Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST)

BLAST incorporates a 2-m primary mirror with large-format bolometer arrays operating at 250, 350 and 500 microns. BLAST provides surveys from 0.8 to 200 deg2 at a resolution of 30, 42 and 60 arcseconds. The units of the HEALPix maps are MJy/sr.

Healpix maps made by D. Paradis.

References

'The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope: BLAST' by Pascale, E. et al. 2008, ApJ, 681, 400 http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008ApJ...681..400P

Maps

250 microns : BLAST_250_1_8192_partial.fits

350 microns : BLAST_350_1_8192_partial.fits

500 microns : BLAST_500_1_8192_partial.fits

BLAST 250 BLAST 350 BLAST 500

Uncertainty Maps (in MJy/sr)

250 microns : BLAST_250_SIGMA_final_1_8192_partial.fits

350 microns : BLAST_350_SIGMA_final_1_8192_partial.fits

500 microns : BLAST_500_SIGMA_final_1_8192_partial.fits

HiPS

BLAST HiPS are available in Aladin Collections/Image

For SIGMA HiPS, enter the following URLs in Aladin (“Files” then “Use directly a URL”): http://cade.irap.omp.eu/documents/Ancillary/4Aladin/BLAST_250_SIGMA http://cade.irap.omp.eu/documents/Ancillary/4Aladin/BLAST_350_SIGMA http://cade.irap.omp.eu/documents/Ancillary/4Aladin/BLAST_500_SIGMA

OR

unzip the directory and put it directly in an Aladin window to display the map

Uncertainty at 250 microns : BLAST_250_SIGMA.zip

Uncertainty at 350 microns : BLAST_350_SIGMA.zip

Uncertainty at 500 microns : BLAST_500_SIGMA.zip

Original WCS Data

http://www.cadc-ccda.hia-iha.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/en/search/?collection=BLAST&noexec=true

Version History

Project Website

http://blastexperiment.info/projects/blast/index.php