The SCUBA-2 "All-Sky" Survey
Abstract
The sub-millimetre wavelength regime is perhaps the most poorly explored over large areas of the sky, despite the considerable effort that has been expended in making deep maps over small regions. As a consequence the properties of the sub-millimetre sky as a whole, and of rare bright objects in particular, remains largely unknown. Here we describe a forthcoming survey (the SCUBA-2 ``All-Sky'' Survey, or SASSy) designed to address this issue by making a large-area map of approximately one-fifth of the sky visible from the JCMT (4800 square degrees) down to a 1 sigma noise level of 30 mJy/beam. This map forms the pilot for a much larger survey, which will potentially map the remaining sky visible from the JCMT, with the region also visible to ALMA as a priority. SASSy has been awarded 500 hours for the 4800 square degree pilot phase and will commence after the commissioning of SCUBA-2, expected in early 2008.
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@article{arxiv.0704.3202,
title = {The SCUBA-2 "All-Sky" Survey},
author = {M. A. Thompson and S. Serjeant and T. Jenness and D. Scott and M. Ashdown and C. Brunt and H. Butner and E. Chapin and A. C. Chrysostomou and J. S. Clark and D. Clements and J. L. Collett and K. Coppin and I. M. Coulson and W. R. F. Dent and F. Economou and A. Evans and P. Friberg and G. A. Fuller and A. G. Gibb and J. Greaves and J. Hatchell and W. S. Holland and M. Hudson and R. J. Ivison and A. Jaffe and G. Joncas and H. R. A. Jones and J. H. Knapen and J. Leech and R. Mann and H. E. Matthews and T. J. T. Moore and A. Mortier and M. Negrello and D. Nutter and M. P. Pestalozzi and A. Pope and J. Richer and R. Shipman and J. S. Urquhart and M. Vaccari and L. Van Waerbeke and S. Viti and B. Weferling and G. J. White and J. Wouterloot and M. Zhu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0704.3202},
year = {2007}
}