List of publications on BLAST-TNG and its proposed successor BLAST Observatory
Coppi, Gabriele et al., 2024, “The BLAST Observatory: A Sensitivity Study for Far-IR Balloon-borne Polarimeters”, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. Volume 136, ID 035003, arXiv.org:2401.14370
Lowe, Ian, et al., 2020, “The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope Observatory”, Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 11445, id. 114457A, archiv.org:2012.01376
Coppi, Gabriele, et al., “In-flight performance of the BLAST-TNG telescope platform”, Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 11445, id. 1144526, archiv.org:2012.01039
Lowe, Ian, et al., 2020, “Characterization, deployment, and in-flight performance of the BLAST-TNG cryogenic receiver”, Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 11453, id. 1145304, archiv.org:2012.01372
Gordon, Sam, et al. 2020, “Preflight Detector Characterization of BLAST-TNG“, Journal of Low Temperature Physics, Volume 200, Issue 5-6, p.400-406, archiv.org:1808.08489
Lourie, Nathan et al., 2018, “Design and characterization of a balloon-borne diffraction-limited submillimeter telescope platform for BLAST-TNG”, Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 10700, id. 1070022, archiv.org:1808.08597
Dober, Bradley et al., 2016, “Optical Demonstration of THz, Dual-Polarization Sensitive Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors”, Journal of Low Temperature Physics, Volume 184, Issue 1-2, pp. 173-179, arXiv.org:1603.02963
Galitzki, Nicholas et al., 2016, “Instrumental performance and results from testing of the BLAST-TNG receiver, submillimeter optics, and MKID arrays”, Proceedings of SPIE 2016, 9914, arxiv:1608.05456
Gordon, Samuel et al., 2016, “An Open Source, FPGA-based LeKID readout for BLAST-TNG: Pre-flight Results”, Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation, Volume 5, Issue 4, id. 1641003, arXiv.org:1611.05400
Hubmayr, Johannes, et al., 2015, “Photon-noise limited sensitivity in titanium nitride kinetic inductance detectors”, Applied Physics Letters, Vol 106, Issue 7, id.073505, arXiv.org:1406.4010
Dober, Bradley, et al., 2014, “The next-generation BLASTPol experiment”, Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 9153, id. 91530H, arXiv.org:1407.3756
Galitzki, Nicholas et al., 2014, “The Next Generation BLAST Experiment”, Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation, Volume 3, Issue 2, arXiv.org:1409.7084
Refereed papers presenting scientific results from BLASTPol
Matthews, T. G., et al. 2014, Lupus I Observations from the 2010 Flight of the Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for Polarimetry, Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 784, p. 116
Poidevin, F., et al. 2014, Comparison of Prestellar Core Elongations and Large-scale Molecular Cloud Structures in the Lupus I Region, Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 791, p. 43
Fissel, L. M., et al. 2016, Balloon-Borne Submillimeter Polarimetry of the Vela C Molecular Cloud: Systematic Dependence of Polarization Fraction on Column Density and Local Polarization-Angle Dispersion, Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 824, p. 134
Gandilo, N., et al. 2016, Submillimeter Polarization Spectrum in the Vela C Molecular Cloud, Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 824, p. 84
Santos, F. P., et al. 2017, Comparing Submillimeter Polarized Emission with Near-Infared Polarization of Background Stars for the the Vela C Molecular Cloud, Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 837, article 161
Soler, J. D., et al. 2017, The relation between the column density structures and the magnetic field orientation in the Vela C molecular complex, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Vol. 603, article A64
Ashton, P. C., et al. 2018, 64. First observation of the submillimeter polarization spectrum in a translucent molecular cloud, Astrophysical Journal, 857:10
Shariff, J. A., et al. 2019, Submillimeter Polarization Spectrum of the Carina Nebula, Astrophysical Journal, 872:197
Fissel, L. M., et al. 2019, Relative Alignment Between the Magnetic Field and Molecular Gas Structure in the Vela C Giant Molecular Cloud using Low- and High-density Tracers, Astrophysical Journal, 878:110
Note that data files for BLASTPol papers based on data from the 2012 flight can be obtained from Professor Laura Fissel of Queens University (laura.fissel@queensu.ca).
