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The Next Generation BLAST Experiment

The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for Polarimetry (BLASTPol) was a suborbital experiment designed to map magnetic fields in order to study their role in star formation processes. BLASTPol made detailed polarization…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-13 Nicholas Galitzki , Peter A. R. Ade , Francesco E. Angilè , Peter Ashton , James A. Beall , Dan Becker , Kristi J. Bradford , George Che , Hsiao-Mei Cho , Mark J. Devlin , Bradley J. Dober , Laura M. Fissel , Yasuo Fukui , Jiansong Gao , Christopher E. Groppi , Seth Hillbrand , Gene C. Hilton , Johannes Hubmayr , Kent D. Irwin , Jeffrey Klein , Jeff Van Lanen , Dale Li , Zhi-Yun Li , Nathan P. Lourie , Hamdi Mani , Peter G. Martin , Philip Mauskopf , Fumitaka Nakamura , Giles Novak , David P. Pappas , Enzo Pascale , Giampaolo Pisano , Fabio P. Santos , Giorgio Savini , Douglas Scott , Sara Stanchfield , Carole Tucker , Joel N. Ullom , Matthew Underhill , Michael R. Vissers , Derek Ward-Thompson

Attitude determination for balloon-borne experiments

An attitude determination system for balloon-borne experiments is presented. The system provides pointing information in azimuth and elevation for instruments flying on stratospheric balloons over Antarctica. In-flight attitude is given by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 N. N. Gandilo , P. A. R. Ade , M. Amiri , F. E. Angile , S. J. Benton , J. J. Bock , J. R. Bond , S. A. Bryan , H. C. Chiang , C. R. Contaldi , B. P. Crill , M. J. Devlin , B. Dober , O. P. Dore , M. Farhang , J. P. Filippini , L. M. Fissel , A. A. Fraisse , Y. Fukui , N. Galitzki , A. E. Gambrel , S. Golwala , J. E. Gudmundsson , M. Halpern , M. Hasselfield , G. C. Hilton , W. A. Holmes , V. V. Hristov , K. D. Irwin , W. C. Jones , Z. D. Kermish , J. Klein , A. L. Korotkov , C. L. Kuo , C. J. MacTavish , P. V. Mason , T. G. Matthews , K. G. Megerian , L. Moncelsi , T. A. Morford , T. K. Mroczkowski , J. M. Nagy , C. B. Netterfield , G. Novak , D. Nutter , R. O'Brient , E. Pascale , F. Poidevin , A. S. Rahlin , C. D. Reintsema , J. E. Ruhl , M. C. Runyan , G. Savini , D. Scott , J. A. Shariff , J. D. Soler , N. E. Thomas , A. Trangsrud , M. D. Truch , C. E. Tucker , G. S. Tucker , R. S. Tucker , A. D. Turner , D. Ward-Thompson , A. C. Weber , D. V. Wiebe , E. Y. Young

The next-generation BLASTPol experiment

The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for Polarimetry (BLASTPol) is a suborbital mapping experiment designed to study the role magnetic fields play in star formation. BLASTPol has had two science flights from McMurdo…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Bradley Dober , Peter A. R. Ade , Peter Ashton , Francesco E. Angilè , James A. Beall , Dan Becker , Kristi J. Bradford , George Che , Hsiao-Mei Cho , Mark J. Devlin , Laura M. Fissel , Yasuo Fukui , Nicholas Galitzki , Jiansong Gao , Christopher E. Groppi , Seth Hillbrand , Gene C. Hilton , Johannes Hubmayr , Kent D. Irwin , Jeffrey Klein , Jeff Van Lanen , Dale Li , Zhi-Yun Li , Nathan P. Lourie , Hamdi Mani , Peter G. Martin , Philip Mauskopf , Fumitaka Nakamura , Giles Novak , David P. Pappas , Enzo Pascale , Fabio P. Santos , Giorgio Savini , Douglas Scott , Sara Stanchfield , Joel N. Ullom , Matthew Underhill , Michael R. Vissers , Derek Ward-Thompson

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

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 N. Galitzki , P. A. R. Ade , F. E. Angilé , S. J. Benton , M. J. Devlin , B. Dober , L. M. Fissel , Y. Fukui , N. N. Gandilo , J. Klein , A. L. Korotkov , T. G. Matthews , L. Moncelsi , C. B. Netterfield , G. Novak , D. Nutter , E. Pascale , F. Poidevin , G. Savini , D. Scott , J. A. Shariff , J. D. Soler , C. E. Tucker , G. S. Tucker , D. Ward-Thompson

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

The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) is a sub-orbital experiment designed to study the process of star formation in local galaxies (including the Milky Way) and in galaxies at cosmological distances. Using a 2-m…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Marsden , P. A. R. Ade , S. Benton , J. J. Bock , E. L. Chapin , J. Chung , M. J. Devlin , S. Dicker , L. Fissel , M. Griffin , J. O. Gundersen , M. Halpern , P. C. Hargrave , D. H. Hughes , J. Klein , A. Korotkov , C. J. MacTavish , P. G. Martin , T. G. Martin , T. G. Matthews , P. Mauskopf , L. Moncelsi , C. B. Netterfield , G. Novak , E. Pascale , L. Olmi , G. Patanchon , M. Rex , G. Savini , D. Scott , C. Semisch , N. Thomas , M. D. P. Truch , C. Tucker , G. S. Tucker , M. P. Viero , D. Ward-Thompson , D. V. Wiebe

The balloon-borne large-aperture submillimeter telescope for polarimetry: BLAST-Pol

The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for Polarimetry (BLAST-Pol) is a suborbital mapping experiment designed to study the role played by magnetic fields in the star formation process. BLAST-Pol is the reconstructed BLAST…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Laura M. Fissel , Peter A. R. Ade , Francesco E. Angile , Steven J. Benton , Edward L. Chapin , Mark J. Devlin , Natalie N. Gandilo , Joshua O. Gundersen , Peter C. Hargrave , David H. Hughes , Jeffrey Klein , Andrei L. Korotkov , Galen Marsden , Tristan G. Matthews , Lorenzo Moncelsi , Tony K. Mroczkowski , C. Barth Netterfield , Giles Novak , Luca Olmi , Enzo Pascale , 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 , Donald V. Wiebe

Preflight Characterization of the BLAST-TNG Receiver and Detector Arrays

The Next Generation Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST-TNG) is a submillimeter mapping experiment planned for a 28 day long-duration balloon (LDB) flight from McMurdo Station, Antarctica during the 2018-2019 season.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-28 Nathan P. Lourie , Peter A. R. Ade , Francisco E. Angile , Peter C. Ashton , Jason E. Austermann , Mark J. Devlin , Bradley Dober , Nicholas Galitzki , Jiansong Gao , Sam Gordon , Christopher E. Groppi , Jeffrey Klein , Gene C. Hilton , Johannes Hubmayr , Dale Li , Ian Lowe , Hamdi Mani , Philip Mauskopf , Christopher M. McKenney , Federico Nati , Giles Novak , Enzo Pascale , Giampaolo Pisano , Adrian Sinclair , Juan D. Soler , Carole Tucker , Joel Ullom , Michael Vissers , Paul A. Williams

The EBEX Balloon-Borne Experiment - Gondola, Attitude Control, and Control Software

The E and B Experiment (EBEX) was a long-duration balloon-borne instrument designed to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation. EBEX was the first balloon-borne instrument to implement a kilo-pixel array…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-14 The EBEX Collaboration , Asad Aboobaker , Peter Ade , Derek Araujo , François Aubin , Carlo Baccigalupi , Chaoyun Bao , Daniel Chapman , Joy Didier , Matt Dobbs , Will Grainger , Shaul Hanany , Kyle Helson , Seth Hillbrand , Johannes Hubmayr , Andrew Jaffe , Bradley Johnson , Terry Jones , Jeff Klein , Andrei Korotkov , Adrian Lee , Lorne Levinson , Michele Limon , Kevin MacDermid , Amber D. Miller , Michael Milligan , Lorenzo Moncelsi , Enzo Pascale , Kate Raach , Britt Reichborn-Kjennerud , Ilan Sagiv , Carole Tucker , Gregory S. Tucker , Benjamin Westbrook , Karl Young , Kyle Zilic

An Open Source, FPGA-based LeKID readout for BLAST-TNG: Pre-flight Results

We present a highly frequency multiplexed readout for large-format superconducting detector arrays intended for use in the next generation of balloon-borne and space-based sub-millimeter and far-infrared missions. We will demonstrate this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-11 Samuel Gordon , Bradley Dober , Adrian Sinclair , Samuel Rowe , Sean Bryan , Philip Mauskopf , Jason Austermann , Mark Devlin , Simon Dicker , Jiansong Gao , Gene C. Hilton , Johannes Hubmayr , Glenn Jones , Jeffrey Klein , Nathan P. Lourie , Christopher McKenney , Federico Nati , Juan D. Soler , Matthew Strader , Michael Vissers

The performance of the bolometer array and readout system during the 2012/2013 flight of the E and B experiment (EBEX)

EBEX is a balloon-borne telescope designed to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background radiation. During its eleven day science flight in the Austral Summer of 2012, it operated 955 spider-web transition edge sensor (TES)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Kevin MacDermid , Asad M. Aboobaker , Peter Ade , Francois Aubin , Carlo Baccigalupi , Kevin Bandura , Chaoyun Bao , Julian Borrill , Daniel Chapman , Joy Didier , Matt Dobbs , Julien Grain , Will Grainger , Shaul Hanany , Kyle Helson , Seth Hillbrand , Gene Hilton , Hannes Hubmayr , Kent Irwin , Bradley Johnson , Andrew Jaffe , Terry Jones , Ted Kisner , Jeff Klein , Andrei Korotkov , Adrian Lee , Lorne Levinson , Michele Limon , Amber Miller , Michael Milligan , Enzo Pascale , Kate Raach , Britt Reichborn-Kjennerud , Carl Reintsema , Ilan Sagiv , Graeme Smecher , Radek Stompor , Matthieu Tristram , Greg Tucker , Ben Westbrook , Kyle Zilic

Design and Characterization of a Balloon-Borne Diffraction-Limited Submillimeter Telescope Platform for BLAST-TNG

The Next Generation Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST-TNG) is a submillimeter mapping experiment planned for a 28 day long-duration balloon (LDB) flight from McMurdo Station, Antarctica during the 2018-2019 season.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-28 Nathan P. Lourie , Francisco E. Angile , Peter C. Ashton , Brian Catanzaro , Mark J. Devlin , Simon Dicker , Joy Didier , Bradley Dober , Laura M. Fissel , Nicholas Galitzki , Samuel Gordon , Jeffrey Klein , Ian Lowe , Philip Mauskopf , Federico Nati , Giles Novak , L. Javier Romualdez , Juan D. Soler , Paul A. Williams

The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope: BLAST

The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) is a sub-orbital surveying experiment designed to study the evolutionary history and processes of star formation in local galaxies (including the Milky Way) and galaxies at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-07-03 E. Pascale , P. A. R. Ade , J. J. Bock , E. L. Chapin , J. Chung , M. J. Devlin , S Dicker , M. Griffin , J. O. Gundersen , M. Halpern , P. C. Hargrave , D. H. Hughes , J. Klein , C. J. MacTavish , G. Marsden , P. G. Martin , T. G. Martin , P. Mauskopf , C. B. Netterfield , L. Olmi , G. Patanchon , M. Rex , D. Scott , C. Semisch , N. Thomas , M. D. P. Truch , C. Tucker , G. S. Tucker , M. P. Viero , D. V. Wiebe

The Balloon-Borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope Observatory

The BLAST Observatory is a proposed superpressure balloon-borne polarimeter designed for a future ultra-long duration balloon campaign from Wanaka, New Zealand. To maximize scientific output while staying within the stringent superpressure…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-03 Ian Lowe , Gabriele Coppi , Peter A. R. Ade , Peter C. Ashton , Jason E. Austermann , James Beall , Susan Clark , Erin G. Cox , Mark J. Devlin , Simon Dicker , Bradley J. Dober , Valentina Fanfani , Laura M. Fissel , Nicholas Galitzki , Jiansong Gao , Brandon Hensley , Johannes Hubmayr , Steven Li , Zhi-Yun Li , Nathan P. Lourie , Peter G. Martin , Philip Mauskopf , Federico Nati , Giles Novak , Giampaolo Pisano , L. Javier Romualdez , Adrian Sinclair , Juan D. Soler , Carole Tucker , Michael Vissers , Jordan Wheeler , Paul A. Williams , Mario Zannoni

The EBEX Balloon Borne Experiment - Detectors and Readout

EBEX was a long-duration balloon-borne experiment to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background. The experiment had three frequency bands centered at 150, 250, and 410 GHz and was the first to use a kilo-pixel array of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-14 The EBEX Collaboration , Maximilian Abitbol , Asad M. Aboobaker , Peter Ade , Derek Araujo , François Aubin , Carlo Baccigalupi , Chaoyun Bao , Daniel Chapman , Joy Didier , Matt Dobbs , Stephen M. Feeney , Christopher Geach , Will Grainger , Shaul Hanany , Kyle Helson , Seth Hillbrand , Gene Hilton , Johannes Hubmayr , Kent Irwin , Andrew Jaffe , Bradley Johnson , Terry Jones , Jeff Klein , Andrei Korotkov , Adrian Lee , Lorne Levinson , Michele Limon , Kevin MacDermid , Amber D. Miller , Michael Milligan , Kate Raach , Britt Reichborn-Kjennerud , Carl Reintsema , Ilan Sagiv , Graeme Smecher , Gregory S. Tucker , Benjamin Westbrook , Karl Young , Kyle Zilic

Characterization, deployment, and in-flight performance of the BLAST-TNG cryogenic receiver

The Next Generation Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST-TNG) is a submillimeter polarimeter designed to map interstellar dust and galactic foregrounds at 250, 350, and 500 microns during a 24-day Antarctic flight.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-13 Ian Lowe , Peter A. R. Ade , Peter C. Ashton , Jason E. Austermann , Gabriele Coppi , Erin G. Cox , Mark J. Devlin , Bradley J. Dober , Valentina Fanfani , Laura M. Fissel , Nicholas Galitzki , Jiansong Gao , Samuel Gordon , Christopher E. Groppi , Gene C. Hilton , Johannes Hubmayr , Jeffrey Klein , Dale Li , Nathan P. Lourie , Hamdi Mani , Philip Mauskopf , Christopher McKenney , Federico Nati , Giles Novak , Giampaolo Pisano , L. Javier Romualdez , Juan D. Soler , Adrian Sinclair , Carole Tucker , Joel Ullom , Michael Vissers , Caleb Wheeler , Paul A. Williams

Development of readout electronics for POLARBEAR-2 Cosmic Microwave Background experiment

The readout of transition-edge sensor (TES) bolometers with a large multiplexing factor is key for the next generation Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiment, Polarbear-2, having 7,588 TES bolometers. To enable the large arrays, we…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 K. Hattori , Y. Akiba , K. Arnold , D. Barron , A. N. Bender , A. Cukierman , T. de Haan , M. Dobbs , T. Elleflot , M. Hasegawa , M. Hazumi , W. Holzapfel , Y. Hori , B. Keating , A. Kusaka , A. Lee , J. Montgomery , K. Rotermund , I. Shirley , A. Suzuki , N. Whitehorn

Thermal design and performance of the balloon-borne large aperture submillimeter telescope for polarimetry BLASTPol

We present the thermal model of the Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for Polarimetry (BLASTPol). This instrument was successfully flown in two circumpolar flights from McMurdo, Antarctica in 2010 and 2012. During these…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 J. D. Soler , P. A. R. Ade , F. E. Angilè , S. J. Benton , M. J. Devlin , B. Dober , L. M. Fissel , Y. Fukui , N. Galitzki , N. N. Gandilo , J. Klein , A. L. Korotkov , T. G. Matthews , L. Moncelsi , A. Mroczkowski , C. B. Netterfield , G. Novak , D. Nutter , E. Pascale , F. Poidevin , G. Savini , D. Scott , J. A. Shariff , N. E. Thomas , M. D. Truch , C. E. Tucker , G. S. Tucker , D. Ward-Thompson

Instrumental performance and results from testing of the BLAST-TNG receiver, submillimeter optics, and MKID arrays

Polarized thermal emission from interstellar dust grains can be used to map magnetic fields in star forming molecular clouds and the diffuse interstellar medium (ISM). The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for Polarimetry…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-22 Nicholas Galitzki , Peter Ade , Francesco E. Angile , Peter Ashton , Jason Austermann , Tashalee Billings , George Che , Hsiao-Mei Cho , Kristina Davis , Mark Devlin , Simon Dicker , Bradley J. Dober , Laura M. Fissel , Yasuo Fukui , Jiansong Gao , Samuel Gordon , Christopher E. Groppi , Seth Hillbrand , Gene C. Hilton , Johannes Hubmayr , Kent D. Irwin , Jeffrey Klein , Dale Li , Zhi-Yun Li , Nathan P. Lourie , Ian Lowe , Hamdi Mani , Peter G. Martin , Philip Mauskopf , Christopher McKenney , Federico Nati , Giles Novak , Enzo Pascale , Giampaolo Pisano , Fabio P. Santos , Douglas Scott , Adrian Sinclair , Juan D. Soler , Carole Tucker , Matthew Underhill , Michael Vissers , Paul Williams

Development of TRL5 Space Qualified Hardware for Tuning, Biasing, and Readout of Kilopixel TES Bolometer Arrays

The next generation of space-based mm-wave telescopes, such as JAXA's LiteBIRD mission, require focal planes with thousands of detectors in order to achieve their science goals. Digital frequency-domain multiplexing (dfmux) techniques allow…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-26 Graeme Smecher , Peter Cameron , Jean-Francois Cliche , Matt Dobbs , Joshua Montgomery

The EBEX Cryostat and Supporting Electronics

We describe the cryostat and supporting electronics for the EBEX experiment. EBEX is a balloon-borne polarimeter designed to measure the B-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background radiation. The instrument includes a 1.5 meter…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-20 Ilan Sagiv , Asad M. Aboobaker , Chaoyun Bao , Shaul Hanany , Terry Jones , Jeffrey Klein , Michael Milligan , Daniel E. Polsgrove , Kate Raach , Kyle Zilic , Andrei Korotkov , Gregory S. Tucker , Yuri Vinukurov , Tomotake Matsumura , Peter Ade , Will Grainger , Enzo Pascale , Daniel Chapman , Joy Didier , Seth Hillbrand , Britt Reichborn-Kjennerud , Michele Limon , Amber Miller , Andrew Jaffe , Amit Yadav , Matias Zaldarriaga , Nicolas Ponthieu , Matthieu Tristram , Julian Borrill , Christopher Cantalupo , Ted Kisner , Francois Aubin , Matt Dobbs , Kevin MacDermid , Gene Hilton , Johhannes Hubmayr , Kent Irwin , Carl Reintsema , Carlo Baccigalupi , Sam Leach , Bradley Johnson , Adrian Lee , Huan Tran , Lorne Levinson