Abstract
Advances in bolometric detector technology over the past decade have allowed submillimeter wavelength measurements to contribute important data to some of the most challenging questions in observational cosmology. The availability of large format bolometer arrays will provide observations with unprecedented image fidelity. The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) will be one of the first experiments to make full use of this new capability. The high altitude (≈ 35 km) of the balloon platform allows for high-sensitivity measurements in the 250, 350 and 500 μm bands with a total of 260 detectors.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 05 |
Pages (from-to) | 42-54 |
Number of pages | 13 |
Journal | Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering |
Volume | 5498 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2004 |
Event | Millimeter and Submillimeter Detectors for Astronomy II - Glasgow, United Kingdom Duration: Jun 23 2004 → Jun 25 2004 |
Keywords
- Bolometer array
- Detectors
- Galaxy evolution
- High-redshift
- Submillimeter
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Computer Science Applications
- Applied Mathematics
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering