The Balloon-Borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope Observatory

no code implementations • 2 Dec 2020 • 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 BLAST Observatory is a proposed superpressure balloon-borne polarimeter designed for a future ultra-long duration balloon campaign from Wanaka, New Zealand.

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

Resolved spectral variations of the centimetre-wavelength continuum from the rho Oph W photo-dissociation-region

no code implementations • 1 Oct 2020 • Simon Casassus, Matias Vidal, Carla Arce-Tord, Clive Dickinson, Glenn J. White, Michael Burton, Balthasar Indermuehle, Brandon Hensley

The EME is particularly bright in the regions of the rho Ophiuchi molecular cloud (rho Oph) that surround the earliest type star in the complex, HD 147889, where the peak signal stems from the filament known as the rho Oph-W PDR.

Image Generation Astrophysics of Galaxies