Mark Devlin
University of
Pennsylvania
The BLAST telescope is designed to probe the submillimeter universe. It
searches for star formation in our galaxy and distant galaxies. I will discuss the first results from our December 2006-January 2007 flight in Antarctica. We obtained the first high-resolution, large area surveys of both the Milky-Way and high-redshift galaxies. The Galactic maps show thousands of pre-stellar cores. The extragalactic maps show thousands of high-redshift galaxies with high rates of star formation. From these data we learn about the evolution of our Galaxy and our Universe.
Friday, November 21st at 4:00 PM
Room L211, Technological Institute
Refreshments are served at 3:30 PM
