2 BLAST ivo://irsa.ipac/BLAST/Images NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive BLAST team 2011-02-24 IRSA Support Team

irsasupport@ipac.caltech.edu submillimeter survey The Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Sub-millimeter Telescope (BLAST) is a 2-m telescope that conducted the first wide-area (> many square degrees) sub-mm surveys at wavelengths 250--500 um. Built and flown by an international collaboration headed by the University of Pennsylvania (P.I. Mark Devlin), the telescope uses a prototype of the SPIRE camera for the Herschel satellite. Despite parts of this band being available to ground-based telescopes from high-altitude sites such as Mauna Kea (e.g. JCMT) and Chile (e.g. future ALMA site), BLAST surveys are currently un-matched in sensitivity and area given the comparatively negligible atmospheric water vapour at 38 km altitude. https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/data/BLAST/overview.html Archive Research 2 https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/SIA?COLLECTION=blast& Pointed 1.0 1.0 15.3 8 5500 66363840 336 233.737985 23.503187 2 https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/data/BLAST Millimeter