TY - JOUR
T1 - Blast observations of the south ecliptic pole field
T2 - Number counts and source catalogs
AU - Valiante, Elisabetta
AU - Ade, Peter A.R.
AU - Bock, James J.
AU - Braglia, Filiberto G.
AU - Chapin, Edward L.
AU - Devlin, Mark J.
AU - Griffin, Matthew
AU - Gundersen, Joshua O.
AU - Halpern, Mark
AU - HargraveHargrave, Peter C.
AU - Hughes, David H.
AU - Klein, Jeff
AU - Marsden, Gaelen
AU - Mauskopf, Philip
AU - Netterfield, Calvin B.
AU - Olmi, Luca
AU - Pascale, Enzo
AU - Patanchon, Guillaume
AU - Rex, Marie
AU - Scott, Douglas
AU - Scott, Kimberly
AU - Semisch, Christopher
AU - Stabenau, Hans
AU - Thomas, Nicholas
AU - Truch, Matthew D.P.
AU - Tucker, Carole
AU - Tucker, Gregory S.
AU - Viero, Marco P.
PY - 2010/12
Y1 - 2010/12
N2 - We present results from a survey carried out by the Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) on a 9 deg2 field near the South Ecliptic Pole at 250, 350, and 500μm. The median 1s depths of the maps are 36.0, 26.4, and 18.4mJy, respectively. We apply a statistical method to estimate submillimeter galaxy number counts and find that they are in agreement with other measurements made with the same instrument and with the more recent results from Herschel/SPIRE. Thanks to the large field observed, the new measurements give additional constraints on the bright end of the counts.We identify 132, 89, and 61 sources with S/N ≥ 4 at 250, 350, 500μm, respectively and provide a multi-wavelength combined catalog of 232 sources with a significance ≥ 4σ in at least one BLAST band. The new BLAST maps and catalogs are available publicly at http://blastexperiment.info.
AB - We present results from a survey carried out by the Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) on a 9 deg2 field near the South Ecliptic Pole at 250, 350, and 500μm. The median 1s depths of the maps are 36.0, 26.4, and 18.4mJy, respectively. We apply a statistical method to estimate submillimeter galaxy number counts and find that they are in agreement with other measurements made with the same instrument and with the more recent results from Herschel/SPIRE. Thanks to the large field observed, the new measurements give additional constraints on the bright end of the counts.We identify 132, 89, and 61 sources with S/N ≥ 4 at 250, 350, 500μm, respectively and provide a multi-wavelength combined catalog of 232 sources with a significance ≥ 4σ in at least one BLAST band. The new BLAST maps and catalogs are available publicly at http://blastexperiment.info.
KW - Cosmology: observations
KW - Galaxies: statistics
KW - Methods: data analysis
KW - Submillimeter: galaxies
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U2 - 10.1088/0067-0049/191/2/222
DO - 10.1088/0067-0049/191/2/222
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:78650299484
SN - 0067-0049
VL - 191
SP - 222
EP - 231
JO - Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series
JF - Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series
IS - 2
ER -