In-flight performance of the BLAST-TNG telescope platform

Gabriele Coppi; Peter A. R. Ade; Peter C. Ashton; Jason E. Austermann; Erin G. Cox; Mark J. Devlin; Bradley J. Dober; Valentina Fanfani; Laura M. Fissel; Nicholas B. Galitzki; Jiansong Gao; Samuel Gordon; Christopher E. Groppi; Gene C. Hilton; Johannes Hubmayr; Jeffrey Klein; Dale Li; Ian Lowe; Nathan P. Lourie; Christopher McKinney; Hamdi Mani; Philip D. Mauskopf; Federico Nati; Giles Novak; Giampaolo Pisano; Javier L. Romualdez; Adrian K. Sinclair; Juan D. Soler; Carole Tucker; Joel Ullom; Michael Vissers; Caleb Wheeler; Paul A. Williams

doi:10.1117/12.2560849

13 December 2020 In-flight performance of the BLAST-TNG telescope platform

Gabriele Coppi, Peter A. R. Ade, Peter C. Ashton, Jason E. Austermann, Erin G. Cox, Mark J. Devlin, Bradley J. Dober, Valentina Fanfani, Laura M. Fissel, Nicholas B. Galitzki, Jiansong Gao, Samuel Gordon, Christopher E. Groppi, Gene C. Hilton, Johannes Hubmayr, Jeffrey Klein, Dale Li, Ian Lowe, Nathan P. Lourie, Christopher McKinney, Hamdi Mani, Philip D. Mauskopf, Federico Nati, Giles Novak, Giampaolo Pisano, Javier L. Romualdez, Adrian K. Sinclair, Juan D. Soler, Carole Tucker, Joel Ullom, Michael Vissers, Caleb Wheeler, Paul A. Williams

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Proceedings Volume 11445, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes VIII; 1144526 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2560849
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2020, Online Only

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The Next Generation Balloon-Borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST-TNG) was a unique instrument for characterizing the polarized submillimeter sky at high-angular resolution. BLAST-TNG flew from the Long Duration Balloon Facility in Antarctica in January 2020. Despite the short flight duration, the instrument worked very well and is providing significant information about each subsystem that will be invaluable for future balloon missions. In this contribution, we discuss the performance of telescope and gondola.

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Gabriele Coppi, Peter A. R. Ade, Peter C. Ashton, Jason E. Austermann, Erin G. Cox, Mark J. Devlin, Bradley J. Dober, Valentina Fanfani, Laura M. Fissel, Nicholas B. Galitzki, Jiansong Gao, Samuel Gordon, Christopher E. Groppi, Gene C. Hilton, Johannes Hubmayr, Jeffrey Klein, Dale Li, Ian Lowe, Nathan P. Lourie, Christopher McKinney, Hamdi Mani, Philip D. Mauskopf, Federico Nati, Giles Novak, Giampaolo Pisano, Javier L. Romualdez, Adrian K. Sinclair, Juan D. Soler, Carole Tucker, Joel Ullom, Michael Vissers, Caleb Wheeler, and Paul A. Williams "In-flight performance of the BLAST-TNG telescope platform", Proc. SPIE 11445, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes VIII, 1144526 (13 December 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2560849

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