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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“. The units of the HEALPix maps are Mjy/sr.

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.fits

350 microns : BLAST_350_1_8192.fits

500 microns : BLAST_500_1_8192.fits

BLAST 250 BLAST 350 BLAST 500

Uncertainty Maps (in MJy/sr)

250 microns : BLAST_250_SIGMA_final_1_8192.fits

350 microns : BLAST_350_SIGMA_final_1_8192.fits

500 microns : BLAST_500_SIGMA_final_1_8192.fits

Original WCS Data

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