SCUBA-2: a 10,000 pixel submillimeter camera for the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope
Abstract
SCUBA-2 is an innovative 10,000 pixel submillimeter camera due to be delivered to the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope in late 2006. The camera is expected to revolutionize submillimeter astronomy in terms of the ability to carry out wide-field surveys to unprecedented depths addressing key questions relating to the origins of galaxies, stars and planets. This paper presents an update on the project with particular emphasis on the laboratory commissioning of the instrument. The assembly and integration will be described as well as the measured thermal performance of the instrument. A summary of the performance results will be presented from the TES bolometer arrays, which come complete with in-focal plane SQUID amplifiers and multiplexed readouts, and are cooled to 100mK by a liquid cryogen-free dilution refrigerator. Considerable emphasis has also been placed on the operating modes of the instrument and the common-user aspect of the user interface and data reduction pipeline. These areas will also be described in the paper.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0606338,
title = {SCUBA-2: a 10,000 pixel submillimeter camera for the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope},
author = {Wayne Holland and Michael MacIntosh and Alasdair Fairley and Dennis Kelly and David Montgomery and David Gostick and Eli Atad-Ettedgui and Maureen Ellis and Ian Robson and Matthew Hollister and Adam Woodcraft and Peter Ade and Ian Walker and Kent Irwin and Gene Hilton and William Duncan and Carl Reintsema and Anthony Walton and William Parkes and Camelia Dunare and Michel Fich and Jan Kycia and Mark Halpern and Douglas Scott and Andy Gibb and Janos Molnar and Ed Chapin and Dan Bintley and Simon Craig and Tomas Chylek and Tim Jenness and Frossie Economou and Gary Davis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0606338},
year = {2009}
}
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15 pages; in Proceedings of Millimeter and Submillimeter Detectors and Instrumentation, SPIE, in press