The Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for polarization: BLAST-pol

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7020, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Marsden, G ^a   Ade, P A R ^b   Benton, S ^c   Bock, J J ^d,e   Chapin, E L ^a   Chung, J ^a,c   Devlin, M J ^f   Dicker, S ^f   Fissel, L ^c   Griffin, M ^b   Gundersen, J O ^g   Halpern, M ^a   Hargrave, P C ^b   Hughes, D H ^h   Klein, J ^f   Korotkov, A ⁱ   MacTavish, C J ^c   Martin, P G ^c,j   Martin, T G ^c   Matthews, T G ^k   Mauskopf, P ^b   Moncelsi, L ^b   Netterfield, C B ^c   Novak, G ^k   Pascale, E ^b   Olmi, L ^l,m   Patanchon, G ^a,n   Rex, M ^f   Savini, G ^b   Scott, D ^a   Semisch, C ^f   Thomas, N ^g   Truch, M D P ^f   Tucker, C ^b   Tucker, G S ⁱ   Viero, M P ^c   Ward Thompson, D ^b   Wiebe, D V ^c   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^g Department of Biology   (United States)

^h INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ASTROFÍSICA   (Mexico)

ⁱ BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^k NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l Istituto di Radioastronomia   (Italy)

^m UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

ⁿ UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

more..

Author keywords

Balloons; Instrumentation:miscellaneous; Polarization; Stars:formation; Submillimeter

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTICA; BOLOMETRIC DETECTORS; CASSEGRAIN TELESCOPES; COSMOLOGICAL DISTANCES; DIFFRACTION-LIMITED; FOCAL PLANES; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; INSTRUMENTATION:MISCELLANEOUS; LARGE APERTURES; MILKY WAY; OPTICAL-; POLARIZATION; POSITIONAL ACCURACY; POST-FLIGHT ANALYSIS; STAR FORMATION; STARS:FORMATION; SUBMILLIMETER; WIDE BANDS;

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; ASTRONOMY; ASTROPHYSICS; BALLOONS; COSMOLOGY; EXPLOSIVES; FOCUSING; GALAXIES; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PHOTOGRAPHY; TELESCOPES;

RADIO TELESCOPES;

EID: 52249092860     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.788413     Document Type: Conference Paper

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