Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Dec 2007
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007aas...21111607m&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #211, #116.07; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 39, p.945
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST), imaging the Galactic plane in a new spectral window (250, 350, 500 microns), reveals a stunning complexity of the interstellar medium in star-forming regions like Cyg X. BLAST detects the cool dust emission from previously-known protostars, and with unique spectral coverage near the peak of the spectral energy distribution tightly constrains the temperature. But BLAST also sees dust so cold that its presence is missed even in far-infrared emission, including structures such as infrared dark clouds. Unlike surveys from the ground at slightly longer wavelengths, mapping with BLAST maps are not heavily spatially filtered, so that the hierarchy of larger-scale cold structures in the embedding molecular clouds is captured as well. These BLAST surveys provide striking realizations of the great potential anticipated for the submillimeter imaging to be carried out using the SPIRE camera on the Herschel Space Observatory.
Blast Collaboration
Martin Peter G.
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