气球载大孔径亚毫米望远镜（BLAST）2006：定标与飞行性能
天体物理仪器与方法
2009-12-10 v2
摘要
气球载大孔径亚毫米望远镜（BLAST）在2006年12月南极上空的一次250小时飞行中成功运行（BLAST06）。作为定标和指向程序的一部分，红超巨星VY CMa被观测并用作主定标源。讨论了BLAST06整体定标程序的细节。在250、350和500微米波段，1σ绝对定标精度分别达到10%、12%和13%。各波段间的误差高度相关，导致250-500微米连续谱形状的推导误差大大降低。对于36、42和60角秒的波束，整体指向误差小于5角秒（均方根）。讨论了光学系统和指向系统的性能。
引用
@article{arxiv.0904.1202,
title = {The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) 2006: Calibration and Flight Performance},
author = {Matthew D. P. Truch and Peter A. R. Ade and James J. Bock and Edward L. Chapin and Mark J. Devlin and Simon R. Dicker and Matthew Griffin and Joshua O. Gundersen and Mark Halpern and Peter C. Hargrave and David H. Hughes and Jeff Klein and Gaelen Marsden and Peter G. Martin and Philip Mauskopf and Lorenzo Moncelsi and Calvin B. Netterfield and Luca Olmi and Enzo Pascale and Guillaume Patanchon and Marie Rex and Douglas Scott and Christopher Semisch and Nicholas E. Thomas and Carole Tucker and Gregory S. Tucker and Marco P. Viero and Donald V. Wiebe},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0904.1202},
year = {2009}
}
备注
Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal. Maps available at http://blastexperiment.info/