Bradley Dober, Peter A. R. Ade, Peter Ashton, Francesco E. Angilè, James A. Beall, Dan Becker, Kristi J. Bradford, George Che, Hsiao-Mei Cho, Mark J. Devlin, La… 展开作者
Bradley Dober, Peter A. R. Ade, Peter Ashton, Francesco E. Angilè, James A. Beall, Dan Becker, Kristi J. Bradford, George Che, Hsiao-Mei Cho, Mark J. Devlin, Laura M. Fissel, Yasuo Fukui, Nicholas Galitzki, Jiansong Gao, Christopher E. Groppi, Seth Hillbrand, Gene C. Hilton, Johannes Hubmayr, Kent D. Irwin, Jeffrey Klein, Jeff Van Lanen, Dale Li, Zhi-Yun Li, Nathan P. Lourie, Hamdi Mani, Peter G. Martin, Philip Mauskopf, Fumitaka Nakamura, Giles Novak, David P. Pappas, Enzo Pascale, Fabio P. Santos, Giorgio Savini, Douglas Scott, Sara Stanchfield, Joel N. Ullom, Matthew Underhill, Michael R. Vissers, Derek Ward-Thompson
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12 pages, 6 figures. Presented at SPIE Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes V, June 23, 2014. To be published in Proceedings of SPIE Volume 9145
The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for Polarimetry (BLASTPol) is a suborbital mapping experiment designed to study the role magnetic fields play in star formation. BLASTPol has had two science flights from McMurdo Station, Antarctica in 2010 and 2012. These flights have produced thousands of polarization vectors at 250, 350 and 500 microns in several molecular cloud targets. We present the design, specifications, and progress towards the next-generation BLASTPol experiment (BLAST-TNG). BLAST-TNG will fly a 40% larger diameter primary mirror, with almost 8 times the number of polarization-sensitive detectors resulting in a factor of 16 increase in mapping speed. With a spatial resolution of 22 arcseconds and four times the field of view of BLASTPol, BLAST-TNG will bridge the angular scales between Planck's low resolution all-sky maps and ALMA's ultra-high resolution narrow fields. The new receiver has a larger cryogenics volume, allowing for a 28 day hold time. BLAST-TNG employs three arrays of Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (MKIDs) with 30% fractional bandwidth at 250, 350 and 500 microns. In this paper, we will present the new BLAST-TNG instrument and science objectives.
A next generation upgraded observing platform for the automated Birmingham Solar Oscillations Network (BiSON)
伯明翰太阳振荡网络（英语：Birmingham Solar Oscillations Network，简称BiSON）是一个由地面自动望远镜组成的观测太阳振荡的网络。该网络自1990年代初以来一直在运作。我们目前的开发工作的原型下一代观测平台，BiSON：NG，几乎完全基于廉价的现成的组件，并在占地面积减少到可以廉价地安装在现有建筑物的屋顶上的大小。持续开发对于确保BiSON等自动化网络能够很好地观察下一个太阳周期及以后至关重要。
