BLAST-TNG Instrumentation
BLAST-TNG consists of a 2.5m Cassegrain telescope with three microwave kinetic inductance detector (MKID) arrays operating over 30% bandwidths centered on 250, 350, and 500 μm, which have 1836, 938, 544 detectors with diffraction limited resolution of 25”, 35”, and 50”, respectively.
A description of each of the major systems can be found in the links below. More detailed information can be found in the papers listed under the publications tab above.
