The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for Polarimetry-BLASTPol: performance and results from the 2012 Antarctic flight

Bibcode
2014SPIE.9145E..0RG
DOI
10.1117/12.2054759
Galitzki, N.; Ade, P. A. R.; Angilè, F. E.; Benton, S. J.; Devlin, M. J.; Dober, B.; Fissel, L. M.; Fukui, Y.; Gandilo, N. N.; Klein, J.; Korotkov, A. L.; Matthews, T. G.; Moncelsi, L.; Netterfield, C. B.; Novak, G.; Nutter, D.; Pascale, E.; Poidevin, F.; Savini, G.; Scott, D.; Shariff, J. A.; Soler, J. D.; Tucker, C. E.; Tucker, G. S.; Ward-Thompson, D.
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Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 9145, id. 91450R 11 pp. (2014).

Fecha de publicación:
7
2014
Número de autores
25
Número de autores del IAC
1
Número de citas
23
Número de citas referidas
17
Descripción
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.
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