SCUBA: A common-user submillimetre camera operating on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope
Abstract
SCUBA, the Submillimetre Common-User Bolometer Array, built by the Royal Observatory Edinburgh for the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, is the most versatile and powerful of a new generation of submillimetre cameras. It combines a sensitive dual-waveband imaging array with a three-band photometer, and is sky-background limited by the emission from the Mauna Kea atmosphere at all observing wavelengths from 350 microns to 2 mm. The increased sensitivity and array size mean that SCUBA maps close to 10,000 times faster than its single-pixel predecessor (UKT14). SCUBA is a facility instrument, open to the world community of users, and is provided with a high level of user support. We give an overview of the instrument, describe the observing modes and user interface, performance figures on the telescope, and present a sample of the exciting new results that have revolutionised submillimetre astronomy.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9809122,
title = {SCUBA: A common-user submillimetre camera operating on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope},
author = {Wayne S. Holland and E. I. Robson and Walter K. Gear and Colin R. Cunningham and John F. Lightfoot and Tim Jenness and Rob J. Ivison and Jason A. Stevens and Peter A. R. Ade and M. J. Griffin and William D. Duncan and J. A. Murphy and David A. Naylor},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9809122},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
15 pages, 15 figures, accepted for Monthly Notices of RAS