BLAST-Pol (Balloon-borne Large Aperture Sub-millimeter Telescope for Polarization)

Sitio de lanzamiento: Williams Field, Estación McMurdo, Antartida  
Hora lanzamiento: 18:58 utc
Lanzamiento y operación del globo a cargo de: Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility (CSBF)
Globo: Globo de Presión Cero  
Nº de vuelo: 638N

• BLAST website University of Pennsylvania
• Attitude determination for balloon-borne experiments SPIE Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes V, June 23, 2014
• BLASTbus electronics: general-purpose readout and control for balloon-borne experiments SPIE Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes V, June 23, 2014
• Comparing Submillimeter Polarized Emission with Near-infrared Polarization of Background Stars for the Vela C Molecular Cloud The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 837, Number 2
• First Observation of the Submillimeter Polarization Spectrum in a Translucent Molecular Cloud The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 857, Issue 1
• In Search of an Imprint of Magnetization in the Balloon-borne Observations of the Polarized Dust Emission from Molecular Clouds Ph.D Thesis by Juan Diego Soler, University of Toronto (2013)
• Mapping Submillimetre Polarization with BLASTPol Ph.D Thesis by Steven James Benton, University of Toronto (2015)
• Polarimetry from the Stratosphere with Spider and BLASTPol Ph.D Thesis by Jamil Aly Shariffl, University of Toronto (2015)
• Probing Interstellar Grain Alignment with Balloon-borne Submillimeter Observations Ph.D Thesis by Natalie Gandilo, University of Toronto (2015)
• Probing the Role Played by Magnetic Fields in Star Formation with BLASTPol Ph.D Thesis by Laura Marion Fissel, University of Toronto (2013)
• Submillimeter Polarization Spectrum in the Vela C Molecular Cloud The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 824, Number 2
• Submillimeter Polarization Spectrum of the Carina Nebula Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies (Via ArXiv)
• The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for Polarimetry-BLASTPol: Performance and results from the 2012 Antarctic flight Presented at SPIE Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes V, June 23, 2014
• The next-generation BLASTPol experiment SPIE Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes V, June 23, 2014.
• Thermal design and performance of the balloon-borne large aperture submillimeter telescope for polarimetry BLASTPol SPIE Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes V, June 23, 2014