927211
State	Published - 2012
Event	Ground-Based and Airborne Telescopes IV - Amsterdam, Netherlands Duration: Jul 1 2012 → Jul 6 2012

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Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	8444
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X

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Other	Ground-Based and Airborne Telescopes IV
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	Amsterdam
Period	7/1/12 → 7/6/12

Keywords

Balloons
Dust emission
Instrumentation: miscellaneous
Polarization
Stars:formation
Submillimeter

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Condensed Matter Physics
Computer Science Applications
Applied Mathematics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Pascale, E., Ade, P. A. R., Angilè, F. E., Benton, S. J., Devlin, M. J., Dober, B., Fissel, L. M., Fukui, Y., Gandilo, N. N., Gundersen, J. O., Hargrave, P. C., Klein, J., Korotkov, A. L., Matthews, T. G., Moncelsi, L., Mroczkowski, T. K., Netterfield, C. B., Novak, G., Nutter, D., ... Ward-Thompson, D. (2012). The Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for Polarimetry-BLASTPol: Performance and results from the 2010 Antarctic flight. In Ground-Based and Airborne Telescopes IV Article 844415 (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 8444). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.927211

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The Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for Polarimetry-BLASTPol: Performance and results from the 2010 Antarctic flight. / Pascale, Enzo; Ade, Peter A.R.; Angilè, Francesco E. et al.
Ground-Based and Airborne Telescopes IV. 2012. 844415 (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 8444).

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