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Calibrated data for 143 flat-spectrum extragalactic radio sources are presented at a wavelength of 850 microns covering a five-year period from April 2000. The data, obtained at the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope using the SCUBA camera in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 T. Jenness , E. I. Robson , J. A. Stevens

Using the 850 micron SCUBA camera on the JCMT and a scanning technique different from other sub-mm surveys, we have obtained a 125 square arcminute map centered on the Hubble Deep Field. The one-sigma sensitivity to point sources is roughly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Colin Borys , Scott Chapman , Mark Halpern , Douglas Scott

The first observations to detect a population of distant galaxies directly in the submillimetre waveband have recently been made using the new Submillimetre Common-User Bolometer Array (SCUBA) on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT).…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 A W Blain , R J Ivison , Ian Smail

This white paper gives a brief summary of Galactic continuum surveys with the next generation 850 micron camera at the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) in the next decade. This new camera will have mapping speeds at least 10-20 times…

We present 850$\mu$m observations of a sample of 8 nearby spiral galaxies, made using the SCUBA-2 camera on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) as part of the JCMT Nearby Galaxies Legacy Survey (NGLS). We corrected our data for the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-15 Kate Pattle , Walter Gear , Christine D. Wilson

We present deep observations at 450 um and 850 um in the Extended Groth Strip field taken with the SCUBA-2 camera mounted on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope as part of the deep SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey (S2CLS), achieving a central…

We present the results of a multi-wavelength study of the 19 most significant sub-mm sources detected in the SCUBA 8-mJy survey. As described in Scott et al. (2001), this survey covers ~260 arcmin^2 using the sub-millimetre camera SCUBA, to…

We present the deepest 850 $\mu$m map of the SSA22 field to date, utilizing a combination of new and archival observations taken with SCUBA-2, mounted at the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT). The mapped area covers an effective region…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-11 Xin Zeng , Yiping Ao , Yuheng Zhang

We present results of the first systematic search for submillimetre continuum emission from z=2, radio-quiet, optically-luminous quasars, using the SCUBA/JCMT. We have observed a homogeneous sample of 57 quasars in the redshift range…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Robert S. Priddey , Kate G. Isaak , Richard G. McMahon , Alain Omont

We present the first results of a sub-millimeter survey of distant clusters using the new Sub-mm Common-User Bolometer Array (SCUBA) on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope. We have mapped fields in two massive, concentrated clusters, A370 at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Ian Smail , R. J. Ivison , A. W. Blain

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…

Observations of the Crab Nebula at 850 micron made with the "Submillimetre Common-User Bolometer Array" (SCUBA) on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope are presented. A variety of chop-throws and scanning directions was used in these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. A. Green

We present 850um imaging of the XMM-LSS field observed for 170 hours as part of the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope SCUBA-2 Large eXtragalactic Survey (S2LXS). S2LXS XMM-LSS maps an area of 9 square degrees, reaching a moderate depth of…

We investigate the emission of sub-millimetre-wave radiation from galaxies in a 165 square arcminute region surrounding the Hubble Deep Field North. The data were obtained from dedicated observing runs from our group and others using the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Borys , S. C. Chapman , M. Halpern , D. Scott

The SCUBA submillimetre camera has opened up new possibilities for tracing the evolution of active star formation in dusty galaxies to high redshift, with profound implications for our understanding of the star formation history of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert G. Mann , The UK Submillimetre Survey Consortium

Observational cosmology employing optical surveys often require precise flux calibration. In this context we present SNIFS Calibration Apparatus (SCALA), a flux calibration system developed for the SuperNova Integral Field Spectrograph…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-04 Simona Lombardo , Greg Aldering , Akos Hoffmann , Marek Kowalski , Daniel Kuesters , Klaus Reif , Mickael Rigault

We present deep 450um and 850um observations of a large, uniformly covered 394arcmin^2 area in the COSMOS field obtained with the SCUBA-2 instrument on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT). We achieve root-mean-square noise values of…

We present the first release of the data and compact-source catalogue for the JCMT Large Program SCUBA-2 Continuum Observations of Pre-protostellar Evolution (SCOPE). SCOPE consists of 850-um continuum observations of 1235 Planck Galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-06 D. J. Eden , Tie Liu , Kee-Tae Kim , S. -Y. Liu , K. Tatematsu , J. Di Francesco , K. Wang , Y. Wu , M. A. Thompson , G. A. Fuller , Di Li , I. Ristorcelli , Sung-ju Kang , N. Hirano , D. Johnstone , Y. Lin , J. H. He , P. M. Koch , Patricio Sanhueza , S. -L. Qin , Q. Zhang , P. F. Goldsmith , N. J. Evans , J. Yuan , C. -P. Zhang , G. J. White , Minho Choi , Chang Won Lee , L. V. Toth , S. Mairs , H. -W. Yi , M. Tang , A. Soam , N. Peretto , M. R. Samal , M. Fich , H. Parsons , J. Malinen , G. J. Bendo , A. Rivera-Ingraham , H. -L. Liu , J. Wouterloot , P. S. Li , L. Qian , J. Rawlings , M. G. Rawlings , S. Feng , B. Wang , Dalei Li , M. Liu , G. Luo , A. P. Marston , K. M. Pattle , V. -M. Pelkonen , A. J. Rigby , S. Zahorecz , G. Zhang , R. Bogner , Y. Aikawa , S. Akhter , D. Alina , G. Bell , J. -P. Bernard , A. Blain , L. Bronfman , D. -Y. Byun , S. Chapman , H. -R. Chen , M. Chen , W. -P. Chen , X. Chen , Xuepeng Chen , A. Chrysostomou , Y. -H. Chu , E. J. Chung , D. Cornu , G. Cosentino , M. R. Cunningham , K. Demyk , E. Drabek-Maunder , Y. Doi , C. Eswaraiah , E. Falgarone , O. Feher , H. Fraser , P. Friberg , G. Garay , J. X. Ge , W. K. Gear , J. Greaves , X. Guan , L. Harvey-Smith , T. Hasegawa , Y. He , C. Henkel , T. Hirota , W. Holland , A. Hughes , E. Jarken , T. -G. Ji , I. Jimenez-Serra , Miju Kang , K. S. Kawabata , Gwanjeong Kim , Jungha Kim , Jongsoo Kim , S. Kim , B. -C. Koo , Woojin Kwon , Y. -J. Kuan , K. M. Lacaille , S. -P. Lai , C. F. Lee , J. E. Lee , Y. -U. Lee , H. Li , N. Lo , J. A. P. Lopez , X. Lu , A. -R. Lyo , D. Mardones , P. McGehee , F. Meng , L. Montier , J. Montillaud , T. J. T. Moore , O. Morata , G. H. Moriarty-Schieven , S. Ohashi , S. Pak , Geumsook Park , R. Paladini , G. Pech , K. Qiu , Z. -Y. Ren , J. Richer , T. Sakai , H. Shang , H. Shinnaga , D. Stamatellos , Y. -W. Tang , A. Traficante , C. Vastel , S. Viti , A. Walsh , H. Wang , J. Wang , D. Ward-Thompson , A. Whitworth , C. D. Wilson , Y. Xu , J. Yang , Y. -L. Yuan , L. Yuan , A. Zavagno , C. Zhang , G. Zhang , H. -W. Zhang , C. Zhou , J. Zhou. L. Zhu , P. Zuo