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Image Service:
Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope

Short name: BLAST IVOA Identifier: ivo://irsa.ipac/BLAST/ImagesPublisher: NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archiveivo://irsa.ipac/IRSA[Pub. ID] More Info: https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/data/BLAST VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.	Status: active Registered: 2014 Oct 28 17:31:00Z
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Description

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.

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About the Resource Providers

This section describes who is responsible for this resource

Publisher: NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archiveivo://irsa.ipac/IRSA[Pub. ID]

Creator: BLAST team

Contact Information:

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Email: irsasupport at ipac.caltech.edu
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Status of This Resource

This section provides some status information: the resource version, availability, and relevant dates.

Version: n/a
Availability: This is an active resource.

This service apparently provides only public data

Relevant dates for this Resource:

Update: 2011 Feb 24

This resource was registered on: 2014 Oct 28 17:31:00Z
This resource description was last updated on: 2017 Mar 16 01:00:00Z

What This Resource is About

This section describes what the resource is, what it contains, and how it might be relevant.

Resource Class: CatalogService: This resource is a service that provides access to data (specifically, images). With this type of service, you can search for data by issuing a query, and information about available data is returned as a table.

Resource type keywords: Archive	Subject keywords: submillimeter survey
Intended audience or use: Research: This resource provides information appropriate for supporting scientific research.
More Info: https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/data/BLAST

	Data Coverage Information
	This section describes the data's coverage over the sky, frequency, and time. Wavebands covered: Millimeter

Available Service Interfaces

Simple Image AccessXX

This is a standard IVOA service used to search for images from this resource that overlap with a specified region of the sky.

VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.
Available endpoints for the standard interface:

https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/Atlas/nph-atlas?mission=BLAST&hdr_location=%5CBLASTDataPath%5C&SIAP_ACTIVE=1&collection_desc=BLAST&X(version compatible)

Image service type: Pointed: pre-computed non-survey images will be returned.
Maximum query region accepted: longitude: 1.0 degrees; latitude: 1.0 degrees
Maximum region size returned: longitude: 15.3 degrees; latitude: 8 degrees
Maximum image size returned: 5500 X 2880 pixels
Maximum image size returned: 66 MB
Maximum number of matching records returned: 336

	Custom Service
	This is service that does not comply with any IVOA standard but instead provides access to special capabilities specific to this resource. VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource. Available endpoints for this service interface: Interactive web page: https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/data/BLAST

Developed with the support of the National Science Foundation
under Cooperative Agreement AST0122449 with the Johns Hopkins University
The NAVO project is a member of the International Virtual Observatory Alliance

This NAVO Application is hosted by the Space Telescope Science Institute

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